Groups – Activity – andré carrington

Caroline Edwards deposited Unearthing the ‘gold-bearing rubble’: Ernst Bloch’s Literary Criticism in the group GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years ago

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Ungleichzeitigkeit and global modernisms

Over the last twenty-five years, the modernist canon has been significantly revised as theoretical and empirical interventions have emphasised its transnational and globalised patterns of connection through a range of disciplinary…[Read more]
Caroline Edwards deposited Rethinking the Arcadian Revenge: Metachronous Times in the Fiction of Sam Taylor in the group GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years ago

In lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article: In a recent discussion of modernism, Peter Osborne argues that the terms “modern,” “modernity,” and “modernization” need to be understood through their shared philosophical status as temporal constructions. The emergence of the modern within Western philosophy is predicated on a subjec…[Read more]
Caroline Edwards deposited Microtopias: The Post-apocalyptic Communities of Jim Crace's The Pesthouse in the group GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years ago

In lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article:

After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of communism in the former Soviet bloc, the concept of utopia was blighted with the stigma of Stalinist totalitarianism. Khrushchev’s denunciation of Stalin’s despotism at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party in 195…[Read more]
Leah Milne deposited Choosing Africa: The Importance of Naming in Beloved and The Poisonwood Bible. in the group LLC African American on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago

“Choosing Africa: The Importance of Naming in Beloved and The Poisonwood Bible.” CLA Journal 55.4 (June 2012): 352-369.
Eric Aronoff started the topic Gerry Canavan on NPR's "On Point" discussing science fiction and film in the discussion Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago

The Speculative Fiction Forum’s own Gerry Canavan, Assistant Prof. of 20th and 21st Century Literature at Marquette University, was a guest on the NPR show “On Point” on Friday Dec. 18th to discuss science fiction and film. Check it out:

http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510053/on-point-with-tom-ashbrook
Christopher Looby started the topic 817. Is the Short Story Queer? in the discussion Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago

Abstracts, and the short stories that will be discussed, at Special Session (roundtable) 817, “Is the Short Story Queer,” have been posted to an MLA Commons site:

https://session817.mla.hcommons-staging.org/

Please join us on Sunday, Jan. 10, 1:45-3:00 p.m., in 9B, Austin Convention Center.
Jonathan Senchyne deposited Bottles of ink, and reams of paper: Clotel, Racialization, and the Material Cultue of Print in the group LLC African American on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago

This essay argues that greater attention to the significance of the material culture of print, especially in early African American print culture, shows how technologies of racialization emerge in conjunction with technologies of printed words and images. The stereotype is perhaps the most familiar case. In one sense it offers quick reproduction…[Read more]
Shanté Paradigm Smalls started the topic St. John's University-New York: MLA: English in the discussion Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago

https://apply.interfolio.com/32882

We invite applications for an advanced to senior professor of English with research specialization in any area of writing, rhetoric, or pedagogy studies. Applications with junior academic standing will also be considered. The position combines joining the faculty of our dynamic MA- and PhD- granting graduate…[Read more]
Jorge Calderón started the topic CFP: (Non)Futurité(s) queer(s) in the discussion Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago

(Non)Futurité(s) queer(s)

De la thèse de l’antisocialité aux perspectives utopistes dans la théorie queer

Colloque international

84e Congrès de l’Association francophone pour le savoir

Université du Québec à Montréal

11, 12, 13 mai 2016

En 1988, en pleine crise du sida, Douglas Crimp édite un collectif intitulé AIDS : Cultural Analysis…[Read more]
Albertine Fox deposited 'EXTREME STATES: Remixing Cinema, Visual Art and Music in Godard’s Puissance de la parole’ in Sequence, 3.1 (2015). Online at: http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/sequence3/archive/sequence-3-1/. in the group MS Sound on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago

