MLA Commons | LLC Mexican | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mexican/ Activity feed for the group, LLC Mexican. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:37:02 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 a90cece668b78dc5d5b971bf24679c49 Niamh Thornton deposited María Félix A Mexican Film Star and her Legacy in the group LLC Mexican https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890469/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 03:00:20 -0400 María Félix (1914-2002) left her mark on Mexican and European film as well as fashion, art and jewellery design. Cartier created one-of-a-kind pieces; Leonora Carrington and Diego Rivera painted portraits; Carlos Fuentes wrote a play; Agustín Lara, a bestselling song. But she was nobody’s muse.

Did Félix really bring baby crocodiles to the Car…[Read more]

]]> 0 fbdc8484f57579725263f328e9b656c4 Emily Celeste Vázquez Enríquez started the topic Call for nominations for the LLC Mexican Forum Executive Committee in the discussion LLC Mexican https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mexican/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-for-the-llc-mexican-forum-executive-committee-5/ Sat, 21 Jan 2023 04:07:53 -0500 The LLC Mexican Forum of the MLA is seeking nominations and self-nominations from colleagues interested in serving in our forum’s executive committee. Please send your nomination, or nominate a colleague! Send nominations by January 25, 2023 to sergiodm@uchicago.eduMLA forums—formerly divisions and discussion groups—encompass the scholarly and p…[Read more]

]]> 0 aa539994558e2a297abe24311dc9f02f Minni Sawhney deposited Violencia e identidades: Elmer Mendoza y la creación de una saga detectivesca in the group LLC Mexican https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1826718/ Fri, 16 Dec 2022 03:50:40 -0500 The portrayal of narcotrafficking in the novels of Elmer Mendoza.

]]> 0 8e1ca83d8041203f3014e1f9798bba66 Debra Ann Castillo started the topic Invitation to apply, editorship Latin American Literary Review in the discussion LLC Mexican https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mexican/forum/topic/invitation-to-apply-editorship-latin-american-literary-review/ Wed, 06 Jul 2022 18:22:44 -0400 Call for applications to edit the Latin American Literary Review

Applications are invited for the position of editor(s)-in-chief of the Latin American Literary Review (LALR), a well-established literary journal with a fifty-year history of excellence in publishing original scholarship, key translations, and important creative work. LALR publishes…[Read more]

]]> 0 a19bca2663e4a639fbb07ba6a77e2422 Minni Sawhney deposited Surmounting Borders, The Corridos of Jenni Rivera in the group LLC Mexican https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1783822/ Sat, 11 Jun 2022 02:27:04 -0400 Ranchera music on the U.S. Mexican Border

]]> 0 fde0dbdd3c800f3d46138714753a0b5a Laura Torres-Rodríguez started the topic Call for nominations for the LLC Mexican Forum Executive Committee in the discussion LLC Mexican https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mexican/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-for-the-llc-mexican-forum-executive-committee/ Thu, 13 Jan 2022 01:23:06 -0500 The LLC Mexican group calls for nominations (or self-nominations) to its Executive Committee. You may suggest new committee members by writing or typing in the name of an individual to be considered for appointment in the space reserved for that on the ballot of the annual MLA election or at the MLA website or by sending a letter to the MLA…[Read more]

]]> 0 38b4e7c35ba886646eb82e4a9539cee7 Claudio Palomares-Salas deposited The Spatiality of the Hispanic Avant-Garde: Ultraísmo & Estridentismo, 1918-1927 in the group LLC Mexican https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1739364/ Tue, 25 May 2021 03:51:28 -0400 The Spatiality of the Hispanic Avant-Garde: Ultraísmo & Estridentismo, 1918-1927 is a thorough exploration of the meanings and values Hispanic poets and artists assigned to four iconic locations of modernity: the city, the cafés, means of transportation, and the sea, during the first decades of the 20th century. Joining important studies on S…[Read more]

