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Jesse A. Goldberg deposited Slavery’s Ghosts and the Haunted Housing Crisis: On Narrative Economy and Circum-Atlantic Memory in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years agoIn light of (re)new(ed) interest in focusing interdisciplinary scholarly attention on the history of capitalism – a focus captured in Edward Baptist’s recent book, The Half has Never Been Told – this essay reads Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy as a key text for considering the history of capitalism as central to conceptions of circum-…[Read more]
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Jesse A. Goldberg deposited Theorizing and Resisting the Violence of Stop-and-Frisk-style Profiling on Humanities Commons 7 years ago
This article analyzes Stop-and-Frisk policing within the long history of lynching through the analytical framework of performance studies. Contemporary audio recordings of stop-and-frisk procedures are thought in relation to the historical examples of the Zoot Suit Riots and late 19th-century and early 20th-century lynchings of African Americans.
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Jesse A. Goldberg deposited Slavery’s Ghosts and the Haunted Housing Crisis: On Narrative Economy and Circum-Atlantic Memory in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy on Humanities Commons 7 years ago
In light of (re)new(ed) interest in focusing interdisciplinary scholarly attention on the history of capitalism – a focus captured in Edward Baptist’s recent book, The Half has Never Been Told – this essay reads Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy as a key text for considering the history of capitalism as central to conceptions of circum-…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch started the topic Reminder: CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 30th Annual Conference in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoMedical Humanism / American Literature
CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 30th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2019, Boston, MA
Given the ongoing healthcare crisis in America—soaring costs, physician shortages, and lack of insurance coverage—and the rising interest in the field of health humanities, I seek projects that illuminate Ame…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch replied to the topic CFP: Medical Humanism / American Literature in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoCorrection: Submit 250- to 500-word abstracts and a CV, by January 5, 2019, to Tana Jean Welch, Florida State University College of Medicine, at tana.welch@med.fsu.edu
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Tana Jean Welch replied to the topic CFP: Medical Humanism / American Literature in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoCorrection: Submit 250- to 500-word abstracts and a CV, by January 5, 2019, to Tana Jean Welch, Florida State University College of Medicine, at tana.welch@med.fsu.edu
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Jessica Thelen's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months ago
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Tana Jean Welch started the topic CFP: Medical Humanism / American Literature in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoMedical Humanism / American Literature
CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 30th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2019, Boston, MA
Given the ongoing healthcare crisis in America—soaring costs, physician shortages, and lack of insurance coverage—and the rising interest in the field of health humanities, I seek projects that illuminate Ame…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui replied to the topic Southeast Asia related papers in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoHello! So my earlier post below contained a lot of formatting tags/HTML data, and MLA Commons does not allow users to edit or delete their error-filled posts in the spirit of preserving a transparent record of all conversations. So I’m posting the info from my previous post here.
THURSDAY, 3 JANUARY
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Southeast Asia-related sessions & talks @ MLA 2019 in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months ago<p class=”western”><span style=”font-size: medium;”>Hello! Our Southeast Asia & Southeast Asia Diasporic forum in the Modern Language Association will have 3 sessions at the January 2019 Chicago MLA conference. I’m also giving a 2nd talk on Singaporean comics artist Sonny Liew’s earlier work in a special session on postcolonial graphic nar…[Read more]
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Jessica Thelen's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months ago
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Weihsin Gui's profile was updated on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months ago
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Jessica Thelen's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months ago
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Jessica Thelen's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months ago
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Jesse A. Goldberg's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months ago
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Jessica Thelen's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months ago
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Jessica Thelen's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months ago
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Jessica Thelen posted an update on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months ago
Pleased to be featured as a guest author on Pedagogy and American Literary Studies (PALS). Check out my post on “Teaching Japanese Internment Using Julie Otsuka’s When The Emperor Was Divine.”
Teaching Japanese Internment Using Julie Otsuka’s <em>When The Emperor Was Divine</em>
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Jessica Thelen's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months ago
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