MLA Commons | CLCS Global South | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-south/ Activity feed for the group, CLCS Global South. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:09:45 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 305f72f88ef6b462e0f83f960a869d1c Juan Meneses started the topic "World Literature and the Global South: Frictions and New Horizons" MLA 27 in the forum CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-south/forum/topic/world-literature-and-the-global-south-frictions-and-new-horizons-mla-27-2/ Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:16:57 -0500 Dear colleagues (apologies for the earlier garbles message),

 

Please consider sending an abstract to the following CFP for the session: “World Literature and the Global South: Frictions and New Horizons” for the MLA 2027 conference.

 

I would appreciate it if you could also share it with interested colleagues and/or through your…[Read more]

]]> 0 506c4f721ec39fc7609f81157d8895bf Juan Meneses started the topic "World Literature and the Global South: Frictions and New Horizons" MLA 27 in the forum CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-south/forum/topic/world-literature-and-the-global-south-frictions-and-new-horizons-mla-27/ Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:11:21 -0500 <div>Dear colleagues,</div>
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<div>Please consider sending an abstract to the following CFP for the session: “World Literature and the Global South: Frictions and New Horizons” for the MLA 2027 conference.</div>
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<div>I would appreciate it if you could also share it with interested colleagues and/or through your…[Read more]

]]> 0 2665d8e5e73749cd70eeb39700b50387 Peter Leman started the topic CFP: World Literature and Disappearance (Special Issue of ARIEL) in the forum CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-south/forum/topic/cfp-world-literature-and-disappearance-special-issue-of-ariel-4/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:35:59 -0500 Call For Papers: “World Literature and Disappearance” 
Special Issue of <b>ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature</b>

Enforced disappearance is widely recognized as a crime in international law, with legislation that reflects the experiences of Latin America dictatorships and focuses on arbitrary detention and torture or extr…[Read more]

]]> 0 667457e090bde0870c5254716390033e Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes journal on "Australia And..." in the forum CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-south/forum/topic/cfp-special-topic-in-antipodes-journal-on-australia-and-5/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 01:14:20 -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 40ed6fb6be09ce3dbf6426f1aa9b1a96 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New article on Turkish Girls' Studies in the discussion CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-south/forum/topic/new-article-on-turkish-girls-studies-4/ Sun, 30 Jun 2024 08:40:43 -0400 Dear All,

I am a Turkish researcher who is an associate professor in sociology with a focus on Turkish girlhood studies from İstanbul Aydın University, Turkey. I recently published an article with the title “A Study on the Poem “Zamane Kızları” (Girls of Today) Regarding the Representations of Young Turkish Girls from a Male-centered Perspec…[Read more]

]]> 0 6ff35d4aa7ed01e6518acbabdee3c67a Louise Bethlehem deposited The Anthropocene and the Environmental Humanities in the group CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887204/ Sun, 26 May 2024 04:09:44 -0400 Interim bibliography on the Anthropocene and the Environmental Humanities generated in conjunction with the Rift Futurism Project supported by a grant from the ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 3011006089), May 2024

]]> 0 99213bca20136fcf6dc0de82c25cdaae Louise Bethlehem deposited Lauren Beukes and African Futurism Interim Bibliography in the group CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887043/ Fri, 24 May 2024 04:04:09 -0400 Research at the intersection between the African Futurism and the work of post-apartheid writer, Lauren Beukes.

]]> 0 f157d95c2a9795cdca73ef7c4196a622 Minni Sawhney deposited Buddhism in the Oeuvre of Severo Sarduy in the group CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1879219/ Tue, 12 Mar 2024 03:00:07 -0400 The exiled Cuban French novelist, essayist, poet Severo Sarduy (1937-1993) converted to Mahayana Buddhism in 1971 after his journeys to Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim. Untramelled by the rituals of his new faith, he remained unabashed in his critique of socio – political Buddhism (as in the novel Maitreya). Instead, Buddhism for him meant a creativity t…[Read more]

