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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoI am late for technical problems in this website.
An Eye for an Eye is a historical interpretation of 9/11 that challenges mainstream media representation of the same and October is a deep meditation on the attempt to counter and assimilate traumatic experience. So I highly recommend these two works for our ongoing discussion.
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Ivonne Garcia started the topic Announcement: Hawthorne Society — "Hawthorne and Things" MLA 2018 abstracts in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoNathaniel Hawthorne Society – “Hawthorne and Things” MLA 2018 panel description and abstracts
Things abound in Hawthorne. We hope this panel can provoke a lively discussion of what happens to our understanding of them when we move beyond conventional interpretations of symbolic meaning to focus instead on things themselves as potential makers of…[Read more]
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Ivonne Garcia started the topic Poe/Hawthorne Joint International Conference – Kyoto, Japan June 21-24, 2018 in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoDear colleagues,
The Poe Studies Association and the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society will host a joint international conference with the Japanese Poe Society and the Japanese Hawthorne Society in Kyoto, Japan from <span data-term=”goog_239816782″>June 21-24, 2018</span>. Our plenary speaker will be Takayuki Tatsumi and our keynote speaker will be…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoPlease, wait. I will reply very soon
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Marlene Manoff deposited Archival Silence in the Age of Trump in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThe Trump presidency has fueled growing apprehension about a media landscape rife with lies, bogus news, and conspiracy theories. These concerns can be situated within a discourse of archival silence which questions the ways in which knowledge may be concealed, misappropriated and exploited in the service of governments, corporations and…[Read more]
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Alexa Joubin deposited “Shakespeare on Film in Asia.” Chapter 12 of The Shakespearean World, ed. Jill L. Levenson and Robert Ormsby (London: Routledge, 2017), pp. 225-240 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoShakespearean tragedies and comedies have been adapted to the silver screen in India, Malaysia, Tibet, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, and Japan. How do Shakespeare and modern directors talk to each other across cultural and historical divides? Why are particular strategies used or themes emphasized? How are pre-linguistic structures of spectacle and…[Read more]
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John Edward Streamas replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoSorry I’m so late to reply. I am unfamiliar with the first item above, and am surprising myself not to be familiar with the Gluck book, since I keep up with most of her work. I very much like the rest of the list. At risk of getting slightly off-topic, would you agree that fiction writers have written about 9/11 and its aftermaths more and…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoSir,
Thank you a lot for your interest in post 9/11 poetry, especially in Claudia Rankine. The primary literature I have chosen for our discussion is as follows,
1. An Eye For an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind by Allen Cohen and Clive Matson.
2. Poetry After 9/11; An Anthology of New York Poets by Denis Loy Johnson and Valerie…[Read more] -
John Edward Streamas replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoI’m very interested, especially as US poetry in the second half of the past century seemed concerned with the private and now, with the provocations of 9/11 and Claudia Rankine, poets are being urged to become more public.
John Streamas
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Joydeep Chakraborty started the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoI would to start a discussion on post 9/11 American poetry. Interested members are reauested to communicate with me as soon as possible.
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited How to Make Love to a Negro: But What if I get Tired? Transculturation and its (Partial) Negation In and Through Translation in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoDany Laferrière’s first novel, Comment faire l’amour avec un Nègre was a literary sensation when it was first released in Quebec in the mid-80s. The author/narrator plays with reader’s expectations, presenting both a stereotypical image of the black man (sex-obsessed, white-hating) and one that contradicts and upsets their expectations. Influen…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoI would like to start a discussion on post 9/11 american poetry which is an important part of 21st century american poetry. Interested members are requested to communicate with me as soon as possible.
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Dany Laferrière, Japanses Writer? Borderless Texts, Borderless Trauma in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoAuthor Dany Laferrière, after a seven year hiatus from writing, produced the book Je suis un écrivain japonais (2008) [I am a Japanese Writer]. The title recalls statements he has frequently made in interviews about how much he hates being pigeon-holed by national or racial labels. The book itself is an examination of what (or who) defines s…[Read more]
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Yolanda Padilla deposited Felix beyond the Closet: Sexuality, Masculinity, and Relations of Power in Arturo Islas’s The Rain God in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThis essay examines the uneasy relationship that Arturo Islas’s The Rain God has had with narratives of identity, focusing on how the representation of Felix’s sexuality makes him a problematic figure for certain strains of Chicana/o and queer studies. In other writings, Islas criticizes Quinto Sol, the chief publishing house of Chicano literature…[Read more]
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James E. Dobson started the topic ANNC: 2017 Futures of American Studies Institute (Jun 19-25) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThe 2017 Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth College
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~futures
http://www.facebook.com/futures.of.american.studiesMONDAY JUNE 19, 2017 – SUNDAY JUNE 25, 2017.
DIRECTOR: Donald E. Pease (Dartmouth College)
CO-DIRECTORS: Colleen Boggs (Dartmouth College), Soyica Diggs Colbert
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Yolanda Padilla deposited “Chicana/o Narratives: Then and Now” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoIntroduction to the edited volume Bridges, Borders, and Breaks: History, Narrative, and Nation in Twenty-First-Century Chicana/o Literary Criticism.
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Annette Kolodny deposited Schooling the Nation’s Newspaper of Record: The New York Times and Indian Genocide in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoIn late 1991, an editor at the Sunday New York Times Book Review asked me to write a feature article about that uniquely American genre, the Indian captivity narrative. When the editor called, I was dean of the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona. I accepted the Times assignment in hopes that writing this article might prove a…[Read more]
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Kanika Batra deposited City Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCity Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke
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John Charles Hawley uploaded the file: CFP: Queer Theory in African Film and Fiction to
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHow are African literatures and cultures mediating globalizing frameworks for gender and sexuality and shifting understandings of “queer”? From Woubi Cheri and Dakan, to Stories of Our Lives, African film has begun this conversation. From K. Sello Duiker, to Chinelo Okparanta and Diriye Osman, new voices have invited national debates on these top…[Read more]
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Lauren Coats started the topic GS Travel Writing: CFP MLA 2018, "Papers, Please" in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the Travel Writing forum’s guaranteed session at MLA 2018. Details below.
<h1>“Papers, please”: Travel Documents and Travel Writing</h1>
<div> Forum: GS Travel Writing</div>
Critical approaches to how travel documents (of lack of) shape travel writing and mobility in a globalized world. 250 word abstr…[Read more] - Load More
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