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CLCS Global Anglophone

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  • Profile picture of Aarthi Vadde

    Aarthi Vadde started the topic MLA 2024 Global Anglophone Forum CFP (deadline today) in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global AnglophoneCLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 1 week, 1 day ago

    Digitality, Postcoloniality, Globality (sponsored by CLCS Global Anglophone Forum) Deadline today!
    This panel considers how digital technologies intersect with categories of knowledge, namely postcoloniality and globality. Possible topics: conceptions of digitality from the Global South, decolonizing DH, born-digital/post-digital literature and…[Read more]

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    Aarthi Vadde started the topic MLA 2024 GA Forum CFP (Guaranteed Panel) in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global AnglophoneCLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 1 week, 5 days ago

    Digitality, Postcoloniality, Globality (sponsored by CLCS Global Anglophone Forum) Deadline today!
    This panel considers how digital technologies intersect with categories of knowledge, namely postcoloniality and globality. Possible topics: conceptions of digitality from the Global South, decolonizing DH, born-digital/post-digital literature and…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Nesrine Chahine

    Nesrine Chahine started the topic Nominations for CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Forum in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global AnglophoneCLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 2 months, 1 week ago

    We are seeking nominations for the Executive Committee of the CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Forum at the MLA. We are also seeking nominations for a representative to the MLA Delegate Assembly on behalf of the CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Forum. Both appointments would begin after the MLA Convention in 2024. Please email all nominations…[Read more]

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    Daniel Williams deposited Transatlantic Climate and Gulf Stream Aesthetics in the group Group logo of CLCS Global AnglophoneCLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 1 year, 1 month ago

    The Gulf Stream gained scientific prominence in the nineteenth century as a test case for theories about the dynamics of ocean currents and the equilibrium of transatlantic climate. Discourse about the current supplied descriptions, analogies, and myths that persist into the present. Triangulating oceanic, ecological, and transatlantic approaches…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Regenia Gagnier

    Regenia Gagnier deposited From barbarism to decadence without the intervening civilization: or, living in the aftermath of anticipated futures in the group Group logo of CLCS Global AnglophoneCLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months ago

    ABSTRACT
    The styles, moods, performances, and practices of decadence have been simultaneous with modernization, not least in the process of nation-building. This article considers the dialectics of decadence and modernization with particular attention to the roles and responses of women in the twentieth to twenty-first centuries.…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Elizabeth Evans

    Elizabeth Evans started the topic CFP: Modernist Studies in the Age of Black Lives Matter (MSA2021 Chicago) in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global AnglophoneCLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 2 years ago

    Call for Papers (MSA 2021 Chicago): Modernist Studies in the Age of Black Lives Matter

    Call for papers for a proposed session for the Modernist Studies Association Conference to be held in Chicago, November 4-7, 2021.

    This proposed session considers how modernists are responding to Black Lives Matter in their scholarship. It asks, how has the…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Jason Frydman

    Jason Frydman deposited Peter Abrahams of South Africa: Learning to Read (in) the Global 1930s in the group Group logo of CLCS Global AnglophoneCLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 2 years ago

    Born poor, the material and ideological networks that propelled Peter Abrahams to literacy in 1930s South Africa lay bare how white liberalism, Pan-Africanism, and Marxism all overlapped as well as contradicted one another in the global 1930s. The confluences and contradictions of these currents of thought, artistic production, and political…[Read more]

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    Jason Frydman deposited Death in the Arena: A Brief History of Dancehall, Time, and the Cold War in the group Group logo of CLCS Global AnglophoneCLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 2 years ago

    This essay decodes how Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings uses the history of Jamaican music, culminating in the conflict between roots reggae and dancehall, to chart the Cold War’s conflicts over time, temporality, and futurity. A Brief History of Seven Killings points readers to a jaded, subaltern temporality encoded in a dan…[Read more]

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    Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Sign petition to Save CENTRO (Center for Puerto Rican Studies)  in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global AnglophoneCLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month ago

    This is a petition shared by Aldo Lauria Santiago of Rutgers University.

    Please consider reading and signing the “Save Centro (Center for Puerto Rican Studies)” petition, which you can access here: https://forms.gle/pDfE56LPkopPZHwb8

    Thanks,

    Elena Machado Sáez

    Chair of the LLC Latina and Latino Forum

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    Janice Ho started the topic CFP: Infrastructures of Care MLA 2022 in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global AnglophoneCLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month ago

    This panel explores intersections between infrastructure studies, labor, and care in global anglophone literature: in what ways are care work and the realms of reproductive and affective labor infrastructural to our lifeworlds? What kinds of infrastructures facilitate or impede domestic labor and the work of caring? How is the ongoing labor of…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Elena Machado Sáez

    Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Tonight at 7:15pm: Join us for joyful conversation and community! in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global AnglophoneCLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months ago

    Dear Colleagues,

    Join us this evening for our much-anticipated multi-forum reception, held via Zoom from 7:15-8:30 p.m!

