MLA Commons | CLCS Global Anglophone | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-anglophone/ Activity feed for the group, CLCS Global Anglophone. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:08:12 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 97c54fac0c4abafccc8c3666a3db0025 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-anglophone/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-4/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:50:32 -0500 Hello!

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2025, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2025. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one can…[Read more]

]]> 0 f7a21a2ea3119bcee61780937a76a474 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP Deadline Reminder: Novel Languages Conference (SNS 2025) in the forum CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-deadline-reminder-novel-languages-conference-sns-2025-2/ Sun, 10 Nov 2024 21:02:35 -0500 NOVEL LANGUAGES: The Biennial Meeting of the Society for Novel Studies

Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference we…[Read more]

]]> 0 ffe44bb1e1225719504ae24b32cf6103 Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes journal on "Australia And..." in the forum CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-special-topic-in-antipodes-journal-on-australia-and-6/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 01:24:10 -0400 CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature — “Australia And…”

Priority Deadline 1 November 2024

Antipodes invites articles for a special feature section in Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) that considers a literary or cultural work (including fil…[Read more]

]]> 0 4e20c10c6fbbea42ecb647f0cf113986 Regenia Gagnier deposited Language and literature in the information economy: the state of English, English and the state in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887290/ Mon, 27 May 2024 04:00:12 -0400 The impact of colonialism and empire and then of transport, logistics, advertising, media, cinema, radio, tourism, and the internet extended the global reach of English. With 1.13 billion speakers, one in seven in the world now has some English competence. Within this global circulation of English, we have the global teaching of English language…[Read more]

]]> 0 121b0b2ee61902971bbcf59ea62c0357 Louise Bethlehem deposited Speculative Fiction from the Global South--Anthropocene Intersections, Interim Bibliography in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887199/ Sun, 26 May 2024 04:00:11 -0400 Interim bibliography on science fiction and speculative fiction with an emphasis on the global South and on Anthropocene-related perspectives generated in conjunction with the Rift Futurism Project supported by a grant from the ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 3011006089)
Louise Bethlehem, PI, English and Cultural Studies, The Hebrew…[Read more]

]]> 0 cf769066663bd61bf9f8d3ea283b1d2e Louise Bethlehem deposited African Futurism Interim Bibliography in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887041/ Fri, 24 May 2024 04:00:13 -0400 A compilation of articles on African Futurism generated in conjunction with the Rift Futurism research project supported by THE ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 3011006089), updated May 2024.

]]> 0 5fa5c79aae42a8efdfbfabfcd3a9da34 Regenia Gagnier deposited The Geopolitics of Beauty in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870899/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 04:00:14 -0500 Building on eighteenth-century philosophical traditions, Victorian aesthetics were often posed as an antidote to the vicissitudes of the Industrial Revolution and the political and economic demands of the marketplace, and in most cultures undergoing modernization the Beautiful has often functioned in opposition to the forces of power and…[Read more]

]]> 0 b15d1b491bfffa0db9d0c730f714036b Regenia Gagnier deposited The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870888/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 03:02:28 -0500 Will students raised on social media still read English literature?
• What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India,
Australasia, the USA?
• What is the role of English language in relation to other global
and local languages?
• What is the role of decolonising efforts?
• How do our respective state apparatuses affect…[Read more]

]]> 0 7258b3b17289817e08e63687382ada67 Ramzi Salti deposited Vivian and Her Son in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870104/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 04:00:14 -0500 This short story, written by Dr. Ramzi Salti, was published as part of his book titled “The Native Informant and Other Stories: Six Tales of Defiance from the Arab World”. It has been turned into a short film titled “The 40th Day’–available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/fspvJSiSQkc. Complete E-Book now available on Google Play and Kindle.

