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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 9 months, 3 weeks agoThe 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 1 year, 8 months agoNigerian 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 1 year, 9 months agoCALL 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 2 years, 1 month agoMy 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 2 years, 3 months agoAuthor 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 2 years, 3 months agoWhen 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 2 years, 4 months agoCity Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke
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Nicholas 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 2 years, 7 months agoThis 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 2 years, 10 months agoOur 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 2 years, 10 months agoRust 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 3 years, 4 months agoPlease 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 4 years, 3 months agoExcellent– 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 4 years, 6 months agoCFP: 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 4 years, 9 months agoTextos 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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Gayle B. Rogers started the topic CFP: Modernist Studies Association (Nov. 6-9, Pittsburgh, PA) in the forum
Literature of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoThe Modernist Studies Association invites proposals of all types for its annual conference. We are especially interested in the work of scholars who expand the field of modernism and avant-garde studies in new directions through studies of less canonical figures. The conference will be held in the historic Omni William Penn hotel in downtown P…[Read more]
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María Gil Poisa started the topic Call for Papers: Social Movements in the forum
Literature of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY’S FOURTH HISPANIC STUDIES ANNUAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE
Translating Social Movements
Friday March 21 – Saturday March 22 2014
The relationship between intellectual discourse and grassroots social movements has long been a contentious and conflictive one, but it is also one that has been shaped by mutual interaction. Just as…[Read more]
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