]]> 0 4e1cff30bb8a36d80a2c8d5dd0757d27 Laura Torres-Rodríguez started the topic CFP: Deportation and Affect: Mapping the Hemispheric Americas (MLA 2021) in the discussion LLC Mexican https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mexican/forum/topic/cfp-deportation-and-affect-mapping-the-hemispheric-americas-mla-2021/ Wed, 25 Mar 2020 00:14:18 -0400 This panel explores a variety of methodological and disciplinary approaches to the topic of mass deportations and immigrant justice from the perspective of the humanities. Please submit 300-word abstracts and short presenter’s biographies. Send to Laura J. Torres-Rodríguez ljt233@nyu.edu  Deadline: April 2LCC Mexico and CLCS Hemispheric American

]]> 0 0cc8e8b4178bb2eaef18135fbbaee91b Minni Sawhney deposited Ambivalent Fundamentalists and Reluctant Detectives: Living on the Edge in the Global South in the group LLC Mexican https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1668645/ Sat, 26 Oct 2019 16:33:05 -0400 This article discusses the confluence of the war on drugs and the war on terror with an analysis of the novels of Elmer Mendoza, (Balas de plata, Prueba de ácido, Nombre de perro, Besar al detective) Don Winslow (The Power of the Dog, The Cartel) and Mohsin Hamid (The Reluctant Fundamentalist)

]]> 0 c9bf90078e925e7473d38dcd9a9e714f Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to LLC Mexican https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1663732/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:08:26 -0400 The Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]

]]> 0 49b6510d87f8576f2c1acfd268f5506a Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to LLC Mexican https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1663731/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:08:23 -0400 The Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]

]]> 0 b06c1ecc510590e81e3901b0aba62fe6 Minni Sawhney deposited Excentric Affects in Cristina Rivera Garza's Nadie me verá llorar in the group LLC Mexican https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1642971/ Fri, 21 Jun 2019 16:46:12 -0400 In this article I try to show how the Mexican Revolution was not only national in nature but also helped ordinary individuals break down barriers in their personal lives. The protagonist of Nadie me verá llorar was considered a madwoman in Porfirian society and with the Revolution she comes into her own and finds a space in post revolutionary Mexico D.F.

]]> 0 924bd442cf13e29d58c31397397b8217 Minni Sawhney deposited Stories on the Margins of History : Spanish Immigrants and the Mexican Revolution in the group LLC Mexican https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1642907/ Thu, 20 Jun 2019 16:38:07 -0400 The lives of Spanish immigrants during the Mexican Revolution, their participation therein.

]]> 0 c7380292bf6f98bcc8ca256cf2a52e46 Minni Sawhney deposited Mexican U.S. Border Literature and the Narco Novel in the group LLC Mexican https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1642904/ Thu, 20 Jun 2019 16:26:11 -0400 Analysis of Border literature, Narco novels in the U.S. and Mexico

]]> 0 1384500319bcf4557d175f4cbdc97962 Minni Sawhney deposited La ciudad como protagonista: México D.F. y la literatura mexicana in the group LLC Mexican https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1642873/ Thu, 20 Jun 2019 04:01:15 -0400 El retrato de la Ciudad de México en la literatura.

]]> 0 725a02de58d924727f2a5805d5bc8cb7 Minni Sawhney deposited Un nuevo espacio en la literatura mexicana: La obra fronteriza de luís Humberto Crosthwaite y Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz in the group LLC Mexican https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1642870/ Thu, 20 Jun 2019 03:49:21 -0400 La literatura de la frontera norte

]]> 0 c92f4c87ad6a96d1834b55754eace2dd Minni Sawhney deposited The Unreachable Other: The myth of the mestizo in the novels of Carlos Fuentes in the group LLC Mexican https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1642803/ Wed, 19 Jun 2019 04:13:16 -0400 In this article I investigate the portrayal role of the Aztecs, indigeneous peoples and movements in the writings of Carlos Fuentes.

]]> 0 845e130ec74929d592aa390e76535f95 Minni Sawhney deposited The Unreachable Other: The myth of the mestizo in the novels of Carlos Fuentes in the group LLC Mexican https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1642797/ Wed, 19 Jun 2019 04:01:12 -0400 In this article I investigate the portrayal role of the Aztecs, indigeneous peoples and movements in the writings of Carlos Fuentes.

