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Jedidiah Evans deposited Thomas Wolfe, Transnationalism, and the Really Deep South in the group
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis paper argues that there is a need to look beyond what is merely “homeward” in the work of Thomas Wolfe. I take up Wai Chee Dimock’s expansive conception of American literature as “a crisscrossing set of pathways, open-ended and ever multiplying, weaving in and out of other geographies, other languages and cultures,” demonstrating how Thomas…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited Social Networking in the Scriptorium in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis course examines the literary, cultural, and material life of written correspondence from the poetic epistle to the snarky tweet. And while we will read and analyze epistolary literature (both fiction and nonfiction) such as Ovid’s Heroides, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and
Alice Walker’s A Color Purple, we focus our efforts on “real” letters o…[Read more] -
Jeffery Moser replied to the topic 2016 MLA Election : Book History, Print Cultures and Lexicography in the discussion
Lexicography on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSounds wonderful. It really does help the reader to know the genre and century anyone is writing about. “Material culture” is quite a broad and vague term. Therefore, any further specificity is also useful. At least that is what I find in my work. We may also take note of the fact that our earliest writers had some of the best eyesight (not just…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited Challenging the myth of “a land without a people”: Mahmoud Darwish’s Journal of an Ordinary Grief and In the Presence of Absence in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agon his address at the Madrid Peace Conference, the Head of the Palestinian Delegation, Dr Haidar Abdul-Shafi challenged the persistent myth that has defined Palestinian existence for at least a century by saying: “For too long the Palestinian people have gone unheeded, silenced […] we have been victimized by the myth of ‘a land without a peopl…[Read more]
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Laura Forsberg started the topic 2016 MLA Election : Book History, Print Cultures and Lexicography in the discussion
Lexicography on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoGreetings. I am on the ballot for the forum executive committee for Book History, Print Cultures, and Lexicography. I write to ask you for your support of my candidacy.
I am keen to join the executive committee and to help to raise the profile of this group in its recently reconfigured form. I would solicit and welcome input from members as to…[Read more]
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Eleanor F. Shevlin started the topic 2016 MLA election: Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography in the discussion
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I am a candidate to represent the Book History, Print Cultures, and Lexicography, and I am writing to ask you for your support and to let you know something about me and my qualifications.
An 18th-century scholar of British literature and culture, I have nonetheless worked widely in the field of book history a…[Read more]
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Anne Garland Mahler started the topic ACLA Panel on the Global South and the Question of Method in the discussion
Global South on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agohttp://www.acla.org/global-south-and-question-method
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic Rust Belt Post-Colonial Stories in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoRust Belt Literature
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<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group.
This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust Belt, defined here as industrial communities in the United States. Those ho have been affected by the rust…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Rust Belt Post-Colonial Stories in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoHi again @gloriamla,
I just wanted to pass on a message from @okala35shimobi that ended up in the Commons inbox:
Dear Gloria Lee McMillan,
Could you tell me how to get a copy of the stories? Though neither a resident nor specialist on the Rust Belt, I’m nonetheless interested in reading a story that uses post-colonialism to represent the e…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic Rust Belt Post-Colonial Stories in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoApologies to DANE for saying Diane!
I have uploaded my story to CORE and thank you, Nicky.
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Whiting Rich and Strange in the group
TC Postcolonial 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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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Rust Belt Post-Colonial Stories in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago@gloriamla, you can also upload a copy of the story to CORE, the MLA’s Open Access repository for member work. You’ll get a DOI (permanent link) to share with anyone—not just MLA members—and download statistics, and as CORE is a library-quality archive, your work will also be ensured longevity!
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic Rust Belt Post-Colonial Stories in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoHello, Diane,
Please contact me at glomc@dakotacom.net. I will send a copy of the story.
I am also collecting stories from others for a short story collection to be called Children of Steel. These are fiction stories from people who have grown up in the rust belt in steel mill towns.
Please let others know. We ave a Children of Steel em…[Read more]
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Dane Johnson replied to the topic Rust Belt Post-Colonial Stories in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoI’m from Northwest Indiana, and I would be very interested in reading this story.
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Rust Belt Post-Colonial Stories in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThe ability to colonize, even to poison the people under the power of a colonial power has been studied in other countries. I would claim that the same “dumping” goes on in the Rust belt. People living in the Rust Belt in the US are under-represented in the United States “imaginary.”
Having grown up in the Rust Belt the child of a s…[Read more]
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Stefania Irene Sini started the topic Call for Papers. Wolfgang Iser – Towards a literary anthropology in the discussion
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoEnthymema International journal of literary criticism, literary theory, and philosophy of literature (http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/enthymema)
Call for Papers. Wolfgang Iser – Towards a literary anthropology
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Christopher Michaelson started the topic Living list of stories to study ethics and economics of 21c global capitalism in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoDear Colleagues,
A little over a year ago, I reached out on this forum for help identifying novels that explore, directly or allegorically, business, economic, and work-related behaviors – especially in the context of contemporary, developing markets. I am grateful for the enthusiastic response and excellent suggestions I received and to share t…[Read more]
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Whitney Trettien deposited Renaissance Media syllabus (ENGL 281, Spring 2016) in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThe attached syllabus was written for my undergraduate seminar “Renaissance Media” (ENGL 281) taught Spring 2016 at UNC Chapel Hill. The learning objectives for the course were as follows:
“During this course, students will:
* learn the basic history and culture of media technologies in England during the early modern period (roughly 150…[Read more] -
Alexa Huang deposited Yukio Ninagawa in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoStemming from a culture of translation, Ninagawa’s interpretations of Shakespeare were nurtured by Japan’s rebirth and consolidation of its national identity after the war. His stage works thrive in the contentious space between cultures. In fact, the notion that ‘modern Japan is a culture of translation’ has been taken for granted by many Japanes…[Read more]
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Susan Slyomovics deposited Visual Ethnography, Stereotypes, and Photographing Algeria in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoVisual Ethnography, Stereotypes, and Photographing Algeria
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