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Francophone Media(na)tions Thursday, 7 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 401, JW Marriott Program arranged by the forum LLC Francophone Presiding: Miléna Santoro, George Washington Univ. “Crossing Trenches in Le cœur des batailles by Jean-David Morvan and Igor Kordey: Textual Analysis of ‘La Marne’ (2007) and ‘Verdun’ (2008),” Anne Cirella-Urrutia, Huston-Tillotson Univ. “Frontiers, Conquests, and the (Re)Birth of the Nation: The Rise of the Comics Western in France at the End of Empire,” Eliza Bourque Dandridge, Duke Univ. ” Fast-Forward Massilia: From Claude McKay to Moussu T (e lei Jovents),” Danielle Marx-Scouras, Ohio State Univ., Columbus   Graphic Interventions: Visual Cultures of the Arab World Thursday, 7Read More →

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Friday, 8 January Satire and the Editorial Cartoon 5:15–6:30 p.m. Program arranged by the Forum GS Comics and Graphic Narratives Presiding: Nhora Lucia Serrano, Harvard Univ. “The Radical Genealogy of the Editorial Cartoon,” Frank A. Palmeri, Univ. of Miami “Between Words and Pictures: Telling the Graphic Story of United States Slavery in Abolitionist Satirical Cartoons,” Martha J. Cutter, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs “Punch, Counterpunch: Mimicry, Parody, and Critique in the Colonial Public Sphere,” Tanya Agathocleous, Hunter Coll., City Univ. of New York “Pulling John Chinaman’s Queue to Get Him in Line: Domesticating Gestures in Nineteenth-Century PunchCartoons,” Joe Sample, Univ. of Houston, Downtown Saturday, 9 January Latina/o ComicsRead More →

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Ever since the days of William Hogarth and his brand of pictorial satire, expressing an opinion on the politics of the day in print demanded a combination of humor, hyperbole, and caricature in its illustration. By the 19th century, the periodical Punch appropriated the term ‘cartoon’—a finished preliminary sketch on a large piece of cardboard—to refer to its political, pictorial editorials. At the height of the turn of the century, the editorial cartoon was deeply imbedded in commenting on art, politics, and immigration in order to draw attention to corruption and other social ills. The Discussion Group on Comics and Graphic Narratives seeks papers thatRead More →

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The 2014 edited collection Contemporary Latina-o Media included no essays on comics. This is not, perhaps, surprising; at present, comics remain marginalized in ways that keep the medium from being as central to cultural and political exchange as print literature, film, television and radio are. However, this very condition makes comics, as a field perpetually “coming of age” yet forever on the margins, productive for thinking about the contemporary disposition of Latina/o culture and politics. The Discussion Group on Comics and Graphic Narratives and the Division on Comparative Studies in Twentieth Century Literature therefore invite papers that explore connections between the medium of comics andRead More →

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Charlie-Hebdo and its Publics Ever since the tragic murders of staff members of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, there have been heated discussions in the public sphere regarding free speech, religious expression, and the power of satire. Reactions have differed dramatically among national and social groups, East and West. These varied discourses are amplified by the globalization and the internet, and raise questions about how images can or cannot circulate within specific national or religious contexts. For the 2016 MLA theme “Literature and its Publics,” this panel seeks contributions that examine the Charlie Hebdo in the context of different traditions of editorial cartooning, and fromRead More →

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Besides the three events—the “Immigration and Comics” panel, the “Comics Theory Roundtable” and the cash bar—sponsored or co-sponsored by our Discussion Group, MLA 2015 in Vancouver will host other sessions devoted to comics or graphic narratives, as well as a number of individual papers that, as far as we are able to tell from the program, connect to the comics studies field. Please find these sessions listed below.   Enjoy! The Graphic South (session 35) Thursday, 8 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 114, VCC West  Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Southern Literature Presiding: Katherine Renee Henninger, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge   “The Contested Topography of the ReconstructedRead More →

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 Come one, Come all! Our Official Saturday night social event for the MLA 2015 Convention in Vancouver will be held Saturday, 10 January, 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm, in 122 VCC West. We look forward to seeing many of you there. Please join us!    Read More →

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This is the second of our three official events at the next MLA convention, to be held in Vancouver, Thursday through Sunday, 8-11 January 2015:   720. Comics Theory Roundtable __________________________________________________________________________________________ Sunday, 11 January 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., West 214, VCC West Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Comics and Graphic Narratives Presiding: Martha B. Kuhlman, Bryant Univ. Speakers: Michael A. Chaney, Dartmouth Coll.; Hugo Frey, Univ. of Chichester; Jared Gardner, Ohio State Univ., Columbus; Fabrice Leroy, Univ. of Louisiana, Lafayette; Barbara Postema, Ryerson Polytechnic Univ. This roundtable analyzes interdisciplinary approaches to studying comics. Comics theory includes semiotics, film theory, linguistics, visual studies, and narrativeRead More →