Activity – CLCS Global Hispanophone

Joyce Lynn Tolliver started the topic Global Hispanophone sessions at MLA 2017 in the discussion Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago

To help you plan your schedule for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia, here is a list of the three officially sponsored GH sessions, and of other sessions you will want to be sure to attend:

MLA Global Hispanophone Sessions 2017

Thursday, 5 January

From Moroccan Mellahs to Turkish Synagogues: A Sephardic Diaspora

1:45–3:00 p.m…[Read more]
Carol Zuses started the topic 2017 Forum Delegate Election Membership Suggestions? in the discussion Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to…[Read more]
Julien Jacques Simon deposited Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature in the group CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months ago

Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature is the first anthology exploring human cognition and literature in the context of early modern Spanish culture. It includes the leading voices in the field, along with the main themes and directions that this important area of study has been producing. The book begins with an overview of the…[Read more]
Joyce Lynn Tolliver started the topic Please circulate: MLA 2017 CFPs for Global Hispanophone Forum in the discussion Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago

We are proposing three sessions for the 2017 session in Philadelphia. In order to allow plenty of time for interaction, we will limit each session to three presentations. While you do have to be a member of MLA to present, you do not have to be a member of the Forum (although we’d love to have you!)

Guaranteed session

“Questioning the Glo…[Read more]
Joyce Lynn Tolliver started the topic "Empire's End" book is out! in the discussion Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago

Just received my copy of the wonderful anthology edited by Akiko Tsuchiya and Billy Acree, Empire’s End: Transnational Connections in the Hispanic World (Vanderbilt, 2016). I think every single essay is relevant to Global Hispanophone issues. Take a look…[Read more]
Joyce Lynn Tolliver replied to the topic 2017 Global Hispanophone CFPs in the discussion Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago

Here is our third call for papers. We are proposing this non-guaranteed session in collaboration with the forum on Sephardic Studies. Please consider proposing a paper, and share all three CFPs widely.

From “Moroccan Mellahs to Filipino Sinagogas: Sephardic Diaspora.”

Studies of Sephardic communities in African or Asian Spanish colonies. How…[Read more]
Joyce Lynn Tolliver started the topic 2017 Global Hispanophone CFPs in the discussion Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 12 months ago

Colleagues, for 2017 the theme for our guaranteed session is

“Questioning the Global Hispanophone”:
The Global Hispanophone offers both the potential for an expanded, destabilized Hispanism, and the limitations of being a pseudo-imperial category. Can a postnational, postimperial approach avoid this imperialist framework without undermining the…[Read more]
Juan E. De Castro deposited ¿En qué idioma escribe usted?: Spanish, Tagalog and Identity in José Rizal’s Noli me tangere in the group CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months ago

“¿En qué idioma escribe Ud.?” (142) “In which language are you writing?” This question, that Juan Crisóstomo Ibarra, the protagonist of José Rizal’s novel Noli me tangere (1887), addresses to the old scholar Don Anastasio, better known as Tasio, is more than just an expression of curiosity when he sees the latter writing, of all things, hiero…[Read more]
Yomaira Figueroa deposited Faithful Witnessing as Practice: Decolonial Readings of Shadows of Your Black Memory and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in the group CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months ago

This article considers Marıa Lugones’s concept of faithful witnessing as a point of departure to think about the ethics and possibilities of faithful witnessing in literary contexts. For Lugones, faithful witnessing is an act of aligning oneself with oppressed peoples against the grain of power and recognizing their humanity, oppression, and re…[Read more]
Luis I. Pradanos started the topic CFP–Iberian, Latin American, and Lusophone African Transatlantic Ecocriticism in the discussion Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months ago

CFP Ecozon@. European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment

http://www.ecozona.eu/index.php/journal/announcement/view/29
Jaime Brenes Reyes deposited Farmacia literaria: Cortázar y compañía in the group CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months ago

Literatura (búsqueda) + Fármaco (remedio y veneno) = literatura fantástica. Posibles reacciones: lectura obsesionada y sin parar, entrada a otras dimensiones de la realidad, nuevas maneras de entender la relación entre sujeto y objeto. Este curso se centra en la farmacia literaria del escritor argentino Julio Cortázar, además de aquéllos que in…[Read more]
Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic 2016 MLA Global Hispanophone Calls For Papers in the discussion Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 4 years ago

The new MLA Forum on Global Hispanophone is delighted to invite submissions for our inaugural session/s, which will take place at the MLA Annual Convention in Austin, Texas, on 7-10 January, 2016. (Note: these Calls for Papers are also available on the MLA website).

Global Hispanophone Literatures and Postcolonial Theory

The term…[Read more]

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