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Candace Barrington deposited Medievalism and Gwendolyn Brooks' The Anniad in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn this brief paper, I first introduce Gwendolyn Brook’s “The Anniad,” a 43-stanza ballad at the center of her 1949 Pulitzer-prize winning collection, Annie Allen. Next, I make a case that “The Anniad” is informed by a medievalism combining Brooks’ girlhood reading and the physical environment of Bronzeville, her Chicago neighborhood. Finally, I…[Read more]
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Candace Barrington deposited Medievalism and Gwendolyn Brooks' The Anniad in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn this brief paper, I first introduce Gwendolyn Brook’s “The Anniad,” a 43-stanza ballad at the center of her 1949 Pulitzer-prize winning collection, Annie Allen. Next, I make a case that “The Anniad” is informed by a medievalism combining Brooks’ girlhood reading and the physical environment of Bronzeville, her Chicago neighborhood. Finally, I…[Read more]
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Myrto Drizou started the topic CFP- Volume on Edith Wharton (Critical Insights-Salem Press) in the discussion
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for Papers
Critical Insights
Edith Wharton
Please see below the call for essays for a forthcoming volume on Edith Wharton. The volume is part of the series Critical Insights (Salem Press) and will appear in fall 2017. More information can be found here:http://www.salempress.com/critical_insights.html
Following the guidelines for the…[Read more]
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Ruby Tapia posted an update in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago2017 MLA Panels Sponsored by the Forum on Race and Ethnicity Studies
Session 28. 05-JAN-17. Writing (against) the Prison, 12:00 noon – 1:15 p.m. Franklin 13, Philadelphia Marriott.
Presiding: Ruby Tapia, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1. “The Life of Paper: Imprisoned,” Sharon Luk, Univ. of Oregon
2. “You (Shall) Have the Body: Ghostly…[Read more]
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LaRose T. Parris started the topic CFP: 2017 NeMLA Convention in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago“Philosophical Ruptures: The Counterhegemonic Mission of Africana Literature”
The literary productions of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African diasporic thinkers are widely acknowledged as the discursive corrective to African enslavement and colonization under Western hegemonic domination. Olaudah Equiano’s, David Walke…[Read more]
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Nancy Caronia started the topic NeMLA Panel seeking abstracts, deadline 9/30 in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoNeMLA Panel: The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed
The goal of “The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed” panel is to explore the Rocky franchise’s place in illuminating Italian Americans’ anxiety about whiteness in a post-Civil Rights era and black millennials’ continual struggle for autonomy in the post-9/11 twenty-…[Read more]
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Darwin Tsen started the topic CFP Postsocialist Literature and Culture Under Comparative Lenses in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoProposed Seminar for the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative
Literature Association (ACLA) in Utrecht, The Netherlands (July 6-9, 2017)Organizer:
Darwin H. Tsen, The Pennsylvania State University
A few nations still claim the socialist mantle today, but their practices paint a different picture. How do we, then, in an age where…[Read more]
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Adam Toth started the topic CFP Race Theory and Literature in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoProposed Seminar for the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative
Literature Association (ACLA) in Utrecht, The Netherlands (July 6-9, 2017)Organizers:
Pauline Moret-Jankus, Friedrich-Schiller Universitaet, Jena
Adam J. Toth, The Pennsylvania State UniversityRace Theory and Literature Emerging out of the practices of…[Read more]
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Martin Paul Eve deposited “A Shorthand of Stars”: From John to Thomas Pynchon in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe June 1888 issue of the Phonographic World magazine presented John Pynchon, an ancestor of Thomas, as “The First American Shorthand Reporter”. While most biographical criticism to date of Thomas Pynchon has focused on the cameo appearance of a thinly veiled William Pynchon in Gravity’s Rainbow, we here set out further historical infor…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at the Commons in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
Rust Belt Literature
Public Group active 5 hours, 52 minutes ago
<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group. NOTE: we have a call out for hosts for a panel on Rust belt Literature at the next national MLA convention.
This group will host discussions of all types of lite…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic How create sub-group "Rust Belt Literature?" in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoI welcome your interest, Janet!
We are adding borderlands to Rust Belt Literature including bordering Windsor, Canada, and bordering Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico. Our Welcome has been revised to reflect this after someone at a different group pointed out the omission. So we go a bit beyond the Midwest, Janet. we already have interest from Pe…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller replied to the topic How create sub-group "Rust Belt Literature?" in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoDear Friends,
I’m also interested in this group. However, I would like to give the group a more positive or neutral name than “Rust Belt.”
We may also want to connect with the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, which has annual conferences in June in East Lansing at Michigan State University. These conferences include films, c…[Read more]
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Sandra Katherine Sprows replied to the topic How create sub-group "Rust Belt Literature?" in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoI am interested in being a part of the discussion group on “Rust Belt Literature.”
Thank you for starting this discussion.
Sandra
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic How create sub-group "Rust Belt Literature?" in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoNicky Agate told me how to create the group “Rust Belt Literature” so it is now an independent discussion group–I think. I tried to make it as open as possible, since it may be a low traffic group.
Our first offering is my story Whiting Rich and Strange to be found in the CORE file deposit area (on your toolbar–keyword CORE.)
Please send me…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic How create sub-group "Rust Belt Literature?" in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoHello, 20th-21st C. Am. Lit. Admins,
I spoke to Nicki Agate, one of the admins of the MLA Commons, about a category for “Rust Belt Literature.” There hasn’t been much space for those of us who grew up in steel mill and other industrial communities to discuss our attempts at transforming our life experiences into literature.
MLA CORE DEPOSIT N…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic File deposit: Whiting Rich and Strange in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoI am notifying the Race and Ethnicity group that I have deposited a short story titled Whiting Rich and Strange. I have written six stories so far set in the Rust belt, a site of post-colonial activity. In my hometown of East Chicago. one census recorded 82 nationalities. Our part of Indiana is not known to the rest of the US, except as high cr…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Whiting Rich and Strange in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoTitle of short story: WHITING RICH AND STRANGE
A story of ethnic people in an oil refinery town in NW Indiana.
Comments are most welcome. This is part of a series of stories based in the industrial part of Chicago’s Indiana suburbs.I am also placing the story in the Shakespeare group because–after all–it is a Romeo and Juliet story.…[Read more]
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Doug Steward deposited Data on Humanities Doctorate Recipients and Faculty Members by Race and Ethnicity in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThe members of the MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada noted at a recent meeting that they often make generalizations about humanities doctorate recipients and faculty members of color that would benefit from the light that systematic national data might shed on them. This report responds to the…[Read more]
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Karl Steel deposited Bad Heritage: The American Viking Fantasy, from the Nineteenth Century to Now in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoHere’s a key paragraph:
“This chapter will be an exploration of the heritage function of Vikings in America. It will look at their presumptive whiteness, from the early nineteenth century, through the real mania for all things Viking in the mid to late nineteenth century, and on to present day fascinations with the Norse in popular music,…[Read more] -
Julian Grajewski deposited bringing the war back home (to women) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoattempt to bring the horrors of the indo-china war to the most intimate part of women, 1967, xuan loc, rvn
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