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Judy Bertonazzi deposited The Subaltern and Familial Ghosts: Impossible Representations in The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Beloved in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis paper discusses the relationships made between ghost figures and their living relatives within Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Toni Morrison’s Beloved. In this paper I argue that a specific female identity and agency is represented in these texts through figurative language and symbolization of…[Read more]
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Judy Bertonazzi deposited The Subaltern and Familial Ghosts: Impossible Representations in The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Beloved in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis paper discusses the relationships made between ghost figures and their living relatives within Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Toni Morrison’s Beloved. In this paper I argue that a specific female identity and agency is represented in these texts through figurative language and symbolization of…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear members of the Sexuality Studies group, for your consideration:
Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning Dreiser…[Read more] -
Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear Members of LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, for your consideration:
Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning…[Read more] -
Martin Paul Eve deposited Close Reading with Computers: Genre Signals, Parts of Speech, and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDavid Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas (2004) contains six different generic registers. This article is the first to explore computationally the linguistic mechanisms that create these genre effects. Authorship attribution techniques incorrectly cluster the chapters of Cloud Atlas as distinct ‘authors’ using anything above the nineteen most-common words…[Read more]
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Jervette Ward posted an update in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoCFP: Pacific Rim Conference on English Studies at the University of Alaska Anchorage
Adapt, Adopt, Adept: The Material Phenomenon
March 23rd and 24th 2018
Pacific Rim Conference
University of Anchorage Alaska: English Department
BP Energy Center, Anchorage, AKThe various forms and mediums of adaptation is, according to Linda Hutcheon, often…[Read more]
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Helene Meyers deposited Got Jewish Milk? Screening Epstein and Van Sant for Intersectional Film History in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoA B ST R A C T
Rob Epstein’s The Times of Harvey Milk (USA, 1984) and Gus Van Sant’s Milk (USA,
2008), the two major films that narrate the life and tragically dramatic death of gay
politician and activist Harvey Milk (1930–1978), are widely recognized as part of
the queer cinematic canon but are less often categorized as Jewish films. While…[Read more] -
Alex Feldman posted an update in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoExecutive Committee Candidacy
Dear all,
I am writing to introduce myself as a candidate/ nominee for the upcoming Executive Committee elections. I am a Lecturer and Fellow (Asst. Prof.) in the English Department at the University of Haifa, specialising in Modern British, American and European drama, with a particular focus on the representation…[Read more] -
Merrill Cole posted an update in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoHi everyone,
My name is Merrill Cole and I am running for a seat on the executive committee of TC Sexuality Studies. I would like to introduce myself, my academic work, and my plans for the next few years. I am thrilled to have received the nomination, and I look forward to meeting more members of the group.
I have taught in the Department of…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoStony Brook University
30th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 23rd, 2018
Literature as Activism
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with literature, history, philosophy, and even science are informed by the world in which these encounters take place. No matter what text we choose, we are…[Read more] -
Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: 2018 Law and Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS – 2018 Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop
Columbia Law School, the University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, UCLA School of Law, Georgetown University Law School, Stanford Law School, and the University of Pennsylvania invite submissions for the annual meeting of the Law & Humanities Junior S…[Read more]
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Jorge Calderón started the topic CFP – L’art queer de la performance / Queer Art Performance in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoL’art queer de la performance / Queer Art Performance
Colloque international
Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
2, 3 et 4 mai 2018
Le rapport entre la théorie queer et les théories de la performance, du performatif et de la performativité a été marqué très fortement par la publication de Gender Trouble (1990) et de Bodies That Matter …[Read more]
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Anne Garland Mahler posted an update in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoCFP: Global South Studies: A Collective Publication with The Global South
We are soliciting contributions to Global South Studies: A Collective Publication with The Global South. https://globalsouthstudies.as.virginia.edu
This digital platform aims to advance the field of Global South Studies by providing a conceptual mapping of key concepts, m…[Read more]
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Benjamin Fagan deposited Review of Daniel Hack, Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoA review of Daniel Hack’s work on the intersections of African American and Victorian literatures.
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Jennifer R. Ballengee posted an update in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoCFP for The American Comparative Literature Association’s 2018 Annual Meeting – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) – March 29th to April 1st, 2018.
Dangerous Passages (Benjamin 1940/2018).
As is well known, Walter Benjamin undertook a dangerous passage over the Pyrenees, a route taken by many refugees hoping to flee Nazi-occupied Franc…[Read more] -
Anne Donlon deposited “A Black Man Replies”: Claude McKay’s Challenge to the British Left in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoAnne Donlon delves into the history of the British Left after World War I to assert the significance of the Black and feminist interventions of Claude McKay and Sylvia Pankhurst. Donlon centers the publication of “A Black Man Replies,” McKay’s letter to the editor published in Pankhurst’s newspaper The Worker’s Dreadnought, against white supremaci…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon deposited “A Black Man Replies”: Claude McKay’s Challenge to the British Left in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoAnne Donlon delves into the history of the British Left after World War I to assert the significance of the Black and feminist interventions of Claude McKay and Sylvia Pankhurst. Donlon centers the publication of “A Black Man Replies,” McKay’s letter to the editor published in Pankhurst’s newspaper The Worker’s Dreadnought, against white supremaci…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSpecial Issue of The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945: Call for Essays
Dada and Surrealism: Transatlantic Aliens on American Shores, 1914 – 1945
deadline for submissions: December 31, 2017
Please submit full essays of 6,000-7,500 words in Times New Roman 12 pt. font, with MLA citation style, to the guest-editor James W. McM…[Read more]
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David Squires deposited Pornography in the Library in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoIn a book review of Story of O, part of which appeared on the cover of early paperback editions, Eliot Fremont-Smith wrote that its publication in 1965 marked “the end of any coherent restrictive application of the concept of pornography to books.” This essay explores the implications of that significant shift in censorship policy for lib…[Read more]
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David Squires deposited Pornography in the Library in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoIn a book review of Story of O, part of which appeared on the cover of early paperback editions, Eliot Fremont-Smith wrote that its publication in 1965 marked “the end of any coherent restrictive application of the concept of pornography to books.” This essay explores the implications of that significant shift in censorship policy for lib…[Read more]
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