MLA Commons | Lisa Jeanne Fluet | Group Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/ljfluet74/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Lisa Jeanne Fluet is a member. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:59:25 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 2a134d04b52bbae087bb76be6fc88d27 Andrea Zemgulys started the topic Joint Conference in Twentieth Century Lit (FeministinterModernist Space Between) in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/joint-conference-in-twentieth-century-lit-feminist-modernist-and-space-between/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 20:07:30 -0500 FORWARDING ON BEHALF OF OTHERS (see email for contact information!)

A joint conference of the Space Between Society and the Feministinter/Modernist Association (FiMA)
University of North Carolina, GreensboroMay 26 – 29, 2026Proposals Due: January 15, 2026

CFP: SOLIDARITY!
Greensboro, North Carolina, the host city for this year’s joint c…[Read more]

]]> 0 94769bd097a589d0e3a2d734482ab6c6 William J. Spurlin created the doc Call for Papers: African Literature Association 2026 Conference in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1936463/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:27:18 -0500 0 6860801d45c0871e5b6be0bfa544f739 Peter Leman started the topic CFP: World Literature and Disappearance (Special Issue of ARIEL) in the forum TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/postcolonial-studies/forum/topic/cfp-world-literature-and-disappearance-special-issue-of-ariel-3/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:34:57 -0500 Call For Papers: “World Literature and Disappearance” 
Special Issue of <b>ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature</b>

Enforced disappearance is widely recognized as a crime in international law, with legislation that reflects the experiences of Latin America dictatorships and focuses on arbitrary detention and torture or extr…[Read more]

]]> 0 bc5164b16277686d63d3ef2b1d08fefd Peter Leman started the topic CFP: World Literature and Disappearance (Special Issue of ARIEL) in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-world-literature-and-disappearance-special-issue-of-ariel/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:28:27 -0500 Call For Papers: “World Literature and Disappearance” 
Special Issue of ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature

Enforced disappearance is widely recognized as a crime in international law, with legislation that reflects the experiences of Latin America dictatorships and focuses on arbitrary detention and torture or extrajudicial kill…[Read more]

]]> 0 a3166754357999561411cebfb54f2992 Autumn Womack started the topic Seeking Nominations For Prose Fiction Executive Committee in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:47:10 -0400 We’d very much like nominations (self nominations count!) for new committee members for the Prose Fiction Forum.  The term would begin Jan 2026 and run for three years.  Nominees must be MLA members and NOT be on any other MLA committee.   Feel free to email mail me directly with ideas: amwomack@princeton.edu

]]> 0 daa2de088a7ab1be014cd337cae1f691 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-8/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:26:29 -0500 Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing
Editors: P. Muralidhar Sharma & Shashibhusan Nayak

Until recently, Life Writing has emerged as a loose critical label encompassing a variety of genres, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and dairies. The later decades of the 20th century, in particular, have witnessed a surge…[Read more]

]]> 0 db5e1f2431cafc9c6703e9142f0fe46e Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/postcolonial-studies/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-4/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:26:51 -0500 Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing
Editors: P. Muralidhar Sharma & Shashibhusan Nayak

Until recently, Life Writing has emerged as a loose critical label encompassing a variety of genres, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and dairies. The later decades of the 20th century, in particular, have witnessed a surge…[Read more]

]]> 0 97c54fac0c4abafccc8c3666a3db0025 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-anglophone/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-4/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:50:32 -0500 Hello!

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2025, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2025. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one can…[Read more]

]]> 0 f7a21a2ea3119bcee61780937a76a474 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP Deadline Reminder: Novel Languages Conference (SNS 2025) in the forum CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-deadline-reminder-novel-languages-conference-sns-2025-2/ Sun, 10 Nov 2024 21:02:35 -0500 NOVEL LANGUAGES: The Biennial Meeting of the Society for Novel Studies

Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference we…[Read more]

]]> 0 13ba7be5f3cd204b8809c48eb3104b06 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP Deadline Reminder: SNS 2025: Novel Languages in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/cfp-deadline-reminder-sns-2025-novel-languages-2/ Sun, 10 Nov 2024 20:58:34 -0500 NOVEL LANGUAGES: The Biennial Meeting of the Society for Novel Studies

Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference we…[Read more]

]]> 0 c793b5b6e251dee1bff2d9cc68b93048 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP Deadline Reminder: Novel Languages Conference (SNS 2025) in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-deadline-reminder-novel-languages-conference-sns-2025/ Sun, 10 Nov 2024 20:57:02 -0500 NOVEL LANGUAGES: The Biennial Meeting of the Society for Novel Studies

Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference we…[Read more]

]]> 0 c5cc64396d5b9776ae727e5016cb122d Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes journal on "Australia And..." in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-special-topic-in-antipodes-journal-on-australia-and-8/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 01:31:47 -0400 CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature — “Australia And…”

Priority Deadline 1 November 2024

Antipodes invites articles for a special feature section in Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) that considers a literary or cultural work (including fil…[Read more]

]]> 0 ffe44bb1e1225719504ae24b32cf6103 Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes journal on "Australia And..." in the forum CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-special-topic-in-antipodes-journal-on-australia-and-6/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 01:24:10 -0400 CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature — “Australia And…”

Priority Deadline 1 November 2024

Antipodes invites articles for a special feature section in Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) that considers a literary or cultural work (including fil…[Read more]

]]> 0 ff2c9ec8a0cce582a8832730e4ef2292 Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes journal on "Australia And..." in the forum TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/postcolonial-studies/forum/topic/cfp-special-topic-in-antipodes-journal-on-australia-and-4/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 01:09:45 -0400 CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature — “Australia And…”

Priority Deadline 1 November 2024

Antipodes invites articles for a special feature section in Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) that considers a literary or cultural work (including fil…[Read more]

]]> 0 a9c660823fa9d38c62f504520db2f90d Peter Leman started the topic ACLA 2025 Session CFP: "World Literature and Disappearance" in the forum TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/postcolonial-studies/forum/topic/acla-2025-session-cfp-world-literature-and-disappearance-2/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 16:07:20 -0400 Hi All,

I am co-organizing a session with Joseph Wager for the 2025 ACLA. Our topic is “World Literature and Disappearance.” Please consider submitting, and feel free to share with anyone who might be interested. Full CFP below. Thank you!

Best,

Peter Leman

 
World Literature and Disappearance
Enforced disappearance has become a lingua fran…[Read more]

]]> 0 663c563867ffa0eedf8c7aa748df7953 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP: Novel Languages (Society of Novel Studies Biennial Conference) in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-novel-languages-society-of-novel-studies-biennial-conference-2/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:55:38 -0400 Society of Novel Studies 2025: NOVEL LANGUAGES

Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference website: https://sites.duke.edu/sns2025/cfpsubmissions/

The 2…[Read more]

]]> 0 1c7eee83e6c1050917a831971f326076 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP: Novel Languages (Society of Novel Studies Biennial Conference) in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/cfp-novel-languages-society-of-novel-studies-biennial-conference/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:48:12 -0400 SNS 2025: NOVEL LANGUAGES

Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference website: https://sites.duke.edu/sns2025/cfpsubmissions/

The 2025 conference t…[Read more]

]]> 0 35509d6899737496d6df1fffec6cee0d Aarthi Vadde started the topic Society of Novel Studies 2025 CFP: Novel Languages in the forum GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/society-of-novel-studies-2025-cfp-novel-languages/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:44:31 -0400 “NOVEL LANGUAGES” The Biennial Conference of the Society for Novel Studies
Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference website

The 2025 conference theme—…[Read more]

]]> 0 c9ef07ab1371c668a27de173077b30f0 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic Research based news piece on hybridity and Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands in the discussion TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/postcolonial-studies/forum/topic/research-based-news-piece-on-hybridity-and-turkish-immigrants-in-the-netherlands-4/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 07:55:25 -0400 Dear All,

I would like to present our research on hybridity and immigrants in the Netherlands in the form of a news piece below. I will be happy if you could distribute in your networks.

https://x.com/bianet_eng/status/1656667905487151105

Best regards,
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe
İstanbul Aydın University

]]> 0 3d7c6486c99ba64dab093d69d0b2bfb1 Ji Eun Lee deposited Wooshing London: Unsettling Acceleration in H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889186/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:21:53 -0400 This essay reads H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay (1909) in the context of “wooshing” London—I take the word from the story—to see how the unsettling effect of this rapid urban mobility translates into the generic form of the novel. At the turn of the twentieth century, London was wooshing—that is to say, people and things in the city were moving by b…[Read more]

]]> 0 e3cfa136dddbc55ff6bc164146493c0b Ji Eun Lee deposited Prowling in London: Canines in Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889181/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:11:53 -0400 Dracula first appears in front of the British public in England not as a gentleman but in the form of “an immense dog.” This article reads Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) in the context of human-animal encounters happening on the streets of London when the fear of rabid dogs swept the city. Victorian urban projects aimed at building an urban struc…[Read more]

