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Stefania Licata started the topic Session Proposal:Production and circulation of Afro-Hispanophone/ Lusophone arts in the discussion
LLC Luso-Brazilian on MLA Commons 9 months, 1 week agoDear colleagues,
Please consider submitting an abstract to the following session for the 2019 ALA (African Literature Association) Conference, which will take place at Renaissance Columbus Downtown Hotel, from May 15 to May 18, 2019.
Session Title: Production and circulation of Afro-Hispanophone/ Lusophone performing and vis…[Read more]
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Giovanna Gobbi Alves Araujo started the topic CFP: OPINIÃES N. 14 – Dossiê "A tragédia e o trágico na literatura brasileira" in the discussion
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature on MLA Commons 12 months agoCall For Papers / Chamada de trabalhos — Opiniães nº 14
Dossiê: A tragédia e o trágico na literatura brasileira
A Revista Opiniães (Qualis B5) tratará do tema da tragédia e do trágico na literatura
brasileira em seu dossiê temático para a edição de número 14, a ser publicada no
primeiro semestre de 2019.A Opiniães – Revista dos alunos de lite…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature on MLA Commons 1 year 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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Eliseo Jacob started the topic CFP: V SIMPÓSIO INTERNACIONAL DE LITERATURA NEGRA IBERO-AMERICANA in the discussion
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months agohttps://simposioliteraturanegraiberoamericana.wordpress.com/
COORDENADOR: PROF. DR. RODRIGO VASCONCELOS MACHADO/UFPR,
EMENTA DO EVENTO: Este simpósio tem como objetivo pensar a problemática da mestiçagem desde a ótica Negra, Indígena, Branca e Mestiça, bem como refletir sobre as causas da sua presença em quase todos os âmbitos da cultura e da su…[Read more]
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Giovanna Gobbi Alves Araujo started the topic CFP: OPINIÃES Nº 13 – Dossiê: Circulação da Literatura Brasileira no Exterior in the discussion
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months agoCHAMADA DE TRABALHOS EM ABERTO — OPINIÃES Nº 13
Dossiê: Circulação da Literatura Brasileira no ExteriorA Revista Opiniães (Qualis B5) tratará da circulação da literatura brasileira no exterior em seu dossiê temático para a edição de número 13, a ser publicada no fim do segundo semestre de 2018.
O aumento de pesquisas, eventos, concess…[Read more]
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Giovanna Gobbi Alves Araujo started the topic CFP: OPINIÃES Nº 13 – Dossiê: Circulação da Literatura Brasileira no Exterior in the discussion
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months agoCHAMADA DE TRABALHOS EM ABERTO — OPINIÃES Nº 13
Dossiê: Circulação da Literatura Brasileira no ExteriorA Revista Opiniães (Qualis B5) tratará da circulação da literatura brasileira no exterior em seu dossiê temático para a edição de número 13, a ser publicada no fim do segundo semestre de 2018.
O aumento de pesquisas, eventos, concess…[Read more]
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Giovanna Gobbi Alves Araujo started the topic CFP: OPINIÃES Nº 13 – Dossiê: Circulação da Literatura Brasileira no Exterior in the discussion
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months agoCHAMADA DE TRABALHOS EM ABERTO — OPINIÃES Nº 13
Dossiê: Circulação da Literatura Brasileira no ExteriorA Revista Opiniães (Qualis B5) tratará da circulação da literatura brasileira no exterior em seu dossiê temático para a edição de número 13, a ser publicada no fim do segundo semestre de 2018.
O aumento de pesquisas, eventos, concess…[Read more]
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Giovanna Gobbi Alves Araujo started the topic CFP: in the discussion
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months agoCHAMADA DE TRABALHOS EM ABERTO — OPINIÃES Nº 13
Dossiê: Circulação da Literatura Brasileira no ExteriorA Revista Opiniães (Qualis B5) tratará da circulação da literatura brasileira no exterior em seu dossiê temático para a edição de número 13, a ser publicada no fim do segundo semestre de 2018.
