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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 4 weeks, 1 day 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 2 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 8 months, 1 week 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 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 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 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, 2 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 1 year, 5 months 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 1 year, 11 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 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 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 4 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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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Shakespeare on Film in Asia.” Chapter 12 of The Shakespearean World, ed. Jill L. Levenson and Robert Ormsby (London: Routledge, 2017), pp. 225-240 in the group
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoShakespearean tragedies and comedies have been adapted to the silver screen in India, Malaysia, Tibet, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, and Japan. How do Shakespeare and modern directors talk to each other across cultural and historical divides? Why are particular strategies used or themes emphasized? How are pre-linguistic structures of spectacle and…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited The Paradox of Female Agency: Ophelia and East Asian Sensibilities in the group
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThere are three main East Asian approaches to interpreting Ophelia. The first is informed by the fascination with and reaction against the Victorian pictorialization of Ophelia, especially John Everett Millais’s famous Ophelia (1851), that emphasized, as Kimberly Rhodes describes, her “pathos, innocence, and beauty rather than the unseemly det…[Read more]
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Joanne Bernardi started the topic CFP Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese Media 2018 in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 3 years agoAnnouncing CFP “East Asian Languages and Literature after 1900”
LLC Japanese since 1900 session CFP, MLA NY 2018 just posted:
Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese MediaPapers on the application of DH techniques to nontextual materials from or concerning Japan, including film, art, sound. 250 word abstract and CV by 15 March 2017
Joanne…[Read more]
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Orna Shaughnessy started the topic Thank you to De Gruyter Mouton for supporting Asian Studies at the MLA in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThank you to De Gruyter Mouton for supporting Asian Studies at the MLA through a generous donation to the East Asia Reception!
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Orna Shaughnessy started the topic East Asian Reception photos in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThank you, everyone, for the hugely successful East Asia Reception at the MLA in Philadelphia 2017!
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic Thank you everyone! in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoHi all,
Asian-themed panels were well-attended, and the Saturday night reception was a hit! Thank you all for supporting each other. Let’s build on this momentum for MLA 2018.
We have a lot of ideas that will be shared soon, but in the meantime, if there is someone who’d like to take over organizing another reception for next year, contact…[Read more]
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