]]> 0 09d5104fcd2af5a28cf3cc904d330a38 Ji Eun Lee deposited Victorian Humanity in Colonial Korea, Where Asians Did Not See Themselves as the Other in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889179/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:07:15 -0400 This article reconsiders the racial hierarchies rendering the nonwhite race as the Other in Anglo-American Victorian studies by examining the case of colonial Korea, where both the colonizer and the colonized were people of color. In colonial Korea, reading Victorian and Edwardian literature enabled Koreans to find an alternative humanity beyond…[Read more]

]]> 0 c66d5f0bbd7bdb647ff290fb6a4bf5af Ji Eun Lee deposited Victorian Humanity in Colonial Korea, Where Asians Did Not See Themselves as the Other in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889176/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:00:35 -0400 This article reconsiders the racial hierarchies rendering the nonwhite race as the Other in Anglo-American Victorian studies by examining the case of colonial Korea, where both the colonizer and the colonized were people of color. In colonial Korea, reading Victorian and Edwardian literature enabled Koreans to find an alternative humanity beyond…[Read more]

]]> 0 4e20c10c6fbbea42ecb647f0cf113986 Regenia Gagnier deposited Language and literature in the information economy: the state of English, English and the state in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887290/ Mon, 27 May 2024 04:00:12 -0400 The impact of colonialism and empire and then of transport, logistics, advertising, media, cinema, radio, tourism, and the internet extended the global reach of English. With 1.13 billion speakers, one in seven in the world now has some English competence. Within this global circulation of English, we have the global teaching of English language…[Read more]

]]> 0 4f5fb33963a08bc3d161109f863f4c91 Louise Bethlehem deposited The Anthropocene and the Environmental Humanities in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887208/ Sun, 26 May 2024 04:13:30 -0400 Interim bibliography on the Anthropocene and the Environmental Humanities generated in conjunction with the Rift Futurism Project supported by a grant from the ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 3011006089), May 2024

]]> 0 fd21853d52d8f378bac5575b37cbe5c3 Louise Bethlehem deposited Speculative Fiction from the Global South--Anthropocene Intersections, Interim Bibliography in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887203/ Sun, 26 May 2024 04:05:19 -0400 Interim bibliography on science fiction and speculative fiction with an emphasis on the global South and on Anthropocene-related perspectives generated in conjunction with the Rift Futurism Project supported by a grant from the ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 3011006089)
Louise Bethlehem, PI, English and Cultural Studies, The Hebrew…[Read more]

]]> 0 121b0b2ee61902971bbcf59ea62c0357 Louise Bethlehem deposited Speculative Fiction from the Global South--Anthropocene Intersections, Interim Bibliography in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887199/ Sun, 26 May 2024 04:00:11 -0400 Interim bibliography on science fiction and speculative fiction with an emphasis on the global South and on Anthropocene-related perspectives generated in conjunction with the Rift Futurism Project supported by a grant from the ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 3011006089)
Louise Bethlehem, PI, English and Cultural Studies, The Hebrew…[Read more]

]]> 0 cf769066663bd61bf9f8d3ea283b1d2e Louise Bethlehem deposited African Futurism Interim Bibliography in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887041/ Fri, 24 May 2024 04:00:13 -0400 A compilation of articles on African Futurism generated in conjunction with the Rift Futurism research project supported by THE ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 3011006089), updated May 2024.

]]> 0 ff084706159c2ecf7f3e8fc3524deb38 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Inhabiting a Comfortable Fiction of the Self: J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1877012/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 04:05:35 -0500 Abstract
In his email conversations with Arabella Kurtz in The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy, J.M. Coetzee entertains the notion of settling on fictions of ourselves, which we are able to inhabit more comfortably than what is perceived as our real life. In addition, he implies that in order to form fictions of…[Read more]

]]> 0 f16633d3d893f4c79bc09d7d40fbf75b Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new feminist short story on sexual harassment at a Turkish university setting in the discussion GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/new-feminist-short-story-on-sexual-harassment-at-a-turkish-university-setting-5/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 12:35:48 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Linnaeus University in Sweden have just published a short story on sexual harassment in a Turkish university context titled as “Professor Mali Romantic-Longhair and the Girl” in the Journal of International Women’s Studies (JIWS.)

