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Sana Asif deposited Tangible Heritage and Intangible Memory: (Coping) Precarity in the Select Partition Writings by Muslim Women in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 3 weeks, 6 days ago
The partition of British India into two sovereign independent nations of India and Pakistan in 1947 was one of the most defining moments of the socio-political course of the sub-continent. The fight for independence from colonial rule and the rise of nationalism rooted in the religious discourse of two prominent religious communities- Hindus and…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited Damage or Pleasure? Teaching Shakespeare as a British Indian in the US in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Text of a talk delivered remotely to Seshadripuram Evening Degree College to commemorate their Golden Jubilee in July 2022. Not peer-reviewed. Discusses, in memoiristic fashion, Tripthi Pillai’s coinage “Shakespeare Damage” — the initial encounter of many minoritized or colonized subjects (including LGBTQ+ persons) with Shakespeare– and…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited Afghanistan’s “Bacha Posh”: Gender-Crossing in Nadia Hashimi’s The Pearl That Broke Its Shell in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 months, 4 weeks ago
This article explores the tradition of Bacha Posh in Afghan culture as depicted in Afghan-American Nadia Hashimiʼs debut novel The Pearl that Broke its Shell (2014). In this novel, Hashimi shows how Afghan girls are obliged to cross-dress and live dual lives as boys for several years to lay claim for their rights to education and freedom of…[Read more]
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Esha Sil started the topic CFP: The Routledge Handbook to Global Literature and Culture in the Romantic Era in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 10 months, 1 week ago
Call for Papers: The Routledge Handbook to Global Literature and Culture in the Romantic Era
Edited by Arif Camoglu, Bakary Diaby, Omar F. Miranda, Gaura Narayan, and Kate Singer
How might we re-envision and extend the “Romantic period” through an archive of texts and forms of expression from multiple communities across the planet during…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic ACLA 2022 Seminar CFP: Intermediality & the Transboundary in S & SE Asia in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months ago
Intermediality and the Transboundary in South and Southeast Asia
A Seminar Proposal for the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
Annual Conference, National Taiwan University, Taipei, June 15-18, 2022
Deadline for Submission: October 31, 2021 at 11:59 p.m. PST
To submit an abstract for this seminar, please visit:…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic CFP: Inter-Asia Intermediality: A Two-Part International Workshop in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months ago
Inter-Asia Intermediality: A Two-Part International Workshop
Conveners: Brian Bernards (USC) and Elmo Gonzaga (CUHK)
Part 1: University of Southern California (Los Angeles), May 20-21, 2022
Part 2: Chinese University of Hong Kong, June 10-11, 2022Over the past two decades, intermediality and inter-Asia (much like interdisciplinarity) have…[Read more]
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Umar Anjum replied to the topic CFP for MLA 2022 panel that could include South Asian Languages taught in the US in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 2 years ago
Hi,
No worries.
Have a nice week ahead
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Umar Anjum replied to the topic CFP for MLA 2022 panel that could include South Asian Languages taught in the US in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 2 years ago
Thank you, this looks great. I am interested. Can you please share details? Thanks
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for MLA 2022 panel that could include South Asian Languages taught in the US in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 2 years ago
World Languages, World Literature, Comparative Literature
Description: Comparative and World Literature programs depend on world language education pipeliines — and vice versa. This panel explores articulations, pipeline building, language-planning advocacy, including dialogue with high school language and literature teachers and…[Read more]
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Esha Sil uploaded the file: Call for Papers: SPEAKING AS THE 'OTHER': CALLIOPE International Conference, University of Helsinki: 10-12 May 2021 to
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
Call for Papers: SPEAKING AS THE ‘OTHER’: CALLIOPE International Conference, University of Helsinki: 10-12 May 2021
SPEAKING AS THE ‘OTHER’: Coloniality, Subalternity, and Embodied Political Articulations
(late 18th – early 20th centuries)
10-12 May 2021
Live in Helsinki and online
This multidisciplinary conference seeks to examine perfo…[Read more] -
Preetha Mani deposited An Aesthetics of Isolation: How Pudumaippittan Gave Pre-Eminence to the Tamil Short Story in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 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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Kerry Manzo started the topic CFP MLA 2021 Trans Persistence in South Asia and Beyond in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 3 years ago
Literary and cultural engagements with trans* bodies, politics, and assembly in literature of South Asia, its Diaspora, comparative, or transnational framework. 250 word abstract to Kerry.manzo@purchase.edu by March 20.
Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 20 March 2020 Kerry Manzo, Purchase C, SU of New York (kerry.manzo@purchase.edu )
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months ago
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]
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Preetha Mani deposited What Was So New about the New Story? Modernist Realism in the Hindi Nayī Kahānī in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months ago
This essay examines the Hindi Nayī Kahānī, or New Story, Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, which was influential for the short stories, criticism, and literary history that its writers produced. Incorporating a view toward the larger “metaliterary” corpus in relation to which properly “literary” nayī kahānī texts were written, the essay shows h…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty deposited Narendra Modi’s victory speech delivers visions of a Hindu nationalist ascetic in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months ago
India’s re-elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a victory speech that presented himself as a selfless and humble Hindu ascetic. This vision goes far to promote a Hindu nationalist ‘new India.’
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Preetha Mani deposited Literary and Popular Fiction in Late Colonial Tamil Nadu in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months ago
This essay explores an unprecedented distinction between literary and popular writing that emerged in debates in Maṇikkoṭi and Āṉanta Vikaṭaṉ, two well-known Tamil magazines that were launched in the 1930s. Through short stories and critical essays, the writers who contributed to these magazines attempted to create new lenses through which to v…[Read more]
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Neelofer Qadir deposited Migritude’s Decolonial Lessons in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months ago
In this essay, I trace the deep time of the Indian Ocean through and against which Shailja Patel fabulates the notion of migritude and, in particular, what its valences are for solidarities between black and brown Kenyans and other south-south relationships. Attentive to the multiple voices she invites into the text and the material objects that…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited Feminine Desire Is Human Desire in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months ago
This article compares the 1950s and 1960s short story writing of two influential yet underexamined women writers, Mannu Bhandari (1931–) and R. Chudamani (1931–2010), who are considered key representatives of the Hindi and Tamil literary canons, respectively. Mani demonstrates that from within their specific geographic and historical contexts, Bha…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month ago
CFP for the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum’s first guaranteed session for MLA 2019:
Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia
What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? Comparative and multimedia approaches welcomed. 300 word abstracts and bios by 15 March 2018;…[Read more]
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Madhumita Lahiri deposited An Idiom for India: Hindustani and the Limits of the Language Concept in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months ago
This essay explores the cultural legacy of Hindustani, which names the intimate overlap between two South Asian languages, Hindi and Urdu. Hindi and Urdu have distinct religious identities, national associations and scripts, yet they are nearly identical in syntax, diverging to some extent in their vocabulary. Hindi and Urdu speakers,…[Read more]
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