    548 Social Event Arranged by the Forums LLC Latina and Latino, Chicana and Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban and Cuban Diasporic, Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English, African American, Caribbean,…[Read more]

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    Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Today at MLA 2021: “Afro-Latinx Stories” and “Latinx Affects” Panels  in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global AnglophoneCLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months ago

    Dear MLA members,

    Join us today at the panels sponsored by the Latina and Latino Literature Forum at the Modern Language Association’s 2021 convention!

    “Latinx Affects and the Literary Sensorium” (Panel #15)

    • Panel Date/Time: Thursday, January 7, 2020, 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM
    • Presider: Joshua Guzmán, U of California, Los Angeles
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    Daniel Williams deposited Coetzee’s Stones: Dusklands and the Nonhuman Witness in the group Group logo of CLCS Global AnglophoneCLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months ago

    Bringing together theoretical writing on objects, testimony, and trauma to develop the category of the “nonhuman witness,” this essay considers the narrative, ethical, and ecological work performed by peripheral objects in J. M. Coetzee’s Dusklands (1974). Coetzee’s insistent object catalogues acquire narrative agency and provide material for a c…[Read more]

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    Daniel Williams deposited Life among the Vermin: Nineveh and Ecological Relocation in the group Group logo of CLCS Global AnglophoneCLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months ago

    Henrietta Rose-Innes’s novel Nineveh (2011) catalogs the activities of a humane pest expert as she discovers, on an estate under construction outside Cape Town, how human and insect actors undermine the spatial expectations of post-apartheid South Africa. Rose-Innes advances a vision of interspecies connection by recasting controversial themes…[Read more]

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    Janice Ho started the topic CFPs for Global Anglophone Forums for MLA Toronto 2021 in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global AnglophoneCLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 3 years ago

    Dear Global Anglophone members,

    Please find our CFPs for the guaranteed Global Anglophone sessions for MLA Toronto 2021 below: one is on “Languages of Class” and the second is a joint collaboration with the Global Arab and Arab American Executive Forum on “Global Indigeneity.”  We hope you will consider submitting abstracts for…[Read more]

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    Ben Streeter deposited Reparation in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz and Patrick Modiano’s Dora Bruder in the group Group logo of CLCS Global AnglophoneCLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months ago

    W. G. Sebald and Patrick Modiano are two contemporary authors who share similar themes and literary practices. They are both fastidiously or even obsessively historical in their narrative development. And they seem preoccupied with the sins of World War II. Critics have divided feelings about their accomplishments. Skeptics say their trauma…[Read more]

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    Raphael Dalleo started the topic 648 – Cash Bar co-sponsored by Caribbean forum, Sat 1/11 @ 7:15 pm in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global AnglophoneCLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months ago

    648 – Cash Bar Arranged by the Forums LLC Latina and Latino, LLC Chicana and Chicano, LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English, LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic, LLC Puerto Rican, and CLCS Caribbean

     

    Saturday, 11 January 2020

    7:15 PM – 8:30 PM

    Sheraton -…[Read more]

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    Raphael Dalleo started the topic 468 – Sylvia Wynter and/in the Undergraduate Classroom, Sat. 1/11 @ 10:15 am in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global AnglophoneCLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months ago

    2020 MLA convention session sponsored by the CLCS Caribbean forum:

     

    Sylvia Wynter and/in the Undergraduate Classroom

    Saturday, January 11th, 2020

    10:15 am to 11:30 am

    Washington State Convention Center, Skagit 3

    Presiding: Kaiama Glover, Barnard College-Columbia University

     

    Prose Fiction, Plays, and Pantomimes: Teaching…[Read more]

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    Raphael Dalleo started the topic 200. The Caribbean 1970s, Friday 10 January 2020 at 8:30 am in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global AnglophoneCLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months ago

    2020 MLA convention panel, cosponsored by the CLCS Caribbean and TC Postcolonial Studies forums:

     

    The Caribbean 1970s

    Friday, January 10th, 2020

    8:30 am to 9:45 am

    Washington State Convention Center, Chelan 4

    Presiding: Raphael Dalleo, Bucknell University

     

    “Liberation of a Small Place: Political Narratives about the…[Read more]

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    James Gifford deposited An Improbably Moveable Mediterranean: translating, Transplanting, & Transforming Global Surrealisms in the group Group logo of CLCS Global AnglophoneCLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months ago

    The Egyptian Surrealist Art et Liberté group was recuperated in two exhibitions beginning in 2016 and continuing through 2018. The larger exhibition by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath emphasizes the group’s internationalism and the complexity of its engagement with various forms of Surrealism, including André Breton and Leon Trotsky’s 1938 manif…[Read more]

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