We present the link and the info to the short story bel…[Read more]

]]> 0 5fa5c79aae42a8efdfbfabfcd3a9da34 Regenia Gagnier deposited The Geopolitics of Beauty in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870899/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 04:00:14 -0500 Building on eighteenth-century philosophical traditions, Victorian aesthetics were often posed as an antidote to the vicissitudes of the Industrial Revolution and the political and economic demands of the marketplace, and in most cultures undergoing modernization the Beautiful has often functioned in opposition to the forces of power and…[Read more]

]]> 0 b15d1b491bfffa0db9d0c730f714036b Regenia Gagnier deposited The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870888/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 03:02:28 -0500 Will students raised on social media still read English literature?
• What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India,
Australasia, the USA?
• What is the role of English language in relation to other global
and local languages?
• What is the role of decolonising efforts?
• How do our respective state apparatuses affect…[Read more]

]]> 0 22c51628c59efe7b38796c9b00f9d75d Christine Y Lupton started the topic Seeking Nominations for committee members in the discussion GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/prose-fiction/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for-committee-members/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 20:09:16 -0500 We’d very much like nominations for our new committee member.  The term would begin Jan 25 and run for three years.  Nominees must be MLA members and NOT be on any other MLA committee.   Feel free to email mail me directly with ideas (self nomination totally OK!):  c.lupton@warwick.ac.uk. DEADLINE:  Jan 15th 2024.

]]> 0 32acb6cf8c04417de4e5af0e0ae381b3 Ramzi Salti deposited Vivian and Her Son in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870106/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 04:02:09 -0500 This short story, written by Dr. Ramzi Salti, was published as part of his book titled “The Native Informant and Other Stories: Six Tales of Defiance from the Arab World”. It has been turned into a short film titled “The 40th Day’–available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/fspvJSiSQkc. Complete E-Book now available on Google Play and Kindle.

]]> 0 7258b3b17289817e08e63687382ada67 Ramzi Salti deposited Vivian and Her Son in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870104/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 04:00:14 -0500 This short story, written by Dr. Ramzi Salti, was published as part of his book titled “The Native Informant and Other Stories: Six Tales of Defiance from the Arab World”. It has been turned into a short film titled “The 40th Day’–available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/fspvJSiSQkc. Complete E-Book now available on Google Play and Kindle.

]]> 0 105e972786eece810e68369a60ea3910 Preetha Mani deposited The Literary Management of Multilingualism in Postcolonial India in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1869277/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 03:01:42 -0500 This chapter explores a tension in postcolonial Indian literature between the monolingual form of the nation and the multilingual tendencies of the linguistic regions through a comparison between the Sahitya Akademi’s (India’s national academy of letters) activities and Tamil putukkavitai (new poetry) writing. By promoting translation and con…[Read more]

]]> 0 4911f3546614ca570c39409dfe6ac135 Arif Camoglu deposited Provincializing Romanticism: Ottoman Hayaliyyun and Literary Globality in the Nineteenth Century in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1868238/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 04:00:17 -0500 This essay considers the shortfalls of globalizing tendencies in nineteenth-century
literary studies with a focus on the Ottoman Turkish articulation of romanticism, i.e.,
hayaliyyun. Retrieving a historically and geographically hybrid genealogy of romanticism
through the Ottoman Turkish context, my discussion situates romantic imaginary…[Read more]

]]> 0 96907e47313e9933be5dfca8e43910de Arif Camoglu deposited Loving Sovereignty: Political Mysticism, Seyh Galib, and Giorgio Agamben in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866785/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 04:06:32 -0500 Centering on the poetry of Şeyh Galib (1757–1799), this article considers Ottoman imperial sovereignty in tandem with the discourse of mysticism that underpinned it. A key rhetorical device that enables the abstraction of the politics of empire in this discourse is the metaphor of the beloved sovereign. In the mystical writing of Galib, this me…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b928d5db6d0dee9fe35e0497af8ecba Arif Camoglu deposited Loving Sovereignty: Political Mysticism, Seyh Galib, and Giorgio Agamben in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866782/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 04:01:18 -0500 Centering on the poetry of Şeyh Galib (1757–1799), this article considers Ottoman imperial sovereignty in tandem with the discourse of mysticism that underpinned it. A key rhetorical device that enables the abstraction of the politics of empire in this discourse is the metaphor of the beloved sovereign. In the mystical writing of Galib, this me…[Read more]

]]> 0 1f3256199a6daa50337497ec519d5dab Arif Camoglu deposited “Supreme in Ruin”: Empire’s Afterlife in Romantic Encounters with Imperial Ruins in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866469/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 04:07:17 -0500 Registered in Romantic depictions of imperial ruins is the endurance of empire in its immateriality: the imageries of empire’s ruination announce a future where imperial sovereignty maintains its presence spectrally. Using Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology, and recruiting further insight from political theory, this essay argues that emp…[Read more]

]]> 0 a632733c91fb416d272af73ace525ebd Golam Rabbani deposited The Creative Industries in Bangladesh: The Case of Coke Studio Bangla’s “Deora” in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866457/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 03:04:02 -0500 This article analyzes the case of Coke Studio Bangla’s music and performance production titled “Deora.”