]]> 0 83a3c26967f1432c2301750ef2adca65 Thomas Robert Ward deposited The Formation of Latin American Nations in the group LLC Mexican https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1635810/ Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:27:34 -0400 This book brings the pre-Columbian and colonial history of Latin America home: rather than starting out in Spain and following Columbus and the conquistadores as they “discover” New World peoples, The Formation of Latin American Nations begins with the Mesoamerican and South American nations as they were before the advent of European col…[Read more]

]]> 0 d5c8c82080ba3b47f309ebf263cd85f0 Thomas Robert Ward deposited Decolonizing Indigeneity: New Approaches to Latin American Literature in the group LLC Mexican https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1631158/ Wed, 06 Feb 2019 03:51:22 -0500 While there are differences between cultures in different places and times, colonial representations of indigenous peoples generally suggest they are not capable of literature nor are they worthy of being represented as nations. Colonial representations of indigenous people continue on into the independence era and can still be detected in our…[Read more]

]]> 0 57cb85fbfc3e934c4f3a0ee20842b135 Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mexican/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2019-forum-delegate-election-31/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:35:54 -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 4af7692c19a6c31f991e5b414b9a1ad9 Zane Koss deposited Coastal Flows: Situating Vancouver Poetry in the Americas in the group LLC Mexican https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1607169/ Thu, 26 Apr 2018 04:26:25 -0400 In a 1972 poem about Vancouver Island, Mexican writer José Emilio Pacheco wonders, “Acaso fue el Aztlán de las mexicas / De allí partieron siete tribus.” Though Pacheco spent several years living in Vancouver during the late 1960s and early 1970s—and was published in a 1971 anthology of poetry “From Canada’s Unofficial Languages”—h…[Read more]

]]> 0 222f7b7ace467c099c69c13c62b9367b Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic Call for Articles. Spectral Mexico in the discussion Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mexican/forum/topic/call-for-articles-spectral-mexico-4/ Thu, 16 Nov 2017 00:18:23 -0500 Spectral Mexico. Ghosts and the Talking Dead in Contemporary Mexican Culture

The persistence of death and its figurative representations is a recognizable commonplace in the visual and narrative discourses of Mexican culture. Underworlds like Mictlan and Xibalba, the Catrina skull, the Santa Muerte, ghosts, dancing skeletons, post-mortem…[Read more]

]]> 0 821ce5dd2458e21bc5432e6011212c81 Vicente Gomis-Izquierdo started the topic Special Call for Papers "Rebeldes Históricos en el imaginario mexicano" in the discussion Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mexican/forum/topic/special-call-for-papers-rebeldes-historicos-en-el-imaginario-mexicano/ Tue, 27 Sep 2016 15:59:49 -0400 SPECIAL CALL FOR PAPERS

“Rebeldes históricos en el imaginario mexicano”

Este número especial de Hispanic Journal se propone estudiar la figura del/la rebelde en el imaginario mexicano, un personaje histórico-cultural que ha existido desde tiempos pre-colombinos hasta la actualidad. Una de las premisas fundamentales de los ensayos selecc…[Read more]

]]> 0 30e04d09f7ff8d1b3e0d92f53d5acda7 Vicente Gomis-Izquierdo posted an update in the group LLC Mexican: The editors of Hispanic Journal invite submissions of […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/550623/ Tue, 06 Sep 2016 16:17:52 -0400 The editors of Hispanic Journal invite submissions of unpublished studies all year around. Hispanic Journal is published twice annually by the Department of Foreign Languages and the Graduate School of Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Its purpose is to publish research and criticism of the highest quality in the areas of Spanish, Spanish…[Read more]

]]> 0 65c999a6558139339faa4e72242e1b0e Angel M. Diaz Miranda replied to the topic CFP MLA 2017 Unbounded: David Huerta's Incurable at 30 in the discussion Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mexican/forum/topic/cfp-unbounded-david-huertas-incurable-at-30/#post-10869 Tue, 15 Mar 2016 00:40:53 -0400 Extended until March 20th, 2016

