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Cesar Dominguez started the topic Reading Group: (Re)Thinking Post-/De-Colonialism in the Hispanophone World in the discussion
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 3 months, 1 week agoI’d like to invite you to join a virtual reading group on key texts to (re)think post-/de-colonialism in the Hispanophone world. A meeting will be held every three weeks for a two-hour session. The aim is to foster collaboration in both teaching and research on these topics, as well as creating synergies for future actions. If you’re interested,…[Read more]
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Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra started the topic MLA2020: Global South panel in the discussion
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 7 months, 3 weeks ago248 – Race, Indigeneity, and Articulations of Sovereignty across the Global South
Friday, 10 January 2020 | 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM | WSCC – Skagit 4
Presiding: Magali Armillas-Tiseyra, Penn State U, University Park
- “Can the Subaltern Blush? Shame and the Question of Identity in Slave Narratives by Jacobs and Manzano,” David Luis-Brown, Claremon…
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Neelofer Qadir started the topic CFP MLA 2020 Roundtable on Global Black Studies in the discussion
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months agoEnthusiastically inviting participants for a roundtable on global Black studies for the Modern Language Association’s 2020 convention in Seattle, Washington, USA, 9-12 January.
For this non-guaranteed session, the organizers seek short provocations in response to the following prompt:How does the prefix “global” alter, expand, or complicate no…[Read more]
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Katherine Hummel replied to the topic CFPs for Global South forum panels at the 2020 MLA in the discussion
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months agoIs it possible to know if any of these panels are guaranteed sessions?
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Amelie Daigle started the topic CFP: Transnational Families, Transnational Novels in the discussion
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoJuly 12-13, 2019: Institute of Modern Languages Research at the University of London (London, England)
From Ian Watt to Joseph Slaughter, scholars of literature have understood the novel as a genre that emphasizes the formation of the individual in relation to a nation-state. However, in recent decades, the interconnectedness of the global market…[Read more]
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Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra started the topic CFPs for Global South forum panels at the 2020 MLA in the discussion
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoRace, Indigeneity, and Articulations of Sovereignty across the Global South
Papers on the intersections between indigeneity, postcoloniality, creolization, and discourses of race in the Global South. How does migration affect understandings of sovereignty/belonging? What are the powers/limitations of a globalized concept of indigeneity? 250-word…[Read more] -
Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra started the topic Global South panels at the 2019 MLA in the discussion
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months agoThe Global South forum’s sponsored panel at this year’s MLA, “Waste, Garbage, and Effluence in the Global South,” will take place on Thursday, Jan 3 from 3:30 – 4:45pm (Hyatt Regency – Grand Suit 5). We hope to see you there.
You might also be interested in the panel “The Global South Novel,” organized by Anne Garland Mahler (out-going member of…[Read more]
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Katherine Hallemeier deposited An art of hunger: Gender and the politics of food distribution in Zakes Mda’s South Africa in the group
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months agoThis article examines the centrality of hunger and food in Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying, The Heart of Redness, and The Whale Caller. While Mda’s work has been the subject of incisive readings of the politics of development in contemporary South Africa, attention to his treatment of hunger, specifically, helps to clarify the centrality of gender to…[Read more]
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Katherine Hallemeier deposited Humanitarianism and the Humanity of Readers in FEMRITE’s True Life Stories in the group
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months agoThis paper examines three FEMRITE collections of ‘true life stories’, Today You Will Understand (2008), Farming Ashes (2009), and I Dare to Say (2012), all of which include testimony of women’s experiences of war in northern Uganda. While these volumes explicitly aim to abet a project of national awareness and reconciliation, they also sel…[Read more]
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Katherine Hallemeier deposited Literary Cosmopolitanisms in Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief and Open City in the group
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months agoThis paper examines cosmopolitanism in Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief (2007) and Open City (2011). The protagonists of both texts maintain cosmopolitan identities largely by embracing an international literary culture in which elite cosmopolitan fiction relays the experiences of marginalized cosmopolitan subjects such as migrant workers a…[Read more]
