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Marisa Verna deposited « Proust et l’odeur de son temps » in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
Until now, critics have shown little interest in the bouquet of aromas and scents that permeate the linguistic fabric of À la recherche du temps perdu , to the point of forming an olfactory (and cognitive) underlay. The aesthetic impact of these odors warrants further investigation, starting with a reconstruction of the “problem of smell” in Prou…[Read more]
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Nathan H. Dize started the topic Conversation with Jean Abel Pierre about corruption in Haiti (in French) in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Kwazman Vwa is delighted to welcome author Jean Abel Pierre. Pierre will be with us to discuss his recent book, Sociologie critique de la corruption: Comment Haïti est pris au piège de la pauvreté. Corruption is a subject that concerns us all, and somehow, our preoccupation with limiting its effects and abuses never seem to fully eliminate it ent…[Read more]
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Nathalie Dupont started the topic Call for Nominations LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 8 months, 1 week ago
Dear colleagues,
The LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2024 through the close of the January 2029 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members…[Read more]
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Juliane Braun deposited Theater of War: Reconstructing (Trans)National Affiliation and Performance Residue in a Divided City in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 11 months, 2 weeks ago
This essay examines ethnic strife and cultural friction in New Orleans during the Mexican-American war. Specifically, it explores how the Crescent City’s anglophone and francophone populations navigated the tension between national and transnational affiliation through performance. By considering both the material and the immaterial aspects of p…[Read more]
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited The Past is Always Present: Social Media and Survival in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months ago
In this chapter, I connect my experience with abuse and intimate partner violence with my research projects and then radically changing my pedagogy away from coercion towards empathy.
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Juliane Braun deposited Re-Visiting the Creole Myth: Race and Ethnicity on the New Orleans Stage in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months ago
Scholars who have studied the contested meaning of “creole” in Louisiana have
typically maintained that the “Creole myth,” that is the strategic redefinition of
the term “creole” to refer to the white descendants of Louisiana’s original French
and Spanish settlers, emerged during or shortly after the Civil War. Drawing on
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Juliane Braun deposited The Poetics of Education in Antebellum New Orleans in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months ago
Published in New Orleans in 1845 by a group of free men of color, Les Cenelles: Choix de poésies indigènes is now commonly recognized as the first collection of African American poetry. As a testament to and expression of the intellectual prowess of New Orleans’s francophone free Black community, Les Cenelles deserves to be read as a formally int…[Read more]
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Tobias Warner started the topic MLA 22 CFP – Francophone Studies in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months ago
Dear Colleagues,
Please see below for several calls for papers in Francophone Studies for MLA 2022 in Washington, D.C. These sessions are sponsored by the LLC Francophone Forum Executive Committee. You may submit any queries and paper proposals directly to the session organizers.
Thank you,
Tobias Warner
Global Anti-Racist Movements: The…[Read more]
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Ashley Williard started the topic CFP: SE17 roundtables on race in early modern France/French studies in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months ago
I am sharing the call for papers for the first virtual SE17 (Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies) conference being held on Zoom on October 22-23 and November 6-7.
I am reaching out to LLC Francophone because we welcome contributions from scholars in fields beyond early modern French—including Black, Indigenous, and F…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Proust une langue étrangère in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months ago
Proust was strongly opposed to the idea of a naturally “clear” national language whose directives would be inherent in thought itself. This book questions Proust’s style from the point of view of its theorization and the implementation of diffuse sensory rhetoric in À la recherche du temps perdu.
