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Melek Ortabasi started the topic CFP: D’Annunzio as World Literature (MLA Symposium) in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 1 month, 4 weeks agoHi everyone,
From a colleague. If interested, please contact Elisa.Segnini@glasgow.ac.uk
We are organizing a project titled ‘D’Annunzio as World Literature’, which includes a panel at the MLA symposium in Glasgow (June 17-19 2021, https://symposium.mla.org/glasgow/being-hospitable/?utm_campaign=symposiumsubjuly20&utm_medium=email&utm_sour…[Read more]
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Christopher Hill deposited Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form in the group
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 1 month, 4 weeks agoFigures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form overturns Eurocentric genealogies and globalizing generalizations about “world literature” by examining the complex, contradictory history of naturalist fiction. Christopher Laing Hill traces the history of naturalist fiction from its emergence in France in the 1860s through its spr…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic CFP: Multisensory Dissent & Alliance Building – Society of Sinophone Studies in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 2 months agoCall For Papers: https://www.sinophonestudies.org/cfp
The Inaugural Biennial Conference of the Society of Sinophone Studies
Multisensory Dissent & Alliance Building
Friday-Saturday, April 23-24, 2021
University of Southern California*
Los Angeles, CA
The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought disproportionately negative effects on…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic MLA Toronto 2021 CFP: Archipelagic Studies in Asian Am & SE Asian Lit in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 6 months, 2 weeks ago2) Archipelagic Studies in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature
We invite papers focused on the archipelagic relations between Asian American and South East Asian literary studies, and especially attuned to migration, environment, settler colonialism, and radical friction. Please submit 300-word abstract and 1-page CV.Deadline for…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic MLA Toronto 2020 CFP: Authoritarianism & SE Asia in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 6 months, 2 weeks agoCFP: “Authoritarianism and Southeast Asia”
Modern Language Association Annual Convention
January 7–10, 2021, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Presidential Theme: “Persistence”
The recent prominence of a global “New Right” has upended the progressivist teleology that, at the end of the Cold War, located the political and economic regime of the…[Read more]
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Tiffany Yun-Chu Tsai started the topic CFP: The Horror of Capitalist Modernity: the Vampire, Zombie, and Cannibal in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 6 months, 2 weeks agoThe Horror of Capitalist Modernity: the Vampire, Zombie, and Cannibal
Session Proposal (MLA 2021 – Toronto)
Tiffany Yun-Chu Tsai
The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina
“Capital,” Marx tells us, “is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks;” for a ce…[Read more]
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Joanne Bernardi started the topic Call for Candidates: Japanese since 1900 Executive Committee Election in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 8 months agoThe Japanese since 1900 forum’s executive committee seeks nominations, including self nominations, for candidates and alternate candidates to stand for election on the committee. This year we need to fill two positions (term 2020-2025 and 2021-2026) so please consider self-nominating as a way to help promote East Asian presence in MLA. Please c…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic SE Asian CLCS Forum-Hosted Happy Hour: Fri, Jan 10 at the MLA in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 9 months, 1 week agoMembers and friends of the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic CLCS MLA Forum:
Our forum invites you to a MLA 2020 Happy Hour at 9pm on Friday, January 10 at the Frolik Kitchen + Cocktails, which is located on the 5th floor of the Motif Seattle Hotel (3 blocks from the Washington State Convention Center). Come mingle and decompress…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Ophelia Unbound in Asian Performances.” Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare 37 (2019): 1-12 in the group
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months agoAsian directors leverage Shakespeare’s own propensity to undermine dominant ideologies of gender—notably through the Ophelia figure—in their effort to renew Asian performance traditions. How do Shakespeare and modern directors talk to each other across cultural and historical divides? How does Ophelia become “unbound” through supraling…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Race in the group
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months ago“Race” offers a compelling study of ideas related to race throughout history. Its breadth of coverage, both geographically and temporally, provides readers with an expansive, global understanding of the term from the classical period onwards: Intersections of Race and Gender // Race and Social Theory Identity // Ethnicity, and Immigration //…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Race and the Epistemologies of Otherness.” chapter 5 of Race by Alexa Alice Joubin and Martin Orkin. New Critical Idiom series (London: Routledge, 2019), pp. 193-227 in the group
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months agoThis chapter examines narratives that reflect the impact of epistemologies of otherness upon our understanding of race. Race intersects with other social factors such as class, cultural citizenship, and gender. This chapter draws on case studies of artists in exile or diaspora who interrogate their own identities, because exile brings racial…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic MLA 2020 CFP: “Transmedia Engagement and the Performance of Place in SE Asia” in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months agoMLA 2020 (Jan 9-12, Seattle) CFP for Special Session sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum:
“Transmedia Engagement and the Performance of Place in Southeast Asia”
In Transmedia Television: Audiences, New Media, and Daily Life (2011: 1-2), Elizabeth Evans defines transmediality as “the increasingly p…[Read more]
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Orna Shaughnessy started the topic Social Hour for East Asianists Thurs night 1/3/19 – *free drinks* free books* in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months agoHope to see everyone there! Please share this with all your colleagues!