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Nienke Boer deposited Exploring British India: South African prisoners of war as imperial travel writers, 1899–1902 in the group
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months agoDuring the second South African War (1899–1902), also known as the Anglo-Boer War, the British
War Office supervised the transportation of approximately 24,000 South African prisoners of
war to Bermuda, St. Helena, and British India. Examining previously unstudied memoirs published
immediately following the war by war prisoners held in camps i…[Read more] -
Louise Bethlehem deposited Restless Itineraries in the group
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months agoThis article sets the itineracy of antiapartheid expressive culture to work in relation to exiled South African jazz singer Miriam Makeba. It revisits accounts of transnational cultural circulation on the part of Rob Nixon, Paul Gilroy, and others to argue that the diffusion of South African cultural formations outward from South Africa offers…[Read more]
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Neelofer Qadir deposited Migritude’s Decolonial Lessons in the group
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months agoIn this essay, I trace the deep time of the Indian Ocean through and against which Shailja Patel fabulates the notion of migritude and, in particular, what its valences are for solidarities between black and brown Kenyans and other south-south relationships. Attentive to the multiple voices she invites into the text and the material objects that…[Read more]
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Robert Jackson started the topic CFP: THE GLOBAL SOUTH: "Global Migration and International Film History" in the discussion
Global South on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoSpecial Issue of The Global South: “Global Migration and International Film History”
Deadline for proposals: August 1, 2018
Name: Robert Jackson
Contact email: bob-jackson@utulsa.edu
This special issue of The Global South aims to identify new approaches to a pair of modern phenomena: the global migration of peoples, and the mov…[Read more]
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Nienke Boer started the topic Petition to create new MLA forum: CLCS Indian Ocean in the discussion
Global South on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoDear members,
I’m getting the ball rolling on trying to activate the prospective MLA forum CLCS Indian Ocean. The first step involved getting 35 signatures on the petition at MLA Commons as well as five volunteers for leadership positions. After that, a full proposal will be solicited by the MLA, probably in mid-June.Here is a link to the…[Read more]
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Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra posted an update in the group
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoCFPs for Global South panels at MLA 2019 (Chicago):
**Waste, Garbage, and Effluence in the Global South**
Encounters with waste in narratives both historical and contemporary welcomed. Possible entanglements include animality, comparative modernities, labor and the environment.
Abstracts of 300 words by 15 March 2018; Rosemary J. Jolly…[Read more] -
Leigh Anne Duck replied to the topic Modernism(s) and the Global South: MSA seminar/journal CfP in the discussion
Global South on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoApologies for the type-o: I must stop typing without my glasses!–LA
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John Charles Hawley uploaded the file: CFP: Queer Theory in African Film and Fiction to
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 3 years, 5 months agoHow are African literatures and cultures mediating globalizing frameworks for gender and sexuality and shifting understandings of “queer”? From Woubi Cheri and Dakan, to Stories of Our Lives, African film has begun this conversation. From K. Sello Duiker, to Chinelo Okparanta and Diriye Osman, new voices have invited national debates on these top…[Read more]
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Anne Garland Mahler posted an update in the group
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoWe’ve got three exciting upcoming panels at the MLA Convention that have been organized by the Global South Forum. Please make plans to attend!
Digital Boundaries of the Global South (Co-organized with the Digital Humanities Forum)
Friday, January 6, 5:15- 6:30 PM
Presiding: Élika Ortega, Northeastern Univ.
Speakers: Radhika Gajjala, Bowling Gr…[Read more] -
Barbara J. Eckstein deposited Carbon and Conferences (Again): The Austin MLA in the Flood of 2016 in the group
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months ago“Carbon and Conferences (Again)” offers one person’s experience of trying to get to the Austin MLA conference by a means other than airplanes. It asks fellow MLA members for more collective, mindful attention to the carbon footprint of the conference generally. While acknowledging the intellectual and personal joy in face to face encounters, it…[Read more]
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