]]> 0 bdef2a525311114cac5a46f7c4724ec7 Golam Rabbani deposited In the Light of What We Know: A Novel of Its Time in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866343/ Thu, 30 Nov 2023 03:02:38 -0500 Book review of Zia Haider Rahman’s novel In the Light of What We Know

]]> 0 5cebda65de219170b99812db73a50afc Arif Camoglu deposited Inter-imperial Dimensions of Turkish Literary Modernity in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1865837/ Sat, 25 Nov 2023 04:04:14 -0500 Calling for a historiographical shift in literary criticism, this essay stresses the expansionist vision of the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire, approaches its literature as a corpus of representation for imperial subjectivities, and thereby supplements the critique of the narrative of literary modernity identified with the orientalist E. J. W.…[Read more]

]]> 0 c4ac11e3af08a6a03a3abf2f013d097d Arif Camoglu deposited Inter-imperial Dimensions of Turkish Literary Modernity in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1865834/ Sat, 25 Nov 2023 04:00:13 -0500 Calling for a historiographical shift in literary criticism, this essay stresses the expansionist vision of the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire, approaches its literature as a corpus of representation for imperial subjectivities, and thereby supplements the critique of the narrative of literary modernity identified with the orientalist E. J. W.…[Read more]

]]> 0 7b89a1e64b8e0d438dae42cc1c28894d Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Canines: Unlikely Protagonists in the Novels of Coetzee, Saramago and Shibli in the group GS Prose Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1865790/ Fri, 24 Nov 2023 04:04:02 -0500 Anthropomorphism, which combines two Greek words, anthropos and morphe, meaning “human” and “form’ respectively, is a term that reflects our attribution of human characteristics to non-human animals and objects, bestowing upon them agency (Taylor 2011: 266). In this respect, we elevate the status of the non-human animal, moving it from being a…[Read more]

]]> 0 89ee1a35c498bfd56475f5612183059a Epifanio San Juan deposited INTER-CROSSCULTURAL DIALOGUES AND POSTCOLONIAL INDIGENIZATION IN LATE MODERNITY in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864250/ Sun, 12 Nov 2023 03:05:15 -0500 Survey of the rise of sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino psychology) in the context of decolonization and indigenization movements in the Philippines in the last decades of the 20th century.

]]> 0 9c6d6a525de8cd5c127db89652936dd5 Jamie Callison deposited Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1860581/ Wed, 04 Oct 2023 04:07:28 -0400 ‘Modernism and Religion’ argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth century. The new prominence accorded to immanence and immediacy in religious discourse is carried over into the modernist epiphany. Modernism became mystical. The emergence of Catholic theological modernism, human rights, Christian…[Read more]

]]> 0 169f59cf4f777fc612905e11b4ab1240 Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation - revised in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1859971/ Thu, 28 Sep 2023 03:02:25 -0400 This is a revised 2023 version of a course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018. It addresses feminism, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, and critical race and ethnic studies in conjunction with translation studies.

]]> 0 0c8253391f989a8ef15b612b2fb3beed Golam Rabbani deposited When the Subaltern Screams: Pedophilia and Patriarchy in Humayun Ahmed’s Pleasure Boy Kômola. in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1858686/ Sat, 16 Sep 2023 01:30:05 -0400 This paper aims to analyze the depiction of pedophilia in Humayun Ahmed’s film ‘Pleasure Boy Kômola.’ It concentrates on the social and psychological reasons for this rarely existing sexual practice or perversion and the oppressive consequences it causes on the subalterns in Bangladesh during the colonial period.

]]> 0 bc2c1c394b0a732a846f2edad5df6afc Golam Rabbani deposited Heterogeneity and Baul Spirituality: The Songs of Baul Taskir Ali in Bangladesh in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1858683/ Sat, 16 Sep 2023 01:21:46 -0400 This article briefly explores the contemporary heterogeneous song-texts of Taskir Ali (popularly known as Baul Taskir) from Sunamgonj, in the district of Sylhet, Bangladesh. Bauls are nomadic communities in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India, and they express their profound spiritual philosophy and thoughts through their songs and performance.…[Read more]

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