This article offers an interdisciplinary perspective on Jean-Luc Godard’s video short Puissance de la parole (1988). It engages with key historical figures in film, visual art and music, positioning Godard’s video mashup as a violent intermedial space where past and future meet. Exploring techniques of fragmentation, decontextualization and rec…[Read more]
Shanté Paradigm Smalls started the topic Open Rank English Job at St. John's University in the discussion Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago

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Shanté Paradigm Smalls started the topic Open Rank English Job at St. John's University in the discussion Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months ago

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Ed Finn started the topic Climate Fiction Contest in the discussion Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago

Enter ASU’s Climate Fiction Short Story Contest

First prize: $1,000
Judged by science fiction legend Kim Stanley Robinson
Submit your story!
Climate change is a creeping calamity, ever-present but so gradual and pervasive that it can be tough to grasp. Climate fiction, an emerging subgenre of speculative storytelling, can help us imagine human…[Read more]
Majda R. Atieh deposited The Revelation of the Veiled in Toni Morrison's Paradise: The Whirling Dervishes in the Harem of the Convent in the group LLC African American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago

Muslim women’s perspective on liberatory Islamic orality (or empowerment via the oral traditions within Islam) is vastly accentuated in Fatema Mernissi’s and Leila Ahmed’s examinations of the harem structure. These harem narratives celebrate Sufism, a mystical Islamic theosophy that foregrounds orality and invites a constant search toward divine…[Read more]
Edwin Lambert Hetfield deposited Chapter 16: Witnessing History According to the Refracted Testimony of Gravity's Rainbow and Reading Autobiographical Interests of both Author and Reader in the Context of the Code-Changing Paradigm of Aesthetic Semiosis in the group GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago

A semiotic analysis of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow
Nicole Seymour deposited Alligator Earrings and the Fish Hook in the Face: Tragicomedy, Transcorporeality, and Animal Drag in the group TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago

This article considers the performances of “animal drag” that appear across the affiliated US media projects of Jackass (the television program and film franchise) and Wildboyz (the television program). Drawing on transgender studies scholarship, as well as recent work in affect theory, animal studies, and environmental studies, Nicole Seymour arg…[Read more]
Louise Bethlehem deposited Lauren Beukes’s post-apartheid dystopia: inhabiting Moxyland in the group GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago

This article reads South African science-fiction writer Lauren Beukes’s first novel, Moxyland (2008) set in a futuristic Cape Town, from the perspective of Lindsay Bremner’s notion of “citiness”– or how cities produce the modernity of the subjects who inhabit them. The novel is remarkable for its dependence on the social geography of the South A…[Read more]
Shanté Paradigm Smalls started the topic Call for Nominations: GLQ Caucus Awards in the discussion Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago

The GL/Q Caucus of the MLA invites nominations for each of our three annual awards: the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize, The Crompton Noll Award for Best Essay, The Michael Lynch Service Award, and a NEW award: The Audre Lorde Graduate Student Essay Award. Descriptions and instructions for the prizes are below. All nominations are due November 2,…[Read more]
Giovanna Montenegro started the topic ACLA 2016: DueTomorrow. CFP Literature and Cartography (Americas) in the discussion Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months ago

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ACLA 2016: CFP Hemispheric Approaches to Literature and Cartography in the Americas

Please consider submitting your paper to this seminar proposed for the American Comparative Literature Association Conference from March 17-20, 2016 at Harvard…[Read more]
Tarshia Stanley started the topic Octavia E. Butler: Celebrating Letters, Life, and Legacy – February 26-28, 2016 in the discussion Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months ago

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Octavia E. Butler: Celebrating Letters, Life, and Legacy – February 26-28, 2016 – Spelman College
February 24, 2016 will mark the tenth anniversary of the passing of Octavia E. Butler. To commemorate her contributions to the world of letters, the Octavia E. Butler Society solicits papers for a special conference to be hosted by…[Read more]
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andré carrington

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andré carrington

@amcarrington