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TC Postcolonial Studies

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  • Profile picture of Shakil Rabbi

    Shakil Rabbi deposited The global translinguistics of Bengali Muslims in the group Group logo of TC Postcolonial StudiesTC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 1 week, 6 days ago

    This chapter presents a discussion of a literary genre called puthis, a premodern tradition of religious stories and plays in what is now Bangladesh, as an example of vernacular cosmopolitanism in an Asian context. The language of this genre, called Dubasha, is a “mixed language mode” (Seely 2008) characterized by the replacement of Sanskrit voc…[Read more]

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    Anna Ziajka Stanton started the topic Seeking Nominees for Executive Committee + Delegate Assembly Rep (CLCS GAAM) in the discussion Group logo of TC Postcolonial StudiesTC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 3 weeks, 3 days ago

    We are seeking nominations for the Executive Committee of the CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Forum at the MLA. We are also seeking nominations for a representative to the MLA Delegate Assembly on behalf of the CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Forum. Both appointments would begin after the MLA Convention in 2024. Please email all nominations…[Read more]

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    John Gruesser deposited Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line PowerPoint in the group Group logo of TC Postcolonial StudiesTC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago

    Based in the South throughout his career, the Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs wrote nearly fifty books and pamphlets, including five novels, nearly all of which he issued through his own publishing companies. Griggs was a founder of American Baptist Theological Seminary, which several Civil Rights Movement leaders attended in the 1950s.…[Read more]

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    John Gruesser deposited Poe’s Last Jest: The Magazine Prison-House, Colonial Exploitation, and Revenge in “Hop-Frog” in the group Group logo of TC Postcolonial StudiesTC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 1 month, 3 weeks ago

    As I have done in connection with another tale about vengeance Edgar Allan Poe published two and a half years earlier, “The Cask of Amontillado,” in what follows I offer a generalized biographical interpretation of the 1849 story “Hop-Frog,” linking it to Poe’s February 1845 essay “Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House” and his September 184…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Asha Nadkarni

    Asha Nadkarni started the topic CFP: MELUS 2023 in the discussion Group logo of TC Postcolonial StudiesTC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 3 months ago

    Dear colleagues and friends,
    On behalf of Butler University, which is sponsoring the MELUS 2023 conference in Indianapolis, April 20-23, 2023, we’d like to reach out and invite you to send a proposal for the upcoming conference and announce our extended deadline of November 30th. We encourage individual, panel, and/or roundtable proposals. Please…[Read more]

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    Amel Abbady deposited The Intersections of Masculinity and Disability in Khaled Hosseini᾿s A Thousand Splendid Suns and Leila Aboulela᾿s Lyrics Alley in the group Group logo of TC Postcolonial StudiesTC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 months, 1 week ago

    Abstract of my full article published on disability and masculinity in the Global South.

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    Esha Sil started the topic ‘Creole Indias, Creolising Pondicherry’: New Article in the discussion Group logo of TC Postcolonial StudiesTC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 months, 3 weeks ago

    Dear all

    It gives me great pleasure to announce the publication of the article, ‘Creole Indias, Creolising Pondicherry’, authored by Professor Ananya Jahanara Kabir (Department of English, King’s College, London). The essay develops her theory of littoral enclaves, archipelagic theory, and creolisation in India, via Pondicherry, and has a…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Louise Bethlehem

    Louise Bethlehem deposited Hydrocolonial Johannesburg in the group Group logo of TC Postcolonial StudiesTC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 months ago

    Johannesburg is a landlocked city, famously the largest human concentration in the southern hemisphere not located on a river. What opportunities does it afford for hydrocolonial analysis, given Isabel Hofmeyr’s anchoring of that term in oceanic studies? How might a hydrocolonial orientation defamiliarize the relations between surface and depths…[Read more]

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    Esha Sil started the topic Lorna Sage Memorial Lecture 2022: Paul Gilroy in the discussion Group logo of TC Postcolonial StudiesTC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 months, 3 weeks ago

    The School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia (UEA) is delighted to announce that this year’s Annual Lorna Sage Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Paul Gilroy.

