MLA Commons | LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literatures-of-the-united-states-in-languages-other-than-english/ Activity feed for the group, LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:37:02 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 a2b0c0a98c0535ac9abba410d4d9c9e0 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literatures-of-the-united-states-in-languages-other-than-english/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-16/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:17:59 -0500 Hello!

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2025, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2025. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one can…[Read more]

]]> 0 179be6d902e9678f3f2f132d363978f3 Juliane Braun deposited Modes of Recovery, Performative Commons, and Identity Formation in Early American Theater in the group LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902705/ Sat, 26 Oct 2024 03:05:21 -0400 Review of

Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles: Stage Roles of Anglo-American Girls in the Nineteenth Century. By Marlis Schweitzer.
University of Iowa Press, 2020. 276 pp.

The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater: Revolutionary Dramatists and Theatrical Practices. Edited by Leopold Lippert and Ralph J. Poole. Transcript, 2021. 214…[Read more]

]]> 0 0add755f9debd192575f52217de3baf5 Juliane Braun deposited Recovering Virginie Gireaudeau: Race, Language, and Representation on the American Stage in the group LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902286/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:06:21 -0400 This article recovers the life and career of Virginie Gireaudeau, one of the first African American actresses to appear in a major North American theater. Performing in New Orleans in 1826, she played the female lead in two tragedies, supported by a group of white professional actors and actresses from France. But despite Gireaudeau’s obvious s…[Read more]

]]> 0 794e7a3f882d7a6326474963c072431a Preetha Mani deposited The Literary Management of Multilingualism in Postcolonial India in the group LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1869275/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 03:00:03 -0500 This chapter explores a tension in postcolonial Indian literature between the monolingual form of the nation and the multilingual tendencies of the linguistic regions through a comparison between the Sahitya Akademi’s (India’s national academy of letters) activities and Tamil putukkavitai (new poetry) writing. By promoting translation and con…[Read more]

]]> 0 7a524b8b3a23ba89d6f9713cf495019b 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1817823/ Mon, 17 Oct 2022 02:29:26 -0400 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]

]]> 0 b22591fb3a5af97558763f145e711630 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1766341/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 04:06:08 -0500 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]

]]> 0 fe3e7405d35ee0791d145c3d14df6bb7 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1753047/ Tue, 28 Sep 2021 02:24:56 -0400 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]

]]> 0 fd729bbb91d20a4e3355da6e9d8077ab 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1746406/ Tue, 20 Jul 2021 04:04:50 -0400 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]

]]> 0 c962073124ea98941c5832fb623b7f3e 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1746401/ Tue, 20 Jul 2021 03:55:58 -0400 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]

]]> 0 f510f4e9f02d6df16b2639ef3ce81171 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1680331/ Mon, 09 Mar 2020 03:52:27 -0400 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]

]]> 0 5bd0868f4ae78b80199c5d41b15fe93e 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literatures-of-the-united-states-in-languages-other-than-english/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2019-forum-delegate-election-28/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:35:07 -0400 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]

]]> 0 76e87041afe2014708d3551664ea721e 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1588765/ Thu, 16 Nov 2017 05:47:27 -0500 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]

]]> 0 1e4176ce518ae7f32c91f66e2ea0cd2e 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literatures-of-the-united-states-in-languages-other-than-english/forum/topic/chiricu-journal-cfs-latinx-literature-politics-deadline-december-1-14/ Fri, 29 Sep 2017 02:49:50 -0400 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]

]]> 0 7658e8fadfabb22e6b1b9ba49d67ee51 Kanika Batra deposited "Our Own Gayful Rest": A Postcolonial Archive in the group LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1571543/ Thu, 25 May 2017 01:10:20 -0400 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.

]]> 0 02b7c5fe71b3778137d4cd5323f591ea 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1565281/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 20:32:31 -0400 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]

]]> 0 6931e6b7aa72e48e4e83b86313303ca0 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1565275/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 20:13:44 -0400 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]

]]> 0 3311bc6536ca749c01011b3ca825d5b5 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1564624/ Wed, 15 Mar 2017 20:31:40 -0400 City Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke

]]> 0 3c3cef0c6f3129a172a4d94fe281259f 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1555285/ Sat, 10 Dec 2016 20:20:19 -0500 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]

]]> 0 a29795cf50dbb0075978dcba67055ebd 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literatures-of-the-united-states-in-languages-other-than-english/forum/topic/new-rust-belt-literature-group-at-the-commmons/#post-11814 Fri, 09 Sep 2016 19:58:48 -0400 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.

 

]]> 0 7217f64ea3b150c7db7c35f259753083 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literatures-of-the-united-states-in-languages-other-than-english/forum/topic/new-rust-belt-literature-group-at-the-commmons/ Thu, 01 Sep 2016 23:16:46 -0400 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]

]]> 0 698dc530f5f0f123fe6bafd0d7b56ad6 Raúl Coronado started the topic Latina/o studies CFP's in the discussion Literature of the United States in Languages Other Than English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literatures-of-the-united-states-in-languages-other-than-english/forum/topic/latinao-studies-cfps/ Wed, 24 Feb 2016 02:50:08 -0500 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]

]]> 0 302fa78021f43cdb022c39e793883b7e 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literature-of-the-united-states-in-languages-other-than-english/forum/topic/cfp-textos-hibridos-revista-de-estudios-sobre-la-cronica-latinoamericana/#post-7325 Thu, 26 Mar 2015 15:45:00 -0400 Excellent– I posted your announcement in our Commons, the Graduate Center at CUNY.

Mariana

]]> 0 419c3ca2acd67958483c95f2ed1a0e58 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/89208/ Fri, 16 Jan 2015 15:46:16 -0500 CFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life
Deadline extension: January 31st

]]> 0 ac995574cecf62fafa96602bee5a90d0 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 http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literature-of-the-united-states-in-languages-other-than-english/forum/topic/cfp-textos-hibridos-revista-de-estudios-sobre-la-cronica-latinoamericana/ Thu, 02 Oct 2014 02:08:40 -0400 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]

]]> 0 7ea20c42f074631d388fedc201fa4b23 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 http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literature-of-the-united-states-in-languages-other-than-english/forum/topic/cfp-modernist-studies-association-nov-6-9-pittsburgh-pa-3/ Fri, 24 Jan 2014 15:03:20 -0500 The 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]

]]> 0 ab3c154779157c64dcbbd36b5ef1c0b4 María Gil Poisa started the topic Call for Papers: Social Movements in the forum Literature of the United States in Languages Other Than English http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literature-of-the-united-states-in-languages-other-than-english/forum/topic/call-for-papers-social-movements-4/ Thu, 26 Dec 2013 13:17:17 -0500 TEXAS 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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