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GS Travel Writing

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    Jessica Howell started the topic Inviting nominations for the Executive Committee in the discussion Group logo of GS Travel WritingGS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 3 weeks, 5 days ago

    Hello,

    The Executive Committee of the Travel Writing Forum invites suggestions for new members of the Executive Committee. Feel free to message one of us directly, or to post a reply here.

    All best,

    Jessica Howell, Bernadette Andrea, Patricia Akhimie, Natalya Din Kariuki and Churnjeet Mahn

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    Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Group logo of GS Travel WritingGS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago

    The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

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    Minni Sawhney deposited La figura del renegado en el teatro de Cervantes in the group Group logo of GS Travel WritingGS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 8 months ago

    On the renegades in Cervantes’s Captivity plays

  • Profile picture of Noemi Martin Santo

    Noemi Martin Santo deposited La curiositas asiática en Conquista de las Islas Malucas de Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola in the group Group logo of GS Travel WritingGS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months ago

    Este ensayo propone una lectura de Conquista de las islas Malucas (1609) del poeta, historiador y eclesiástico Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola (1562-1631) como un gabinete de curiosidades textual lleno de narraciones y objetos maravillosos. El autor emplea sus propias ideas sobre la escritura de la historia para crear una crónica de conquista co…[Read more]

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    Lila Marz Harper deposited “Swimming among the Jellyfish”: travel guides, Elizabeth von Arnim, and Rügen in the group Group logo of GS Travel WritingGS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago

    In the opening of Elizabeth von Arnim’s The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen (1904), the protagonist, Elizabeth, comes across Marianne North’s autobiography, Recollections of a Happy Life (1894) and her description of the bathing near Putbus, “a sandy cove where the water was always calm, and of how you floated about on its crystal surface, and be…[Read more]

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    Ahmed Idrissi Alami deposited CFPs: MLA 2021, CLCS Global Arab and Arab American in the group Group logo of GS Travel WritingGS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago

    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]

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    Noemi Martin Santo deposited Conflictos de autoridad narrativa en la _Relación del reyno del Nippon_ de Bernardino de Ávila in the group Group logo of GS Travel WritingGS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago

    Please refer to the article. The abstract is misplaced.

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    Minni Sawhney deposited Latin American Travelers in Modern India in the group Group logo of GS Travel WritingGS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months ago

    The travels and writings of Octavio Paz and Severo Sarduy in India.

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    Minni Sawhney deposited Religion and Colonialism: Jesuits at Akbar’s Mughal Court in the group Group logo of GS Travel WritingGS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months ago

    The reception of Jesuit priests at the the court of Akbar the Mughal emperor of India

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    Edwige Tamalet Talbayev deposited CFP: Re-membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean International Conference (Toulouse, March 26-27, 2020) in the group Group logo of GS Travel WritingGS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months ago

    We are inviting proposals for the forthcoming “Re-membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean” International Conference that will be held on March 26-27, 2020 in Toulouse, France (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès).
    Abstracts (300 words) are due by September 15, 2019 to yasser elhariry (yasser.elhariry@dartmouth.edu), Isabelle Keller-Privat (isa.…[Read more]

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    Jessica Howell started the topic Jessica Howell, GS Travel Writing Forum Executive Committee Candidate in the discussion Group logo of GS Travel WritingGS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months ago

    Hello, I’m pleased to have been nominated as a candidate for the GS Travel Writing Forum Executive Committee election. Candidates have been invited to introduce themselves on the Commons during elections. I am an Associate Professor of English and Associate Director of the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University. My work…[Read more]

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    George Prokhorov deposited Narrating and mapping Russia: From Terra Incognita to a charted space on the road to Cathay in the group Group logo of GS Travel WritingGS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months ago

    In the 16th century most of Russia is still a terra incognita with a highly dubious and mostly mythologized geography, anthropology, and sociology. In this article we look at some texts of the Early Modern period – Sir Thomas Smithes Voiage and Entertainment in Rushia (1605), Peter Mundy’s Travel Writings of 1640–1641, and The Voiages and Trave…[Read more]

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    yasser elhariry deposited CFP // Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean: Essays in Anglophone Literature, Arts, and Culture in the group Group logo of GS Travel WritingGS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months ago

    Call for Papers for Peer-Reviewed Edited Volume

    Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean:
    Essays in Anglophone Literature, Arts, and Culture

    Co-edited by yasser elhariry, Isabelle Keller-Privat & Edwige Tamalet Talbayev

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    James Gifford deposited Mary Stewart’s Greek Novels: Hellenism, Orientalism and the Cultural Politics of Pulp Presentation in the group Group logo of GS Travel WritingGS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months ago

    This chapter makes two critical interventions: one to redirect attention to women’s writing on Greece from a century that was dominated by either a masculine homosocial modernity or Byron’s long shadow in David Roessel’s sense (2002); and two, revising the critical scotoma that surrounds Hellenism as a process of power and style of thought in th…[Read more]

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    Lauren Coats started the topic GS Travel Writing: CFP MLA 2019: Commemorating Travel in the discussion Group logo of GS Travel WritingTravel Literature on MLA Commons 5 years ago

    The CFP for this forum’s 2019 MLA panel is out. Please consider submitting:

    *Commemorating Travel*
    The circulations, aesthetics, politics of material artefacts of travel and travel writing throughout history: books and blogs, photos and Facebook, Tshirts and mementos. 250-word abstracts, cv by 12 March 2018; Lauren Coats (lac@lsu.edu).

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    George Prokhorov deposited A MIXTURE OF PERFORMANCE AND NARRATIVITY, OR TRAVELOGUE AS A GENRE in the group Group logo of GS Travel WritingGS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months ago

    In the article, we trace some aspects of development of eventivity and narrativity in Medieval and early Modern Era travel literature. Dissecting episodes of Sir Thomas Smithes Voiage and Entertainment in Rushia (1605), A Travel of Anonimous Citizen of Suzdal to The Council of Florence (15th century), Russian Primary Chronicle (12th century), and…[Read more]

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    Lauren Coats started the topic GS Travel Writing: CFP MLA 2018, "Papers, Please" in the discussion Group logo of GS Travel WritingTravel Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months ago

    Please consider submitting a proposal for the Travel Writing forum’s guaranteed session at MLA 2018.  Details below.
    <h1>“Papers, please”: Travel Documents and Travel Writing</h1>
    <div> Forum: GS Travel Writing</div>
    Critical approaches to how travel documents (of lack of) shape travel writing and mobility in a globalized world. 250 word abstr…[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 Group logo of GS Travel WritingTravel Literature on MLA Commons 6 years ago

    Dear 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.

    ____________________

    Papers exploring how global and local migrations affect language practices and patterns (e.g. linguistic in…[Read more]

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    Carol Zuses started the topic Suggestions Needed for 2017 Delegate Election in the discussion Group logo of GS Travel WritingTravel Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

    Call for Suggestions

    This forum will need to hold an election for a Delegate Assembly representative in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. The executive committee is responsible for making nominations, b…[Read more]

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    Lila Marz Harper deposited Self-Censorship in Mary Kingsley’s Travels in West Africa in the group Group logo of GS Travel WritingGS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

    This article discusses changes that Mary Kingsley made to her 1897 Travels in West Africa when she abridged the text for a general audience.

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