*First 60 people get a free drink ticket, and everyone has a chance at the door-prize raffle for new books.*
177: Social Hour for East Asianists, Hosted by LLC East Asian, LLC Japanese since 1900, LLC Ming and Qing Chinese, LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese, LLC…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic Job Announcement: Asst Prof. in Transpacific Asian American Studies, USC in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 2 years agoDept. of American Studies & Ethnicity
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
The Department of American Studies & Ethnicity, Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, California, is seeking one tenure-track assistant professor in the field of…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic ADCPL CFP MLA 2019: “Transacting Comparative Studies” in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoHi all, I’m on the board of the Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature and I’m posting on behalf of the chair, Thomas Beebee, to publicize our CFP for MLA 2019. Here it is, inspired by the Presidential Theme of “Textual Transactions”:
Transacting Comparative Studies with other Disciplines and Units
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Brian Bernards posted an update in the group
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months agoCFP for MLA 2019 Special Session sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum (please excuse the cross-forum advertising):
Southeast Asian Textual Translations and Transactions
Each year, the Southeast Asian Writers Award (S.E.A. Write) is awarded to an author from each of the member states of ASEAN. The awardees are…[Read more]
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Jonathan Abel posted an update in the group
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months agoCFP:
Social Media, Literary Transaction, and Nationalism in East Asian LiteratureAn LLC EAST ASIAN Forum Session at the next MLA convention in Chicago, January 3-6, 2019
How have Asian digital networks (e.g. Line, Weibo, and KakaoTalk) impacted the circulation of poetry and prose? And do these new literary transactions correlate with…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited “’Think What You’re Doing, Or You’ll Only Make an Ugly Reputation for Yourself’: Chin P’ing Mei (金瓶梅), Lying, and Literary History” in the group
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoHow does our daily mindreading—that is, our attribution and misattribution of mental states (such as thoughts, feelings, and intentions) to ourselves and others—differ from the mindreading we engage in when we read fiction? I have argued elsewhere (e.g., “Secret Life of Fiction,” PMLA, 2015) that drama, novels, and narrative poetry play and exp…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited “From the “From the Social to the Literary: Approaching Cao Xueqin’s The Story of the Stone (Honglou meng 紅樓夢) from a Cognitive Perspective” in the group
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThis essay draws on cognitive literary theory to offer new ways of reading Cao Xueqin’s classic novel Dream of the Red Chamber (紅樓夢) aka The Story of the Stone.
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Romeo and Juliet, Allegory, and the Ethnic Vocabularies of History.” Shakespeare Studies 46 (2008): 6-19 in the group
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoReadings of literary texts are always shaped by a reader’s particular location and knowledge, but those locations are themselves defined by their histories. Romeo and Juliet has inspired new sets of allegorical vocabularies of history in locations without confrontations with the English heritage in colonial contexts. Why is the reading of a c…[Read more]
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