]]> 0 b1a09f347ac59938364fc6ddda887573 Arif Camoglu deposited Provincializing Romanticism: Ottoman Hayaliyyun and Literary Globality in the Nineteenth Century in the group CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1868239/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 04:01:57 -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 c0a25ef1a9c97e1f00e2b1678c2d1c8a Arif Camoglu deposited Loving Sovereignty: Political Mysticism, Seyh Galib, and Giorgio Agamben in the group CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866783/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 04:02:58 -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 3986ad61e373a5811f4b45f4ea223867 Arif Camoglu deposited Inter-imperial Dimensions of Turkish Literary Modernity in the group CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1865835/ Sat, 25 Nov 2023 04:01:51 -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 0f94e87cabad77e59bdcbab276148dfc Mike Phillips deposited West by Northeast: The Western in Brazil in the group CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1863750/ Tue, 07 Nov 2023 03:07:30 -0500 This chapter examines the relationship between American Westerns and Brazilian Nordesterns, films set in the arid northeastern region known as the sertão. US cultural and economic imperialism, in Brazil and throughout Latin America, is both cause and effect of persistent underdevelopment. The northward flow of natural resources has long been…[Read more]

]]> 0 c710307899d3c3c43713c898c95ddd8b Stephanie Rountree started the topic CFP: Record, Document, Archive [edited collection, advance contract LSU Press] in the discussion CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-south/forum/topic/cfp-record-document-archive-edited-collection-advance-contract-lsu-press-17/ Thu, 07 Sep 2023 20:32:13 -0400 Record, Document, Archive: Constructing the South Out of Region [edited collection]

Under advance contract with Louisiana State University Press

Editors: Stephanie Rountree, Lisa Hinrichsen, and Gina Caison

Proposals (500 words): November 1, 2023

Completed Chapters (7,000 words): March 15, 2024

 

As the double meaning of our…[Read more]

]]> 0 2ec07b97e8512cf656e80c761b044b69 Sylvia Fernandez deposited Global North and South Collaborative Efforts towards an Anti-Colonial Digital Humanities in the group CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841602/ Sun, 16 Apr 2023 02:28:13 -0400 This presentation will discuss the pilot version of the “Urarina Digital Heritage Project,” a multilingual (English, Spanish and Urarina), Global North (United States) and South (Peru) collaborative effort between scholars and a digital humanities center at an R1 research institution in the United States and the Indigenous Urarina community in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 336cea4c47856ef59b437a783011114f Amel Abbady deposited Mobility, Survival, and the Female Body in Laila Lalami᾿s Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits in the group CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841273/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:09:54 -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 d05ab32c4a7f20266313bfcd063e18d0 Nesrine Chahine started the topic Nominations for CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Forum in the discussion CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-south/forum/topic/nominations-for-clcs-global-arab-and-arab-american-forum/ Fri, 13 Jan 2023 16:38:19 -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 7f9783972fde3f72d58e2a63ac756728 Minni Sawhney deposited Violencia e identidades: Elmer Mendoza y la creación de una saga detectivesca in the group CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1826716/ Fri, 16 Dec 2022 03:49:21 -0500 The portrayal of narcotrafficking in the novels of Elmer Mendoza.

]]> 0 a570a731760e51a1de81e2a0a36dff51 Loren Kruger deposited Brechtian Theatre and the Glocal South The Case from South Africa in the group CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1817352/ Thu, 13 Oct 2022 02:23:38 -0400 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]

]]> 0 21fe261065c3a4401c3c7f05b83c82f2 Louise Bethlehem deposited Hydrocolonial Johannesburg in the group CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1783366/ Tue, 07 Jun 2022 03:48:44 -0400 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]

]]> 0 2366e85d7705e474576817ee736af969 Jennifer M. Wilks started the topic Three Positions in Black Studies and English at Amherst College in the discussion CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-south/forum/topic/three-positions-in-black-studies-and-english-at-amherst-college-2/ Mon, 18 Oct 2021 23:28:04 -0400 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]

]]> 0 e317bbe8a96af68506a71d85348fdfdf Arif Camoglu deposited Postkolonyal Teori ve Osmanlı Türk Emperyalizmini Beraber Düsünmek in the group CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1736587/ Thu, 29 Apr 2021 03:48:43 -0400 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]

]]> 0 312951fa9bd45d9e8a814f7ed49deaaf Cesar Dominguez started the topic Reading Group: (Re)Thinking Post-/De-Colonialism in the Hispanophone World in the discussion CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-south/forum/topic/reading-group-rethinking-post-de-colonialism-in-the-hispanophone-world-2/ Sat, 02 May 2020 11:22:57 -0400 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]