]]> 0 4911f3546614ca570c39409dfe6ac135 Arif Camoglu deposited Provincializing Romanticism: Ottoman Hayaliyyun and Literary Globality in the Nineteenth Century in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1868238/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 04:00:17 -0500 This essay considers the shortfalls of globalizing tendencies in nineteenth-century
literary studies with a focus on the Ottoman Turkish articulation of romanticism, i.e.,
hayaliyyun. Retrieving a historically and geographically hybrid genealogy of romanticism
through the Ottoman Turkish context, my discussion situates romantic imaginary…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b928d5db6d0dee9fe35e0497af8ecba Arif Camoglu deposited Loving Sovereignty: Political Mysticism, Seyh Galib, and Giorgio Agamben in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866782/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 04:01:18 -0500 Centering on the poetry of Şeyh Galib (1757–1799), this article considers Ottoman imperial sovereignty in tandem with the discourse of mysticism that underpinned it. A key rhetorical device that enables the abstraction of the politics of empire in this discourse is the metaphor of the beloved sovereign. In the mystical writing of Galib, this me…[Read more]

]]> 0 c4ac11e3af08a6a03a3abf2f013d097d Arif Camoglu deposited Inter-imperial Dimensions of Turkish Literary Modernity in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1865834/ Sat, 25 Nov 2023 04:00:13 -0500 Calling for a historiographical shift in literary criticism, this essay stresses the expansionist vision of the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire, approaches its literature as a corpus of representation for imperial subjectivities, and thereby supplements the critique of the narrative of literary modernity identified with the orientalist E. J. W.…[Read more]

]]> 0 4ff09d2025cbd04f131ad4e336119efd Hania A.M. Nashef deposited J.M. Coetzee’s ‘Jesus’ Trilogy: A Search for Answers in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1842189/ Sat, 22 Apr 2023 03:52:49 -0400 The 2019 novel by the South African-Australian Nobel laureate, J M Coetzee, The Death of Jesus, is a third book in a sequence that includes Jesus in its title; like its predecessors it follows the lives of a recently constructed family in the dystopian Spanish-speaking towns of Novilla and Estrella. The surreal trilogy, which began with The…[Read more]

]]> 0 b76ce488fc54458bb354bf7c95fce14a Amel Abbady deposited Homeland as a Site of Trauma in Selected Short Stories by Edwidge Danticat in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841275/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:14:07 -0400 The main objective of this article is to examine the representation of ʻhomelandʼ in three short stories by Caribbean-American writer Edwidge Danticat: “The Book of the Dead,” “Night Talkers,” and “The Gift.” All three stories represent Haitian migrants in the multi-cultural setting of the United States. A central theme that connects these stories…[Read more]

]]> 0 ef701dd6b15604bc45db52ad97bb99d9 Amel Abbady deposited Mobility, Survival, and the Female Body in Laila Lalami᾿s Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841271/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:07:59 -0400 Abstract of my book chapter, published in Memory, Voice, and Identity
Muslim Women’s Writing from across the Middle East
Edited By Feroza Jussawalla, Doaa Omran

]]> 0 ed9dee773f216de81212ae8d840b999d Aarthi Vadde started the topic MLA 2024 Global Anglophone Forum CFP (deadline today) in the discussion CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-anglophone/forum/topic/mla-2024-global-anglophone-forum-cfp-deadline-today/ Fri, 17 Mar 2023 15:47:52 -0400 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]

]]> 0 b8b903b8258feae823a29036d73cf814 Aarthi Vadde started the topic MLA 2024 GA Forum CFP (Guaranteed Panel) in the discussion CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-anglophone/forum/topic/mla-2024-ga-forum-cfp-guaranteed-panel/ Tue, 14 Mar 2023 12:37:47 -0400 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]

]]> 0 ba5c08b622a63b24df4be55e96aad8cd Nesrine Chahine started the topic Nominations for CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Forum in the discussion CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-anglophone/forum/topic/nominations-for-clcs-global-arab-and-arab-american-forum-2/ Fri, 13 Jan 2023 16:38:27 -0500 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]

]]> 0 b578b13ddda28435699fd105a53e53e5 Daniel Williams deposited Transatlantic Climate and Gulf Stream Aesthetics in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1771061/ Wed, 09 Feb 2022 02:24:27 -0500 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]

