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Juliane Braun deposited Theater of War: Reconstructing (Trans)National Affiliation and Performance Residue in a Divided City in the group
LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
This essay examines ethnic strife and cultural friction in New Orleans during the Mexican-American war. Specifically, it explores how the Crescent City’s anglophone and francophone populations navigated the tension between national and transnational affiliation through performance. By considering both the material and the immaterial aspects of p…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited El mito del pluricentrismo desde le realidad de la traducción in the group
LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 1 year ago
The present work analyzes the application of the pluricentric interpretation
to the Spanish language from the repercussion that this current may have
to correctly interpret the complex reality of Spanish in the United States. The
concept of pluricentrism is not innocent, it tries to favor certain political and
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Nicholas T Rinehart deposited Lateral Reading Lyric Testimony; or, The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in the Americas in the group
LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
Canon, tradition, and origin anchor developmental accounts of Black literary history, describing the forward movement from a singular beginning in terms of birth, maturation, and inheritance. This model delimits a specialized field of study, but also obscures texts, practices, and archives that do not cohere with it. In the study of slave…[Read more]
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Juliane Braun deposited Re-Visiting the Creole Myth: Race and Ethnicity on the New Orleans Stage in the group
LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
Scholars who have studied the contested meaning of “creole” in Louisiana have
typically maintained that the “Creole myth,” that is the strategic redefinition of
the term “creole” to refer to the white descendants of Louisiana’s original French
and Spanish settlers, emerged during or shortly after the Civil War. Drawing on
a newspaper art…[Read more] -
Juliane Braun deposited The Poetics of Education in Antebellum New Orleans in the group
LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
Published in New Orleans in 1845 by a group of free men of color, Les Cenelles: Choix de poésies indigènes is now commonly recognized as the first collection of African American poetry. As a testament to and expression of the intellectual prowess of New Orleans’s francophone free Black community, Les Cenelles deserves to be read as a formally int…[Read more]
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Ahmed Idrissi Alami deposited CFPs: MLA 2021, CLCS Global Arab and Arab American in the group
LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago
Global Indigeneity
Considers theoretical and political questions raised by the model of “trans-indigeneity” paying attention to indigenous mythologies, histories of settler colonialism, and questions of comparison, translation, resistance, language, and appropriation. 300-word abstract and short bio.
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Literature of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months ago
The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Kanika Batra deposited Polygamous Postcolonialism and Transnational Critique in Tess Onwueme’s The Reign of Wazobia in the group
LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months ago
Nigerian authors have consistently and effectively critiqued insidious connections between
masculinity, political power, religious fundamentalism, and capitalist interests. The unstable
political structures in Nigeria since the 1970s have led to such critiques. This essay deploys the
idea of polygamy in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the S…[Read more] -
Amanda M. Smith started the topic Chiricú Journal CFS – Latinx Literature & Politics – Deadline: December 1 in the discussion
Literature of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months ago
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Vox Latinx: Literature and Politics in the Twenty-first Century
Amanda M. Smith, Issue Editor
Alfredo Franco, Creative Editor
John Nieto-Phillips, Editor
Deadline: December 1, 2017Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures invites scholarly articles and creative work that reexamine Latinx literatures in r…[Read more]
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Kanika Batra deposited “Our Own Gayful Rest”: A Postcolonial Archive in the group
LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months ago
My subject is an archive of gay and lesbian activism that helps us understand a postcolonial counterpublic. The project I undertake is of historical recovery and theoretical elaboration of the specificities of postcolonial sexuality-based movements as necessary and long overdue supplements to global sexual activism.
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Dany Laferrière, Japanses Writer? Borderless Texts, Borderless Trauma in the group
LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months ago
Author Dany Laferrière, after a seven year hiatus from writing, produced the book Je suis un écrivain japonais (2008) [I am a Japanese Writer]. The title recalls statements he has frequently made in interviews about how much he hates being pigeon-holed by national or racial labels. The book itself is an examination of what (or who) defines s…[Read more]
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Becoming a Gwo Nèg in 1970s Haiti: Dany Laferrière’s Coming-of-Age Film Le Goût des Jeunes Filled (On the Verge of Fever) in the group
LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months ago
When all men are either dead, exiled, thugs or zombies in a world ruled through violence and terror by a President-for-Life and his son, how is a young boy expected to come of age and forge his own identity? Le Goût des Jeunes Filles (On the Verge of Fever), a 2004 film about Fanfan, a 15-year-old boy, set in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on the same…[Read more]
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Kanika Batra deposited City Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke in the group
LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months ago
City Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke
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Nicholas T Rinehart deposited “I Talk More of The French”: Creole Folklore and the Federal Writers’ Project in the group
LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago
This essay tackles a question that has preoccupied Francophone postcolonial studies for several decades—namely, what is believed almost unanimously to be the absence of a Francophone equivalent to the slave narrative in English. My article challenges this assumption by reconciling the legacies of slavery in both the Anglophone and Francophone “…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at the Commmons in the discussion
Literature of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months ago
Our pardon for the omission of areas such as bordering Windsor, Canada, and Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico, both known as Rust Belts bordering our US RB. You are most welcome. We have revised our welcome message to reflect this change.
Also, we are seeking people who wish to host a Rust Belt Literature panel for the next MLA national convention.
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at the Commmons in the discussion
Literature of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months ago
Rust Belt Literature
Public Group active 5 hours, 52 minutes ago
<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group.
This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust Belt, defined here as industrial communities in the United States. Those who have been affected by the…[Read more]
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Raúl Coronado started the topic Latina/o studies CFP's in the discussion
Literature of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months ago
Please consider submitting proposals for the following CFP’s.
1. CFP: Latina/o Materialisms, guaranteed session sponsored by the Latina and Latino Forum
queer, feminist, cultural, new &/or old materialisms; Marxisms; text as material object, comparative Chicana/o, PuertoRican, CubanAm, CentralAm, DominicanAm print cultures & histories of…[Read more]
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Mariana Romo-Carmona replied to the topic CFP: Textos Híbridos. Revista de estudios sobre la crónica latinoamericana in the discussion
Literature of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months ago
Excellent– I posted your announcement in our Commons, the Graduate Center at CUNY.
Mariana
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María Gil Poisa uploaded the file: CFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life to
Literature of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 8 years ago
CFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life
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Amber Workman started the topic CFP: Textos Híbridos. Revista de estudios sobre la crónica latinoamericana in the forum
Literature of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months ago
Textos Híbridos, the electronic journal dedicated to the study of the Latin American chronicle from the Conquest to the present day, invites the submission of critical studies on the Latin American literary chronicle for its JULY 2015 issue. The journal seeks to lend additional visibility to the chronicle as an important genre and to promote d…[Read more]
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