]]> 0 a2ec156ba7fcfc17b18e246f7e88ef87 Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra started the topic MLA2020: Global South panel in the discussion CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-south/forum/topic/mla2020-global-south-panel/ Sat, 21 Dec 2019 16:07:50 -0500 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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]]> 0 3657a4886914a38add72ce3f7949e45b Neelofer Qadir started the topic CFP MLA 2020 Roundtable on Global Black Studies in the discussion CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-south/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2020-roundtable-on-global-black-studies/ Tue, 05 Mar 2019 17:29:24 -0500 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]

]]> 0 84ddae06e1991a4329a0610593f4cfca Katherine Hummel replied to the topic CFPs for Global South forum panels at the 2020 MLA in the discussion CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-south/forum/topic/cfps-for-global-south-forum-panels-at-the-2020-mla/#post-1020288 Sun, 03 Mar 2019 23:57:16 -0500 Is it possible to know if any of these panels are guaranteed sessions?

]]> 0 045bd4c696f02d5c9a10a49154b54eb8 Amelie Daigle started the topic CFP: Transnational Families, Transnational Novels in the discussion CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-south/forum/topic/cfp-transnational-families-transnational-novels-4/ Mon, 11 Feb 2019 22:03:10 -0500 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]

]]> 0 65d351aa52472e4a881039a5efa2d801 Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra started the topic CFPs for Global South forum panels at the 2020 MLA in the discussion CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-south/forum/topic/cfps-for-global-south-forum-panels-at-the-2020-mla/ Mon, 11 Feb 2019 20:33:02 -0500 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]

]]> 0 b2a27d2e19b763d48e078c6bbb35cdc0 Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra started the topic Global South panels at the 2019 MLA in the discussion CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-south/forum/topic/global-south-panels-at-the-2019-mla/ Mon, 31 Dec 2018 21:15:08 -0500 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]

]]> 0 08e7addd3578adc47e41c7331749bcc1 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1621529/ Fri, 19 Oct 2018 04:12:09 -0400 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]

]]> 0 fb3319bc0c1771990de4f8ab84291245 Katherine Hallemeier deposited Humanitarianism and the Humanity of Readers in FEMRITE's True Life Stories in the group CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1621526/ Fri, 19 Oct 2018 04:07:57 -0400 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]

]]> 0 d007467d30cfc16406ce5efd19cdfc23 Katherine Hallemeier deposited Literary Cosmopolitanisms in Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief and Open City in the group CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1621396/ Thu, 18 Oct 2018 04:17:51 -0400 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]

]]> 0 294c006df4b73accc7b6e7fd3f2bb485 Nienke Boer deposited Exploring British India: South African prisoners of war as imperial travel writers, 1899–1902 in the group CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1621159/ Mon, 15 Oct 2018 16:28:20 -0400 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]

]]> 0 dd93e5daa554f14dfe5459b6eb00db53 Louise Bethlehem deposited Restless Itineraries in the group CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1621017/ Sun, 14 Oct 2018 16:28:22 -0400 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]

]]> 0 1eec40703d418f7424be92dbca47dc06 Neelofer Qadir deposited Migritude’s Decolonial Lessons in the group CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1620996/ Sun, 14 Oct 2018 03:48:43 -0400 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]

]]> 0 ec249db00a64e2088ce1f2b7d7868df9 Robert Jackson started the topic CFP: THE GLOBAL SOUTH: "Global Migration and International Film History" in the discussion Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-south/forum/topic/cfp-the-global-south-global-migration-and-international-film-history/ Thu, 10 May 2018 17:40:22 -0400 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]

]]> 0 55247891cd487b38fda2d3592c5a67a9 Nienke Boer started the topic Petition to create new MLA forum: CLCS Indian Ocean in the discussion Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-south/forum/topic/petition-to-create-new-mla-forum-clcs-indian-ocean/ Fri, 16 Mar 2018 09:38:26 -0400 Dear 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]

]]> 0 f9e96401fa892dc99286b4711f94d82f Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra posted an update in the group CLCS Global South: CFPs for Global South panels at MLA 2019 […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1602592/ Mon, 05 Mar 2018 20:02:08 -0500 CFPs 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]

]]> 0 3b6e16af79ad008d7789f480dc1f967b Leigh Anne Duck replied to the topic Modernism(s) and the Global South: MSA seminar/journal CfP in the discussion Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-south/forum/topic/modernisms-and-the-global-south-msa-seminarjournal-cfp/#post-1013968 Sun, 02 Apr 2017 22:05:16 -0400 Apologies for the type-o: I must stop typing without my glasses!–LA

