Phillip Lundberg deleted the file: Spiritual Underpinnings of Josef K.’s eXistence. from
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 4 months, 1 week agoHelene Meyers deposited Got Jewish Milk? Screening Epstein and Van Sant for Intersectional Film History in the group
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 8 months agoA B ST R A C T
Rob Epstein’s The Times of Harvey Milk (USA, 1984) and Gus Van Sant’s Milk (USA,
2008), the two major films that narrate the life and tragically dramatic death of gay
politician and activist Harvey Milk (1930–1978), are widely recognized as part of
the queer cinematic canon but are less often categorized as Jewish films. While…[Read more]Laurence D. Roth started the topic CFP: American Jews and Music: Assembling New Canons and Contexts in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 9 months agoSpecial Issue of Studies in American Jewish Literature
Guest editors: Jonathan Freedman and Laurence Roth
If the first major waves of popular interest in, philanthropic funding of, and scholarship on contemporary Jewish music and songwriters in the U.S. have finally receded, they’ve left a treasure in their wake. From Orthodox popular music and…[Read more]
Veronica Schanoes replied to the topic CFP: Jewishness and Postcoloniality in Literature, Culture and Theory in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 1 year agoThank you so much! I’m certain they will be.
–Veronica
Sarah P. Casteel replied to the topic CFP: Jewishness and Postcoloniality in Literature, Culture and Theory in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 1 year agoDear Veronica,
Thanks very much for your interest in our cfp. Below are the references you requested–I hope they are helpful!
All the best,
Sarah
Boyarin, Jonathan. Storm from Paradise: The Politics of Jewish Memory. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1992.
Cheyette, Bryan. Diasporas of the Mind: Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the N…[Read more]
Veronica Schanoes replied to the topic CFP: Jewishness and Postcoloniality in Literature, Culture and Theory in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 1 year agoI’m sorry to show my ignorance, but these topics sound really important to a project I’m working on, and I don’t know the sources you are citing. I’d love to look them up. Would you be able to give me the citations you reference in the parentheses? Thank you so much. Again, I apologize if I should already know this.
–Veronica Schanoes
Sarah P. Casteel started the topic CFP: Jewishness and Postcoloniality in Literature, Culture and Theory in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 1 year ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>Jewishness and Postcoloniality in Literature, Culture and Theory</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>CFP – Special Issue of The Journal of Jewish Identities</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Guest Edited by Sarah Phillips Casteel, Anna Guttman and Isabelle Hesse</p>
Similarities between Jewish and colonial subjects i…[Read more]-
Phillip Lundberg replied to the topic Kafka as "the Modern Man" = = "K." in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoFrom Walter Sokel’s famous Kafka Study – Fr. K. Tragik & Ironie:
“If Kafka’s writings have a prophetic ring to them, so it is because he made the split {Spaltung} of contemporary human consciousness into two conflicting aspects, namely the decent, respectable façade that we all are quite comfortable displaying and, on the other hand, the ho…[Read more]
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Phillip Lundberg deleted the file: Spiritual Underpinnings of Josef K.’s eXistence. from
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months ago 
Daniela Goldfine started the topic Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThe editors of a volume titled “Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production” invite proposals from potential contributors. The volume is planned for publication with Lexington Books as part of their Latin American Gender and Sexualities series edited by Carolina Rocha.
Essay proposals should explicitly address issues and…[Read more]
Saul Noam Zaritt started the topic Second Annual Call for Submissions: In geveb, A Journal of Yiddish Studies in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoIn geveb is pleased to announce its Second Annual Call for Submissions for our Fall 2016 publishing cycle.
In geveb is an open-access digital forum for the publication of peer-reviewed academic articles, the translation and annotation of Yiddish texts, the exchange of pedagogical materials, and a blog of Yiddish cultural life.
In geveb began…[Read more]
Roberta Rosenberg started the topic CFP: Deadline February 15th: MLA Teaching Options in Jewish American Literature in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoMLA Call For Proposals:
Options for Teaching Jewish American Literature
Essay proposals are invited for a volume in the MLA’s Options for Teaching series entitled Teaching Jewish American Literature, to be edited by Roberta Rosenberg and Rachel Rubinstein. The purposes of this volume are to create important links between the innovative s…[Read more]
Philip Smith deposited Spiegelman Studies Part 2 of 2: Breakdowns, No Towers and the Rest of the Canon in the group
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoArt Spiegelman is one of the most-discussed creators in Comic Book Studies. His Pulitzer-winning work Maus (1980 and 1991) was, alongside The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and Watchmen (1987), the catalyst to a sea change in the commercial and critical fortunes of the alternative comic book during the mid-1980s. It has been a landmark text in…[Read more]
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Philip Smith deposited Spiegelman Studies Part 1 of 2: Maus in the group
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoArt Spiegelman is one of the most-discussed creators in Comic Book Studies. His Pulitzer-winning work Maus (1980 and 1991) was, alongside The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and Watchmen (1987), the catalyst to a sea change in the commercial and critical fortunes of the alternative comic book during the mid-1980s. It has been a landmark text in…[Read more]
Helene Meyers deposited The Unmarked Chains of Paper Clips in the group
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoArgues that the documentary Paper Clips exemplifies the ways in which Holocaust education can unwittingly foster competing victimization narratives between blacks and Jews, sanitize both European and U.S. history, and serve subtle
but pernicious forms of supersessionism.Helene Meyers deposited “Woman in Gold” in the group
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoFilm review of Woman in Gold (2015) as a cinematic rendering of the material turn in Holocaust memory.
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Roberta Rosenberg started the topic Join a dinner discussion group at MLA in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoI’d like to find a small group interested in going to dinner on Friday or Saturday nights. If interested, please write back to Roberta Rosenberg at rrosenb@cnu.edu
Elana Hornblass Dushey deposited Tortured Zionism: Messianism, Ambivalence, and Israel in post-Holocaust Jewish American literature in the group
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis dissertation examines post-Holocaust, Jewish American novelists that utilize messianism in their narratives to negotiate ambivalence about Zionism. Studying novels from the mid-1980’s to 2013, I look at the triangular relationship between Jewish American identification, the Holocaust, and Israel, to explore major topics in contemporary J…[Read more]
Suzanne England deposited Driving Miss Daisy as Memory Theatre in the group
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months agoAlfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, Driving Miss Daisy (1986) is examined as a site of memory including: Uhry’s own memories upon which the characters and the play itself are based; the role of memory stories, settings and objects in the unfolding of the relationship be-tween its main characters, Daisy Wertham and her chauffeur, Hoke Col…[Read more]
Heidi Kaufman started the topic CFP: ACLA Caribbean/Jewish Intersections in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoCFP: Caribbean/Jewish Intersections in (Post)Colonial Literary and Print Cultures
We are soliciting papers for a seminar that we have proposed for the upcoming American Comparative Literature Association conference (Harvard University, March 17-20, 2016). Paper abstracts can be submitted through the ACLA portal from September 1-23: http://www.acla…[Read more]
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