]]> 0 b0505c828f88015f6ad775d9585d0d32 Regenia Gagnier deposited From barbarism to decadence without the intervening civilization: or, living in the aftermath of anticipated futures in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1749990/ Wed, 25 Aug 2021 03:48:47 -0400 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]

]]> 0 2fbf3581eb530b5cb00de490ad6db6c3 Elizabeth Evans started the topic CFP: Modernist Studies in the Age of Black Lives Matter (MSA2021 Chicago) in the discussion CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-modernist-studies-in-the-age-of-black-lives-matter-msa2021-chicago/ Sun, 14 Mar 2021 16:13:57 -0400 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]

]]> 0 fe9f4d1e22f10bc44463f2dc84cc139c Jason Frydman deposited Peter Abrahams of South Africa: Learning to Read (in) the Global 1930s in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1730984/ Thu, 11 Mar 2021 03:55:05 -0500 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]

]]> 0 a4954a4c60ed0b2714a7959dd77e406c Jason Frydman deposited Death in the Arena: A Brief History of Dancehall, Time, and the Cold War in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1730982/ Thu, 11 Mar 2021 03:48:46 -0500 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]

]]> 0 98296fbaf579fff67581dcd45bb030e8 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Sign petition to Save CENTRO (Center for Puerto Rican Studies)  in the discussion CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-anglophone/forum/topic/sign-petition-to-save-centro-center-for-puerto-rican-studies-3/ Tue, 09 Feb 2021 14:56:07 -0500 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

]]> 0 d2a91294aa22fe6b8263a8aa1501f5e2 Janice Ho started the topic CFP: Infrastructures of Care MLA 2022 in the discussion CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-infrastructures-of-care-mla-2022/ Sat, 06 Feb 2021 18:49:10 -0500 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]

]]> 0 a7e151eb9fec1bf153a3fdbb98ab7f17 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Tonight at 7:15pm: Join us for joyful conversation and community! in the discussion CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-anglophone/forum/topic/tonight-at-715pm-join-us-for-joyful-conversation-and-community-3/ Sat, 09 Jan 2021 20:50:29 -0500 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]

]]> 0 7e84932a860ee0b7b56d22716e2498a9 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Today at MLA 2021: “Afro-Latinx Stories” and “Latinx Affects” Panels  in the discussion CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-anglophone/forum/topic/today-at-mla-2021-afro-latinx-stories-and-latinx-affects-panels-3/ Thu, 07 Jan 2021 14:48:02 -0500 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
  • <…

[Read more]

]]> 0 97e85919ab9ba77820af57972f5eff18 Daniel Williams deposited Coetzee’s Stones: Dusklands and the Nonhuman Witness in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1692394/ Fri, 19 Jun 2020 16:35:02 -0400 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]

]]> 0 b2d1b0c499efd084a69ce2bd1422279d Daniel Williams deposited Life among the Vermin: Nineveh and Ecological Relocation in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1691938/ Wed, 17 Jun 2020 16:32:22 -0400 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]

]]> 0 72358baa092006e72281af84058d6067 Janice Ho started the topic CFPs for Global Anglophone Forums for MLA Toronto 2021 in the discussion CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-anglophone/forum/topic/cfps-for-global-anglophone-forums-for-mla-toronto-2021/ Tue, 03 Mar 2020 21:18:27 -0500 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]

]]> 0 b64c3cb8a6a47c6b88ab0306b53a28aa Ben Streeter deposited Reparation in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz and Patrick Modiano’s Dora Bruder in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1676285/ Sat, 25 Jan 2020 03:53:43 -0500 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]

]]> 0 c1af534246b845b8252924ab2373cd44 Raphael Dalleo started the topic 648 - Cash Bar co-sponsored by Caribbean forum, Sat 1/11 @ 7:15 pm in the discussion CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-anglophone/forum/topic/648-cash-bar-co-sponsored-by-caribbean-forum-sat-1-11-715-pm-2/ Wed, 08 Jan 2020 17:02:58 -0500 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]