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Nathan H. Dize deposited French #MeToo?: Francophone African and Caribbean Women’s Writing in English Translation in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months ago
Originally founded by Tarana Burke in 2006, the “Me Too Movement” seeks to help survivors of sexual violence, particularly women of color, “to help find pathways to healing” (“metoomvmt.org/about/). Then, in the fall of 2017, the #MeToo hashtag reverberated throughout the Internet, on the front pages of newspapers, and in the public square as…[Read more]
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Nathan H. Dize deposited A Phenomenology of Gede: Thinking with the Dead in Haiti in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months ago
In the Haitian religious tradition of Vodou, Gede is the lwa, or spirit, concerned with the
beginning of life and the passage into the afterlife, death and regeneration. Gede is often
regarded as the spirit of the people in Haiti because he has a direct connection to every living
being, everyone may call on Gede for protection. Gede’s appeal a…[Read more] -
Nathan H. Dize deposited The Archive as Method: Virtual and Material Archives of the French Atlantic in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months ago
In the last two decades since the publication of Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, Caribbean historical studies has undergone an ‘archival turn.’ Indeed, archives and formal institutions of knowledge have always been and continue to be an integral part of historical work, but Trouillot’s work has cal…[Read more]
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Nathan H. Dize deposited Le Devoir de Mémoire dans la Littérature d’Expression Francophone in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months ago
« La mémoire est un droit » écrit Christiane Taubira dans sa contribution au débat ‘La Mémoire de l’esclavage et ses dérives’ en 2006 pour la revue philosophique Cités. Étant donné que la mémoire est un droit, qu’est-ce que l’on entend par mémoire ? La mémoire de qui et de quoi ? Pourquoi faut-il s’en souvenir ? Quel est le but de la mémoire ? P…[Read more]
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Jennifer M. Wilks started the topic CFP: Extra-Anthropcentric Subjects in and from the Global South (MLA 2021) in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months ago
Extra- and non-anthropocentric subjects of the Global South, notably the Caribbean. Who/ what is the human-animal-other subject? Narratives/poetics extrinsic to the colonial mind/body split? Old materialisms ‘with soul’. 300 word abstract and 1 page CV by 3/15 to Jennifer M. Wilks (jmwilks@austin.utexas.edu) and Rosemary J. Jolly (rjj14@psu.edu).
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Karl Ashoka Britto started the topic LLC Francophone Sessions — MLA Seattle 2020 in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months ago
Dear Colleagues,
Just a reminder about our three sponsored sessions at the 2020 MLA Convention next month. We hope to see many of you in Seattle!
On behalf of the LLC Francophone Executive Committee,
Karl Ashoka Britto
Francophone Studies and the New Humanities
THURSDAY, 9 JANUARY 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 205 (WSCC)
Keywords: cognitive l…[Read more]
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Karl Ashoka Britto started the topic LLC Francophone Sessions — MLA Seattle 2020 in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months ago
Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to announce the following three sessions, to be held during the 2020 MLA Convention in January. We hope to see many of you in Seattle!
On behalf of the LLC Francophone Executive Committee,
Karl Ashoka Britto
- Francophone Studies and the New Humanities
THURSDAY, 9 JANUARY 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 205…[Read more]
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Nathan H. Dize deposited La Mulâtresse During the Two World Wars: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Suzanne Lacascade’s Claire-Solange, âme-africaine and Mayotte Capécia’s Je suis Martiniquaise in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months ago
When we think of the literature produced before, during, and after the two World Wars we rarely think of the Caribbean as a site of significant literary output. Typically, we privilege a white, male, European literary voice. If we do consider literature from elsewhere, it usually follows a pattern of normative privilege. Therefore, it is useful to…[Read more]
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Nathan H. Dize deposited Intervening in French: A Colony in Crisis, the Digital Humanities, and the French Classroom in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months ago
This essay explores the use of *A Colony in Crisis: The Saint-Domingue Grain Crisis of 1789* in the French literature classroom and how it helps address gaps in digital humanities and French language pedagogy while interrogating the colonial positionality of the French Revolution’s digital archive. In 2015, the Newberry Library received a Digit…[Read more]
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Nathan H. Dize deposited Taking One Last Breath, Catching One Last Glimpse (a review of L’Etoile Absinthe by Jacques Stephen Alexis) in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months ago
L’étoile absinthe (The Absinthe Star) begins with an image of the Caribbean sun––this infra-rouge mass floats in the sky like a large bird, circling the potomitan. Readers of the novel will immediately notice a patch of text on the very first page is missing, as though time were slowly eating away at the final distinguishable traces of Alexis…[Read more]
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