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  • Profile picture of Juliane Braun

    Juliane Braun deposited Theater of War: Reconstructing (Trans)National Affiliation and Performance Residue in a Divided City in the group Group logo of LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than EnglishLLC 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 Group logo of LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than EnglishLLC 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
    economic interests and it can…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Nicholas T Rinehart

    Nicholas T Rinehart deposited Lateral Reading Lyric Testimony; or, The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in the Americas in the group Group logo of LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than EnglishLLC 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 Group logo of LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than EnglishLLC 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]

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    Juliane Braun deposited The Poetics of Education in Antebellum New Orleans in the group Group logo of LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than EnglishLLC 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]

  • Profile picture of Ahmed Idrissi Alami

    Ahmed Idrissi Alami deposited CFPs: MLA 2021, CLCS Global Arab and Arab American in the group Group logo of LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than EnglishLLC 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.
    Deadline for submissions: Friday, 20 Mar…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Carol Zuses

    Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Group logo of LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than EnglishLiterature 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]

  • Profile picture of Kanika Batra

    Kanika Batra deposited Polygamous Postcolonialism and Transnational Critique in Tess Onwueme’s The Reign of Wazobia in the group Group logo of LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than EnglishLLC 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]

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    Amanda M. Smith started the topic Chiricú Journal CFS – Latinx Literature & Politics – Deadline: December 1 in the discussion Group logo of LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than EnglishLiterature 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, 2017

    Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures invites scholarly articles and creative work that reexamine Latinx literatures in r…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Kanika Batra

    Kanika Batra deposited “Our Own Gayful Rest”: A Postcolonial Archive in the group Group logo of LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than EnglishLLC 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.

  • Profile picture of Lee Skallerup Bessette

    Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Dany Laferrière, Japanses Writer? Borderless Texts, Borderless Trauma in the group Group logo of LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than EnglishLLC 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]

  • Profile picture of Lee Skallerup Bessette

    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 Group logo of LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than EnglishLLC 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 Group logo of LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than EnglishLLC 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

  • Profile picture of Nicholas T Rinehart

    Nicholas T Rinehart deposited “I Talk More of The French”: Creole Folklore and the Federal Writers’ Project in the group Group logo of LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than EnglishLLC 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 Group logo of LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than EnglishLiterature 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.

     

  • Profile picture of Gloria Lee McMillan

    Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at the Commmons in the discussion Group logo of LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than EnglishLiterature of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months ago

    Rust Belt Literature
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    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 Group logo of LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than EnglishLiterature 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 Group logo of LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than EnglishLiterature 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 Group logo of LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than EnglishLiterature of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 8 years ago

    CFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life
    Deadline extension: January 31st

  • Profile picture of Amber Workman

    Amber Workman started the topic CFP: Textos Híbridos. Revista de estudios sobre la crónica latinoamericana in the forum Group logo of LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than EnglishLiterature 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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