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CLCS Global South

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  • 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 SouthCLCS Global South on MLA Commons 3 weeks 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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    Minni Sawhney deposited Violencia e identidades: Elmer Mendoza y la creación de una saga detectivesca in the group Group logo of CLCS Global SouthCLCS Global South on MLA Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago

    The portrayal of narcotrafficking in the novels of Elmer Mendoza.

  • Profile picture of Loren Kruger

    Loren Kruger deposited Brechtian Theatre and the Glocal South The Case from South Africa in the group Group logo of CLCS Global SouthCLCS Global South on MLA Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago

    The glocal scale offers a more productive frame for analyzing the transculturation of theatre, particular Brechtian theory and practice, than either the singularly local or the generalized global. Glocalization brings into focus networks of imaginative representation that may be missed in overbroad applications of global frameworks, particularly…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Louise Bethlehem

    Louise Bethlehem deposited Hydrocolonial Johannesburg in the group Group logo of CLCS Global SouthCLCS Global South on MLA Commons 8 months ago

    Johannesburg is a landlocked city, famously the largest human concentration in the southern hemisphere not located on a river. What opportunities does it afford for hydrocolonial analysis, given Isabel Hofmeyr’s anchoring of that term in oceanic studies? How might a hydrocolonial orientation defamiliarize the relations between surface and depths…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Jennifer M. Wilks

    Jennifer M. Wilks started the topic Three Positions in Black Studies and English at Amherst College in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global SouthCLCS Global South on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago

    Black Studies and English (three positions)The Departments of English and Black Studies at Amherst College invite applications for multiple full-time appointments in the field of Black literature and culture, to begin on July 1, 2022. We define this field broadly to include work in any genre or medium produced by people from Africa, the Caribbean,…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Arif Camoglu

    Arif Camoglu deposited Postkolonyal Teori ve Osmanlı Türk Emperyalizmini Beraber Düsünmek in the group Group logo of CLCS Global SouthCLCS Global South on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months ago

    Osmanlı emperyalizminden ve kolonyalizminden bahsedebilmek için postkolonyal teorinin analitik ufkunu ve kelime dağarcığını esnetmek ve belki de yeniden gözden geçirmek gereklidir. Bu yazının akademik ve politik meramı işte budur Daha açık bir deyişle, Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan örneğiyle önümüzde beliren Osmanlı hayal(et)ini postkolonyal teoriyle k…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Cesar Dominguez

    Cesar Dominguez started the topic Reading Group: (Re)Thinking Post-/De-Colonialism in the Hispanophone World in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global SouthCLCS Global South on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months ago

    I’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]

  • Profile picture of Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra

    Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra started the topic MLA2020: Global South panel in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global SouthCLCS Global South on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month ago

    248 – 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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  • Profile picture of Neelofer Qadir

    Neelofer Qadir started the topic CFP MLA 2020 Roundtable on Global Black Studies in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global SouthCLCS Global South on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago

    Enthusiastically 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 Group logo of CLCS Global SouthCLCS Global South on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago

    Is it possible to know if any of these panels are guaranteed sessions?

  • Profile picture of Amelie Daigle

    Amelie Daigle started the topic CFP: Transnational Families, Transnational Novels in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global SouthCLCS Global South on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago

    July 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]

  • Profile picture of Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra

    Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra started the topic CFPs for Global South forum panels at the 2020 MLA in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global SouthCLCS Global South on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago

    Race, 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]

  • Profile picture of Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra

    Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra started the topic Global South panels at the 2019 MLA in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global SouthCLCS Global South on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month ago

    The 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]

  • Profile picture of Katherine Hallemeier

    Katherine Hallemeier deposited An art of hunger: Gender and the politics of food distribution in Zakes Mda’s South Africa in the group Group logo of CLCS Global SouthCLCS Global South on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months ago

    This 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 Group logo of CLCS Global SouthCLCS Global South on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months ago

    This 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]

  • Profile picture of Katherine Hallemeier

    Katherine Hallemeier deposited Literary Cosmopolitanisms in Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief and Open City in the group Group logo of CLCS Global SouthCLCS Global South on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months ago

    This 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]

  • Profile picture of Nienke Boer

    Nienke Boer deposited Exploring British India: South African prisoners of war as imperial travel writers, 1899–1902 in the group Group logo of CLCS Global SouthCLCS Global South on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months ago

    During 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]

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    Louise Bethlehem deposited Restless Itineraries in the group Group logo of CLCS Global SouthCLCS Global South on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months ago

    This 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 Group logo of CLCS Global SouthCLCS Global South on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months ago

    In 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 Group logo of CLCS Global SouthGlobal South on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months ago

    Special 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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