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Jay Rajiva deposited “Secrecy, Sacrifice, and God on the Island: Christianity and Colonialism in Coetzee’s Foe and Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe.” in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 1 month agoThis essay argues that the tension in Coetzee’s reading of Robinson Crusoe springs from the exposure of the Christian secret in both the colonial enterprises of the characters and the authorial presences of Defoe and Coetzee. My argument draws on Jacques Derrida’s The Gift of Death, which outlines how Christianity tacitly incorporates (but doe…[Read more]
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cynthia tompkins deposited call for papers in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoCall for Proposals
Media, Lingualisms, Translations: Technologies of Language and Power
Conference to be held November 13-14, 2020; hosted by the School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University, Tempe.
Keynote speakers: Jean-Noël Robert (Collège de France, Paris)
Lourdes Ortega (Georgetown University, W…[Read more] -
Scott Challener deposited Latinx Literatures and Cultures in the U.S. and Beyond in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoThis course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will concentrate our attention on works by Chicanos, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Dominican Americans. We will consider how these works represent and participate in the upheavals that characterize the…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty deposited “Violence Has Changed Me” Private Trauma and Identity Crisis in Post-9/11 American Poetry in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 5 months agoThis article seeks to explore into the impact of 9/11 tragedy on the private lives of ordinary people and individuals and into the associated theme of identity crisis, as reflected in four important post-9/11 poems – “Someone Says They Looked Like Cartwheeling Birds” by Lyn Lifshin, “Making Love After September 11, 2001” by Aliki Barnstone…[Read more]
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Jefferson Gatrall started the topic Crisis and Chronicity: International Conference in the Medical Humanities in the discussion
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 7 months agoThe Montclair State University Medical Humanities Program and the Waiting Times Research Group are pleased to sponsor “Chronicity and Crisis: Time in the Medical Humanities.” Conference to be held at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey, October 25–26, 2019.
To register: please click [Read more]
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Marisa Parham deposited Hughes, Cullen, and the In-sites of Loss in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 months, 4 weeks agoThis essay explores how Pierre Nora’s sites of memory work a specific cultural function through what Melvin Dixon refers to as “a memory that ultimately rewrites history.” I look at two of the most well-known poems of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and Countee Cullen’s “Heritage,” one of which reveals a…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic CFP Routledge Literary Handbook (Lit. and Class) in the discussion
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 months agoWe have passed peer review. Theory will be important in this text. We are looking for essays involving literature viewed through class theory. Let us see what you have!
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Tom White deposited The Future Demands Work: William Morris’s utopian medievalism in an age of precarity, flexibility, and automation in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 months agoIMC paper for panel 374 Medieval Futura 1: Now, sponsored by the Medieval Studies Institute, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington and organised by Dr Andrea Whitacre.
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Marisa Parham deposited Saying “Yes”: Textual Traumas in Octavia Butler’s Kindred in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 months, 1 week agoThe problem of the “yes,” of affirming an historical identity that is potentially harmful to oneself, troubles some of the imaginative leaps necessary to how readers desire to identify with texts. With that in mind, this article reads Octavia Butler’s 1979 novel Kindred as a story about memory, history, and embodiment as written both on and thr…[Read more]
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Louise Bethlehem deposited Stenographic fictions: Mary Benson’s At the Still Point and the South African political trial in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 months, 2 weeks agoFrom the mid-1960s onward, compilations of the speeches and trial addresses of South African opponents of apartheid focused attention on the apartheid regime despite intensified repression in the wake of the Rivonia Trial. Mary Benson’s novel, At the Still Point, transposes the political trial into fiction. Its “stenographic” codes of repre…[Read more]
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Edwige Tamalet Talbayev deposited CFP: Re-membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean International Conference (Toulouse, March 26-27, 2020) in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 10 months agoWe are inviting proposals for the forthcoming “Re-membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean” International Conference that will be held on March 26-27, 2020 in Toulouse, France (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès).
Abstracts (300 words) are due by September 15, 2019 to yasser elhariry (yasser.elhariry@dartmouth.edu), Isabelle Keller-Privat (isa.…[Read more] -
Martin Paul Eve deposited Reading Redaction: Symptomatic Metadata, Erasure Poetry, and Mark Blacklock’s I’m Jack in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 12 months agoIn this article, through a reading of Mark Blacklock’s 2015 novel, I’m Jack, alongside the history of erasure poetry, I suggest that an apt literary-critical metaphor for reading redaction in contemporary literature comes from the term “metadata.” This article schematizes the ways in which redaction can work in literary contexts and points to the…[Read more]
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Rita Felski deposited Being Diplomatic: ANT and Literary Studies in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 1 year agoA talk given at the ANT workshop at the University of Southern Denmark in 2017. I develop some of these ideas in chapter 4 of my current book
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Rita Felski deposited Latour and LIterary Studies in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 1 year agoWhat is the relevance of Bruno Latour’s work for literary studies?
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Rita Felski deposited Comparison and Translation: A Perspective from Actor-Network-Theory in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 1 year agoHow might ANT help us rethink questions of comparison and translation?
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Rita Felski deposited Introduction to Critical and Postcritical Reading (undergraduate course) in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 1 year agoHow and why do we read? And what is the relationship between academic reading and the reading we do for pleasure? This course is divided into two parts. The first part, on critical reading, surveys some of the most influential critical approaches in recent decades, including structuralism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, feminism,…[Read more]
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Marlene Manoff deposited Archive and Library in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 1 year, 1 month agoArchives and libraries operate within a complex web of social, political and economic forces. Digital technologies, globalization, the corporatization of the academy, and increasing commercial control of the scholarly record are just some of the myriad forces shaping their evolution. Libraries and archives in turn have shaped the production of…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months agoFront matter for Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century
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Oana Popescu-Sandu deposited “From Minimalist Representation to Excessive Interpretation: Contextualizing 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.” in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months agoThe article examines the Romanian and American reception of Cristian Mungiu’s 4 weeks, 3 months, 2 weeks (2007), arguing that the film’s representational minimalism indirectly caused an excess of interpretation across cultural contexts. This overinterpretation was possible because the film’s aesthetic minimalism encouraged viewers to decode the s…[Read more]
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Massih Zekavat deposited The Contingent Dynamics of Political Humor in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months agoCFP for a special issue of the European Journal of Humour Research
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