]]> 0 9e5ce0c72b73632a57800c567be889bc Raphael Dalleo started the topic 468 - Sylvia Wynter and/in the Undergraduate Classroom, Sat. 1/11 @ 10:15 am in the discussion CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-anglophone/forum/topic/468-sylvia-wynter-and-in-the-undergraduate-classroom-sat-1-11-1015-am-3/ Fri, 03 Jan 2020 18:09:43 -0500 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]

]]> 0 42eb9183d4528e4ea7b948644644ea4b Raphael Dalleo started the topic 200. The Caribbean 1970s, Friday 10 January 2020 at 8:30 am in the discussion CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-anglophone/forum/topic/200-the-caribbean-1970s-friday-10-january-2020-at-830-am-3/ Fri, 03 Jan 2020 18:02:46 -0500 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]

]]> 0 14e91e8ec275f5c30ea9da09cffe9ec8 James Gifford deposited An Improbably Moveable Mediterranean: translating, Transplanting, & Transforming Global Surrealisms in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1671085/ Fri, 29 Nov 2019 16:25:21 -0500 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]

]]> 0 19404fa299118613af3921d91bc33eb0 Janice Ho started the topic Candidate Statement for the Executive Committee CLCS Global Anglophone Forum in the discussion CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-anglophone/forum/topic/candidate-statement-for-the-executive-committee-clcs-global-anglophone-forum/ Sun, 03 Nov 2019 23:58:05 -0500 Dear colleagues,

I am honored to have been nominated for the MLA Executive Committee of the CLCS Global Anglophone forum. I am currently Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder, working in the fields of British and transnational modernisms, and postcolonial and global Anglophone literatures. My monograph, Nation…[Read more]

]]> 0 6a8e64134c5da5726ead13fa143cb110 Jason Frydman deposited Scheherezade in Chains: Arab-Islamic Genealogies of African Diasporic Literature in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1666904/ Sat, 19 Oct 2019 16:30:38 -0400 Drawing on Arabic textual traditions and foregrounding the liminal time and space of administrative detention, of the expired visa, of deportation, and of repatriation, Muslim slave narratives deserve recognition as generative forebears of transnational, multicultural literature in both England and the United States. Yet these forebears were…[Read more]

]]> 0 b7def1b6f6213d6e1a556f5eff82f1ba Neelofer Qadir started the topic CFP ACLA 2020: Rethinking Racial Capitalism: Labor, Caste, and Dispossession in the discussion CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-acla-2020-rethinking-racial-capitalism-labor-caste-and-dispossession/ Mon, 16 Sep 2019 15:28:32 -0400 Dear colleagues, please consider submitting an abstract to a seminar on rethinking racial capitalism for the annual ACLA meeting in Chicago (March 19-22). You can find the full call here. If you have any questions, feel free to follow up on this thread or via email (n_qadir@uncg.edu)

]]> 0 4a8be4fafc4f62bc8f69b71c3192db15 Katherine Hallemeier deposited Literary Cosmopolitanisms in Teju Cole's Every Day is for the Thief and Open City in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1658729/ Fri, 26 Jul 2019 03:53:18 -0400 This paper examines cosmopolitanism in Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief (2007) and Open City (2011). The protagonists of both novels maintain cosmopolitan identities largely by embracing an international literary culture in which elite cosmopolitan fiction relays the experiences of marginalized cosmopolitan subjects, such as the migrant w…[Read more]

]]> 0 69b87900e863ebab584a0205c0f42549 James Gifford deposited Postcolonial Literature (Syllabus) in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1658505/ Wed, 24 Jul 2019 03:59:41 -0400 Colonialism waned in the 1940s through 60s amidst decolonization movements, yet globalization flourished in often unnoticed, hegemonic pathways. Considering cultural products of this moment leads us to ask what happens in the age of globalization that follows after an age of nationalism. When capital migrates, and labour follows, whence culture?…[Read more]