]]> 0 cecc0424e6e9cb87b5e158186b5bb0d5 John Charles Hawley uploaded the file: CFP: Queer Theory in African Film and Fiction to CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1563693/ Thu, 02 Mar 2017 17:48:51 -0500 How 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]

]]> 0 45b33daad24c0394df0b55d2d28d0e99 Anne Garland Mahler posted an update in the group CLCS Global South: We’ve got three exciting upcoming panels at the MLA C […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1555141/ Fri, 09 Dec 2016 01:15:17 -0500 We’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]

]]> 0 99412bd7f4f850c14e55b52a3888a6d8 Barbara J. Eckstein deposited Carbon and Conferences (Again): The Austin MLA in the Flood of 2016 in the group CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552746/ Wed, 26 Oct 2016 19:16:39 -0400 “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]

]]> 0 9512dffe7ea4c34bddca6b3261732c73 Jedidiah Evans deposited Thomas Wolfe, Transnationalism, and the Really Deep South in the group CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552586/ Mon, 24 Oct 2016 23:41:05 -0400 This paper argues that there is a need to look beyond what is merely “homeward” in the work of Thomas Wolfe. I take up Wai Chee Dimock’s expansive conception of American literature as “a crisscrossing set of pathways, open-ended and ever multiplying, weaving in and out of other geographies, other languages and cultures,” demonstrating how Thomas…[Read more]

]]> 0 d6b5893add44ed86e186196fb192fa54 Anne Garland Mahler started the topic ACLA Panel on the Global South and the Question of Method in the discussion Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-south/forum/topic/acla-panel-on-the-global-south-and-the-question-of-method/ Mon, 12 Sep 2016 20:12:20 -0400 http://www.acla.org/global-south-and-question-method
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Organizer: Magali Armillas-Tiseyra
Co-Organizer: Anne Garland Mahler
Co-Organizer: Duncan McEachern Yoon

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]]> 0 0475e4d1b05851c7c943392ffc3672f0 Peter J. Kalliney deposited Modernism in a Global Context (introduction) in the group CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/539485/ Mon, 25 Jan 2016 14:36:08 -0500 Exploring the transnational dimension of literary modernism and its increasing centrality to our understanding of 20th-century literary culture, Modernism in a Global Context surveys the key issues and debates central to the ‘global turn’ in contemporary Modernist Studies.
Topics covered include:
– Transnational literary exchange
-…[Read more]

]]> 0 37de38bad6ecb2ee66fbae1ebd2ea9d9 Gaurav G. Desai deposited Oceans Connect: The Indian Ocean and African Identities. in the group CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/533421/ Sat, 31 Oct 2015 18:09:20 -0400 Published as part of the Theories and Methodologies section on Oceanic Studies.

]]> 0 b3a7f49664b2e4f03e860381a38fc08e Louise Bethlehem deposited Lauren Beukes’s post-apartheid dystopia: inhabiting Moxyland in the group CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/532174/ Thu, 22 Oct 2015 08:37:43 -0400 This article reads South African science-fiction writer Lauren Beukes’s first novel, Moxyland (2008) set in a futuristic Cape Town, from the perspective of Lindsay Bremner’s notion of “citiness”– or how cities produce the modernity of the subjects who inhabit them. The novel is remarkable for its dependence on the social geography of the South A…[Read more]

]]> 0 1a9cbff567127c2e96b697b611cd0e7c Victor Goldgel-Carballo deposited The Reappropriation of Poverty and the Art of “Making Do” in Contemporary Argentine Cultural Productions in the group CLCS Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/531515/ Mon, 19 Oct 2015 20:38:17 -0400 Through an analysis of two post-crisis films (Estrellas, Federico León
and Marcos Martínez, 2007; El nexo, Sebastián Antico, 2005) shot in
the largest slum in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this essay sketches the
terms for conceptualizing a cultural dimension of the Global South
marked by the aesthetic reappropriation of poverty. Working ag…[Read more]

]]> 0 bfcab8f32c3a3e9b6113c1e120a7588f John Charles Hawley started the topic executive committee election in the discussion Global South https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-south/forum/topic/executive-committee-election/ Sat, 17 Oct 2015 23:44:33 -0400 I’m honored to be one of two nominees for election to the executive committee of this newly formalized group.  I’ve served on three other MLA executive committees (Religion and Literature; Lit in English other than British and American; Postcolonial Studies), and have have a delegate to the assembly.  The titles of the last two of those c…[Read more]

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