    Date: Thursday 9th June 2022Time: 17:30-19:00, followed by a drinks reception

    Location: Lecture Theatre 1

    Paul was the recipient of the 2019 H…[Read more]

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    Daniel Williams deposited Transatlantic Climate and Gulf Stream Aesthetics in the group Group logo of TC Postcolonial StudiesTC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 12 months ago

    The Gulf Stream gained scientific prominence in the nineteenth century as a test case for theories about the dynamics of ocean currents and the equilibrium of transatlantic climate. Discourse about the current supplied descriptions, analogies, and myths that persist into the present. Triangulating oceanic, ecological, and transatlantic approaches…[Read more]

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    Arif Camoglu deposited Postkolonyal Teori ve Osmanlı Türk Emperyalizmini Beraber Düsünmek in the group Group logo of TC Postcolonial StudiesTC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months ago

    Osmanlı emperyalizminden ve kolonyalizminden bahsedebilmek için postkolonyal teorinin analitik ufkunu ve kelime dağarcığını esnetmek ve belki de yeniden gözden geçirmek gereklidir. Bu yazının akademik ve politik meramı işte budur Daha açık bir deyişle, Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan örneğiyle önümüzde beliren Osmanlı hayal(et)ini postkolonyal teoriyle k…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of James Mulholland

    James Mulholland deposited Translocal Anglo-India and the Multilingual Reading Public in the group Group logo of TC Postcolonial StudiesTC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago

    This article proposes a new literary history of British Asia that examines its earliest communities and cultural institutions in translocal and regional registers. Combining translocalism and regionalism redefines Anglo‐Indian writing as constituted by multisited forces, only one of which is the reciprocal exchange between Britain and its c…[Read more]

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    Thomas Robert Ward deposited Coloniality and the Rise of Liberation Thinking during the Sixteenth Century in the group Group logo of TC Postcolonial StudiesTC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    This book delves into the inadequately explored, liberative side of Humanism during the late Renaissance. While some long-sixteenth-century thinking anticipates twentieth-century Liberation Theology, a broader description is simply “liberation thinking,” which embraces its diverse, timeless, and sometimes nontheological aspects.

    Two moments fra…[Read more]

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    Jason Frydman deposited Peter Abrahams of South Africa: Learning to Read (in) the Global 1930s in the group Group logo of TC Postcolonial StudiesTC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    Born poor, the material and ideological networks that propelled Peter Abrahams to literacy in 1930s South Africa lay bare how white liberalism, Pan-Africanism, and Marxism all overlapped as well as contradicted one another in the global 1930s. The confluences and contradictions of these currents of thought, artistic production, and political…[Read more]

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    Jason Frydman deposited Death in the Arena: A Brief History of Dancehall, Time, and the Cold War in the group Group logo of TC Postcolonial StudiesTC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    This essay decodes how Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings uses the history of Jamaican music, culminating in the conflict between roots reggae and dancehall, to chart the Cold War’s conflicts over time, temporality, and futurity. A Brief History of Seven Killings points readers to a jaded, subaltern temporality encoded in a dan…[Read more]

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    yasser elhariry started the topic The Black Mediterranean / CFP / MLA 2022 Guaranteed Session in the discussion Group logo of TC Postcolonial StudiesTC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years ago

     

    Call for Papers

     

    MLA Annual Convention

    6–9 January 2022

    Washington DC

     

    Guaranteed Forum Session

    Sponsored by CLCS Mediterranean

     

    The Black Mediterranean

     

    Michelle Murray (Vanderbilt University), presiding

     

    The subordinations of racial disparity, conflict, and death are persistent traits of the Mediterranean and its d…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Esha Sil

    Esha Sil edited the doc Call for Papers: SPEAKING AS THE ‘OTHER’: CALLIOPE International Conference, University of Helsinki: 10-12 May 2021 in the group Group logo of TC Postcolonial StudiesTC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago

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    Preetha Mani deposited An Aesthetics of Isolation: How Pudumaippittan Gave Pre-Eminence to the Tamil Short Story in the group Group logo of TC Postcolonial StudiesTC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months ago

    The influential Tamil writer Pudumaippittan turned to the short story to theorize the relationship between literature and society in the late-colonial era. He used the genre’s brevity to compress his portrayals of well-known female types—such as widows, prostitutes, and goodwives—into singular emotional events. This enabled Pudumaippittan to evoke…[Read more]

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    Rahul K Gairola deposited Lightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today in the group Group logo of TC Postcolonial StudiesTC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months ago

    Lightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today

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    Anita Harris Satkunananthan deposited Monsters at the End of Time: Alternate Hierarchies and Ecological Disasters in Alaya Dawn Johnson’s Spirit Binders Novels in the group Group logo of TC Postcolonial StudiesTC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 12 months ago

    This paper interrogates the connection between entities that hover in the liminal state between life and death (such as vampires and spirits) and the manner in which these entities relate to Alaya Dawn Johnson’s conjurings of alternate political structures and hierarchies in her Spirit Binders series. Johnson’s alternate hierarchies are com…[Read more]

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