]]> 0 fe880a961e81671fa1d5892f2eb61ad1 James Gifford deposited Postcolonial Literature (Study Guide) in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1658500/ Wed, 24 Jul 2019 03:48:43 -0400 Colonialism waned in the 1940s through 60s amidst decolonization movements, yet globalization flourished in often unnoticed, hegemonic pathways. Considering cultural products of this moment leads us to ask what happens in the age of globalization that follows after an age of nationalism. When capital migrates, and labour follows, whence culture?…[Read more]

]]> 0 107d27fcd9c2e0e54de7e90386fe0dd2 James Gifford deposited Philosophy of Middle-earth (Syllabus) in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1657844/ Wed, 17 Jul 2019 16:40:47 -0400 The recent popularity of the film version of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings has renewed interest in this widely read work set in the realm of Middle-earth. A careful study of Tolkien’s work can be used to raise several philosophical questions, particularly in the area of ethics. This course will examine such questions, also considering topics fro…[Read more]

]]> 0 6acd80ad7b11973ff9dd19cb81f7671a James Gifford deposited Philosophy of Middle-earth (Study Guide) in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1657838/ Wed, 17 Jul 2019 16:30:39 -0400 The recent popularity of the film version of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings has renewed interest in this widely read work set in the realm of Middle-earth. A careful study of Tolkien’s work can be used to raise several philosophical questions, particularly in the area of ethics. This course will examine such questions, also considering topics fro…[Read more]

]]> 0 f110154ce4237f311a1d5cd34cebaad1 Chandrima Chakraborty deposited Narendra Modi’s victory speech delivers visions of a Hindu nationalist ascetic in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1641076/ Tue, 28 May 2019 16:36:31 -0400 India’s re-elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a victory speech that presented himself as a selfless and humble Hindu ascetic. This vision goes far to promote a Hindu nationalist ‘new India.’

]]> 0 a8d1e5c43c1ee1107e9f7253bc3e6046 Nicholas Rinehart deposited Richard Wright's Globalism in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1638342/ Mon, 15 Apr 2019 03:48:45 -0400 This essay takes a long view of Wright’s work, arguing that his racial consciousness always extended beyond national boundaries and was forged from a globalist perspective. This outlook is not, as some critics have maintained, a late-stage development in Wright’s career, but rather the predominant theme that unites his oeuvre with a single con…[Read more]

]]> 0 034d41875c5461a20167ab3378525a08 Lauren Rule Maxwell deposited Graphic Atwood in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1636850/ Sun, 31 Mar 2019 16:25:22 -0400 Abstracts for the panel “Graphic Atwood” proposed by the Margaret Atwood Society for the 2020 MLA Convention.

]]> 0 23557557ba0b085d242d34daa596f9f3 Regenia Gagnier deposited Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1627238/ Tue, 25 Dec 2018 16:25:21 -0500 Front matter for Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century

]]> 0 cac6e6b7f654b7e57309062e36e80170 Ben Streeter deposited Karl Ove Knausgaard Literary Celebrity in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1622467/ Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:33:41 -0400 To make sense of Knausgaard’s meteoric rise, we need to see that his prestige preceded his consecration in the Anglophone literary press.

]]> 0 99031664cf88875e36d52dedf42ba4c1 Marzia Milazzo deposited Reconciling Racial Revelations in Post-Apartheid South African Literature in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1621641/ Sat, 20 Oct 2018 04:04:49 -0400 Offering a reading of Mongane Wally Serote’s Revelations (2010) alongside other recent novels by black South African writers, this essay answers calls for more careful analyses of the roles that race plays within post-apartheid literature and culture. As it questions the shift away from a concern with institutional racism and white supremacy t…[Read more]

]]> 0 bef5f8996ace66ca543b580086c0cafc Katherine Hallemeier deposited Sympathy and Cosmopolitanism: Affective Limits in Cosmopolitan Reading in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1621638/ Sat, 20 Oct 2018 03:56:53 -0400 This paper argues that contemporary understandings of cosmopolitan literature are significantly limited by their dependence on sympathetic attachments as constitutive of cosmopolitan practice. I trace a genealogy of the connection between sympathy, cosmopolitanism, and the novel that extends from Adam Smith and Immanuel Kant to Martha Nussbaum and…[Read more]

]]> 0