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Anna Castillo posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
We are excited to announce the call for Guaranteed Session Proposals for the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American Forum for the 2026 MLA Convention in Toronto. If accepted by our Forum, your panel is guaranteed a place at next year’s convention. We invite proposals that engage with a wide range of topics related to 20th- a…[Read more]
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Anna Castillo posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 1 month agoHello fellow Latin Americanists! I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Wednesday January 15th with your nominations. Thanks!
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election in the forum
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoHello!
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]
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Niamh Thornton deposited María Félix A Mexican Film Star and her Legacy in the group
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 7 months, 1 week agoMaría 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]
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Nathan H. Dize started the topic CPF: Ecologies of Enslavement, Ecologies of Abolition, MLA 2025 in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 11 months, 4 weeks agoHow have enslavement, incarceration, and other colonial confinements shaped more-than-human circum-Caribbean ecologies? How have Black culture-makers confronted these ecologies with abolitionist aesthetics? Send 150-word abstracts to this co-sponsored panel (Caribbean & Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities).Deadline for submissions: Friday,…[Read more]
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Lupe Escobar started the topic CFP: Cold War Afterlives in the discussion
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 12 months agoFrames of war generally magnify precarity, heightening bodily vulnerability, albeit differentially. How do transamerican narrative practices rupture temporal logic to respond to the lasting impact of the Cold War? Send 250-word abstract with C.V.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2024
Guadalupe Escobar, U of Nevada, R…[Read more]
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Maybel Mesa Morales started the topic CFP: Temporalities of the Cuban Revolution in the discussion
LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic on MLA Commons 1 year agoCFP LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic: Temporalities of the Cuban Revolution
Cuba is often treated as before or ahead of its time, and scholars disagree about when the Cuban Revolution started or ended. How does Cuban cultural production engage these competing temporalities? Send 250-word abstracts.Submission Deadline: Friday, 15 March 2024
Contact:…[Read more]
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Maybel Mesa Morales started the topic CFP: Temporalities of the Cuban Revolution in the discussion
LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic on MLA Commons 1 year agoCuba is often treated as before or ahead of its time, and scholars disagree about when the Cuban Revolution started or ended. How does Cuban cultural production engage these competing temporalities? Send 250-word abstracts.Submission Deadline: Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Contact: Maybel Mesa Morales, Ph.D. (mesamorales@lycoming.edu)
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Crystal Anne Chemris deposited Flyer for The Spanish Baroque and latin American Literary Modernity: writing in Constellation in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 1 year agoThis contains a table of contents and description for the book, The Spanish Baroque and Latin American Literary Modernity: Writing in Constellation, as a follow up to my paper for the 2024 MLA. Chapter One formed the basis for “Góngora, Inca Garcilaso, and the Meeting of Humanist and Indigenous Modes of Knowledge.”
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Anne Garland Mahler started the topic Soliciting Nominations for the Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 1 year agoHi everyone,I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Wednesday January 16th with your nominations. Thanks!
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. 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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Raquel Patricia Chiquillo started the topic CFP: for Journal Humanities – on Twenty-First Century Central American Novel in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months agoBuenas tardes, colegas: quisiera invitarlos a subir sus artículos sobre la novela centroamericana del siglo XXI para consideración de ser publicadas en la revista académica “Humanities.” La fecha de entrega es el 31 de marzo pero se puede extender. Me han dicho que el APC no se va a cobrar. Se aceptan manuscritos en español y en inglés. Por favo…[Read more]
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Margaret Frohlich deposited Sexual Diversity in Young Cuban Cinema in the group
LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months agoThis book explores how young Cuban filmmakers have expanded the range of sexual subjectivities on screen. It analyzes cine joven (films made by young directors) from the late 1980s to the early 2020s, film reviews, articles, and materials from the Cinematheque of Cuba’s archive to illustrate the confluence of sexuality, cinema, and discourses of…[Read more]
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Margaret Frohlich deposited Sexual Diversity in Young Cuban Cinema in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months agoThis book explores how young Cuban filmmakers have expanded the range of sexual subjectivities on screen. It analyzes cine joven (films made by young directors) from the late 1980s to the early 2020s, film reviews, articles, and materials from the Cinematheque of Cuba’s archive to illustrate the confluence of sexuality, cinema, and discourses of…[Read more]
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David Tenorio started the topic Forum Sessions Call for papers for MLA 2024 (abstracts due 3/17) in the discussion
LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months agoBlack Aesthetics and Politics: Fugitivity and Postsocialism in Contemporary Cuba
How do Black aesthetics and politics participate in the context of postsocialism? How does Black fugitivity, or resistance to state capture and incorporation, operate in contemporary Cuba?
Cuba Disassembled: Infrastructures, Consumption, and Material Cultures in…
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic “What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy” in the discussion
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months agoAn op-ed article I co-wrote with Latinx Studies colleagues David J. Vázquez and Magdalena L. Barrera was just published in Salon. Check it out!
“What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy: Who gets to wield the power of representation might be important to columnist Pamela Paul, but it’s a…[Read more]
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Anne Garland Mahler started the topic Soliciting Nominations for the Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 2 years agoHi everyone,
I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Wednesday January 25th with your nominations. Thanks!
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Elisa Kriza deposited Helena. La soledad en el laberinto. Epistolario de Helena Laura Paz Garro y Ernst Jünger, por: Elsa Margarita Schwarz Gasque y María del Carmen Vázquez Martínez, ISBN: 9786078706433, Ediciones del Lirio, 2020. in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThis is a book review that evaluates the Spanish-language edition of the letters written by the Mexican poet Helena Paz Garro to the German writer Ernst Jünger, which were originally written in French. The reviewer had access to the original letters in the German Literature Archive in Germany and she compares the original texts with the…[Read more]
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Lupe Escobar started the topic MLA 2023 Call For Papers in the discussion
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoDESCALING CAPTIVITY
Drawing on Mary Pat Brady’s latest conception of “scales of captivity,” we welcome papers that consider children’s human rights in literary and media representations within a hemispheric framework. Send 250-word abstract & bio.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 25 March 2022
Guadalupe Escobar, U of Nevada, Reno (
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