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Benita Sampedro posted an update in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoMLA 2019 Session: Textual Transactions in the Global Hispanophone
As the nexus of seemingly highly disparate groups, Global Hispanophone studies explore the paradox of a separation that unifies. This paradox is reflected in texts that navigate separations such as those between countries, languages, generations, interior frontiers, and colonial…[Read more]
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Benita Sampedro posted an update in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoMLA 2019 (guaranteed) Session: Teaching the Global Hispanophone
(Roundtable)Many of the challenges inherent in teaching the Global Hispanophone are apparent: for instance, curricula structured according to mid-twentieth-century conceptions of Hispanism; issues of language; or difficulties in securing copies of texts. How have you met these…[Read more]
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Mahan Ellison posted an update in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoExtended deadline for the Lusophone/Hispanophone Caucus of the African Literature Association.
Call for Papers: Lusophone/Hispanophone Caucus of the African Literature Association (LHCALA)
In line with the theme proposed for the 44th annual meeting of the African Literature Association in 2018, “The Environments of African Literature”, the Lus…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited SPAN 150: Introduction to cultures of the Spanish-speaking world in Comics in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoDescription: This course is an introduction to cultures of the Spanish-speaking world with an emphasis on comics and graphic novels. In this course we will learn about the graphic novel as an artistic vehicle for studying the history and cultures of Spain and Latin America (including the Latino US). There will be a series of guest appearances from…[Read more]
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic 2018 Global Hispanophone Panels in the discussion
Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 3 years agoPanel I. Documenting the Geography of the Global Hispanophone, Forum of the Global Hispanophone
The archive provides us with multiple layouts of possible Global Hispanophone geographies. This panel aims to explore how these unstable networks challenge or expand current notions of Hispanophone literature beyond the traditional Atlantic Studies.…[Read more]
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic 2018 Global Hispanophone Panels in the discussion
Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 3 years agoPanel I. Documenting the Geography of the Global Hispanophone, Forum of the Global Hispanophone
The archive provides us with multiple layouts of possible Global Hispanophone geographies. This panel aims to explore how these unstable networks challenge or expand current notions of Hispanophone literature beyond the traditional Atlantic Studies.…[Read more]
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Joyce Lynn Tolliver replied to the topic Vote for Global Hispanophone Executive Committee new member in the discussion
Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 3 years, 5 months agoCorrection: I reversed the institutional affiliations in my post just now. Martin Repinecz is at University of San Diego and Elisa Rizo is at Iowa State. Sorry!
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Joyce Lynn Tolliver started the topic Vote for Global Hispanophone Executive Committee new member in the discussion
Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 3 years, 5 months agoPlease don’t forget to log in to the MLA site before December 10 to cast your vote for the newest member of the Global Hispanophone Executive Committee. There are two outstanding candidates this year: Martin Repinecz (Iowa State University) and Elisa Rizo (University of San Diego).
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Joyce Lynn Tolliver started the topic Global Hispanophone sessions at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 3 years, 5 months agoTo 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]
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Carol Zuses started the topic 2017 Forum Delegate Election Membership Suggestions? in the discussion
Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 3 years, 5 months agoThe 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]
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Julien Jacques Simon deposited Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoCognitive 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]
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Joyce Lynn Tolliver started the topic Please circulate: MLA 2017 CFPs for Global Hispanophone Forum in the discussion
Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 4 years agoWe 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]
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Joyce Lynn Tolliver started the topic "Empire's End" book is out! in the discussion
Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoJust 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]
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Joyce Lynn Tolliver replied to the topic 2017 Global Hispanophone CFPs in the discussion
Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoHere 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]
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Joyce Lynn Tolliver started the topic 2017 Global Hispanophone CFPs in the discussion
Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoColleagues, 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 4 years, 3 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]
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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 4 years, 5 months agoThis 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]
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Luis I. Pradanos started the topic CFP–Iberian, Latin American, and Lusophone African Transatlantic Ecocriticism in the discussion
Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoCFP Ecozon@. European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment
http://www.ecozona.eu/index.php/journal/announcement/view/29
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Jaime Brenes Reyes deposited Farmacia literaria: Cortázar y compañía in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoLiteratura (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]
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic 2016 MLA Global Hispanophone Calls For Papers in the discussion
Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThe 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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