O aumento de pesquisas, eventos, concess…[Read more]
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Gabriel Rei-Doval started the topic CFP: Can Language Shift be Reversed? Insights from and for Galician in the discussion
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months agoCall For Papers
Can Language Shift be Reversed? Insights from and for Galician
(Guaranteed Session, MLA Convention, Chicago, 3-6 January, 2019)On the 35th Anniversary of the Galician Language Bill Lei de normalización lingüística (1983), it is time for Galician and international scholars to re-assess the process of language plannin…[Read more]
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Victoria Saramago posted an update in the group
LLC Luso-Brazilian on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months agoDear all,
As a candidate for the Forum Executive Committee election that goes until December 10, I am writing to quickly introduce myself. I am an assistant professor of Brazilian literature at the University of Chicago working on 20th- and 21st-century Latin American literature with a focus on Brazil. I’ve been writing about Ecocriticism, f…[Read more] -
Amanda M. Smith started the topic December 1 Deadline approaching for Chiricú Journal in the discussion
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months agoReminder that the deadline for submissions to the Latinx literature edition of Chiricú Journal is a little over two weeks away. Please submit your critical articles, artwork, photography, creative writing, and interviews to chiricu.indiana.edu by December 1. If interested in reviewing a book, contact chiricu@indiana.edu. More information at our w…[Read more]
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Mariela Mendez de Coudriet started the topic CFP SPECIAL DOSSIER ON CLARICE LISPECTOR in the discussion
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago<h2>CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Edited Volume of Critical Essays on Clarice Lispector</h2>
<h2>Mariela Méndez (University of Richmond) and Anna Katsnelson (Medgar Evers College, the City University of New York) invite proposals for a volume of critical essays on Clarice Lispector’s contributions to the Brazilian press.</h2>
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Ideal Cities-Marred Individuals: J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus and José Saramago’s A Caverna in the group
LLC Luso-Brazilian on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoIn the final pages of J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus and José Saramago’s A Caverna, the main protagonists flee to an unknown destination from their respective “utopias.” Both allegorical novels expose the ills of two guarded and structured communities. A Caverna, a parable of Plato’s cave, depicts the story of the lives of 64-year-old…[Read more]
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA 2018, CFP: “Language Change: Global (Im-)gration and Linguistic Insecurity” in the discussion
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoDear colleagues,
The Executive Committee of the Forum on Language Change is seeking proposals for the session “Language Change: Global (Im-)migration and Linguistic Insecurity”. See short and long CFP below.
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Papers exploring how global and local migrations affect language practices and patterns (e.g. linguistic in…[Read more]
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Marcos Wasem deposited Barroso y sublime. Poética para Perlongher in the group
LLC Luso-Brazilian on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoLa reflexión crítica que opera en torno al concepto de neobarroco recupera la categoría estética de lo sublime, expropiándola de los márgenes que ha ocupado en el pensamiento estético-filosófico de Occidente. Si bien se ha escrito bastante sobre la relación entre el barroco del siglo XVII y el neobarroco hispaoamericano, son pocos, sin embargo,…[Read more]
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Cesar Braga-Pinto started the topic CFP: Graphic Narratives (MLA 2017) in the discussion
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoTitle of session: Graphic Narratives
Deadline for submissions: 14 March 2016
Description: This panel explores different forms of graphic narrative from the Luso-Brazilian world, including, but not limited to political cartoons, graphic novels, comic strips and graffiti.
Submission requirements:
250 word abstractsContact person information
Cesar…[Read more] -
Ewa Lukaszyk deposited Nós, Portugal, o poder ser. Um universalismo virtual como resultado dum processo de auto-mitificação da cultura in the group
LLC Luso-Brazilian on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoWe, Portugal, the possibility of being. Virtual universalism as the result of the process of cultural self- mythification.
The article is divided in four parts. The first one contains the working hypothesis, associating Mensagem by Fernando Pessoa, the culminating formulation of the Portuguese self-mythification, with the trauma of Atlantic…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Becomings in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians and José Saramago’s Blindness in the group
LLC Luso-Brazilian on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago“Becoming-animal” is a term used by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in their work, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia which at times can designate a movement towards denigration. With a “becoming,” a threshold is, invariably, crossed and the boundaries that have existed between the animal and the human become blurred. Moreover…[Read more]
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Gabriel Rei-Doval started the topic CFP: 2nd North American Symposium of Galician Studies in the discussion
Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years ago2nd North American Symposium of Galician Studies: Academic Renewal, Artistic Communication and Social Innovation
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
April 20-23, 2016
As a continuation of the first conference organized by the Galician Studies Research Group at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in May, 2014, this second meeting at the U…[Read more]
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