]]> 0 2afa828a4c55607c44543f599d655a32 Angel M. Diaz Miranda started the topic CFP MLA 2017 Unbounded: David Huerta's Incurable at 30 in the discussion Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mexican/forum/topic/cfp-unbounded-david-huertas-incurable-at-30/ Wed, 24 Feb 2016 04:20:12 -0500 Unbounded: David Huerta’s Incurable at 30

Special Session

Incurable (1987) shatters the boundaries of form. Papers on readership, intertextuality, illness, poetic connections, and fragmentation are especially welcomed. 200-word abstract and very short bio. by 10 March 2016; Angel M. Diaz Miranda (diazam@hollins.edu).

]]> 0 ef3ad58ff4b6d85c731c225bb708dc4e Jaime Brenes Reyes deposited Art, Literature and Revolution in Latin America: Telling the Story in the group Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/134849/ Wed, 20 May 2015 20:54:15 -0400 Course Description: As German intellectual Walter Benjamin writes in his essay “The Storyteller”, “Experience which is passed on from mouth to mouth is the source from which all storytellers have drawn.” In the process of sharing experiences, more stories are born with authorship that are common while at the same time recognizing the individ…[Read more]

]]> 0 6c260e2b2ac512a8a47c9e1e861b2d6f Beth Ellen Jörgensen started the topic CFP, MLA2016 Panel on Mexican Authors 1968 to 80's in the discussion Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mexican-cultural-and-literary-studies/forum/topic/cfp-mla2016-panel-on-mexican-authors-1968-to-80s/ Fri, 20 Feb 2015 20:43:51 -0500 Solitary Mexicans: Gaps in Contemporary Literary Historiography

Traditionally, the canon of Mexican literature has been studied by grouping authors into movements, generations, ideological “isms,” or schools. This is a common critical and historiographic procedure that always leaves some authors as not fitting neatly in some of the standard org…[Read more]

]]> 0 105f24eaadc8ac62a9cd25a0e1409ad8 Beth Ellen Jörgensen started the topic CFP MLA 2016, Mexican Forum Panel in the discussion Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mexican-cultural-and-literary-studies/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2016-mexican-forum-panel/ Tue, 27 Jan 2015 21:35:56 -0500 Materiality and Mexican Culture

Material culture—the production, possession, display, gifting and consumption of material goods and the built environment—plays an active role in the construction and reception of socially determined meanings. We measure core cultural values such as authenticity, tradition and progress in part through our rel…[Read more]

]]> 0 dbcce811b5d85749283e82c8ce4748ad Gerardo Pignatiello started the topic CFP Dossier "Crime/Detective Fiction in Latin America and the Caribbean" in the forum Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mexican-cultural-and-literary-studies/forum/topic/cfp-dossier-crimedetective-fiction-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/ Fri, 03 Oct 2014 04:27:56 -0400 CFP Revista Badebec, University of Rosario, Argentina. Dossier “Crime/Detective Fiction in Latin America and the Caribbean (1980-2014)” (literature, film, and TV). First deadline: November 30th, 2014. Contact: badebec@gmail.com 

BADEBEC INVITA A PARTICIPAR DE SU PRÓXIMO DOSSIER

“Ficciones policiales en Latinoamérica y el Caribe”

Para el númer…[Read more]

]]> 0 d9d641d8bdbb4471bc4eda12cc2b63e4 Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta started the topic MLA 2015.NAFTA, Neoliberalism, and 21st-Century Mexican Narratives. A Roundtable in the forum Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mexican-cultural-and-literary-studies/forum/topic/nafta-neoliberalism-and-21st-century-mexican-narratives-a-roundtable/ Sat, 08 Mar 2014 21:34:52 -0500  

MLA 2015

NAFTA, Neoliberalism, and 21st-Century Mexican Narratives. A Roundtable

Position papers on how Mexico is imagined and narrated after two decades of NAFTA’s implementation. Send abstract and bio by 15 March 2014; Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta (jcramire@rohan.sdsu.edu).

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