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Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY AUGUST 31, 2021 in the discussion
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoI am inviting original essays on the literary works written by American writers, who have lived in Paris from the 1800s to the present, for a book tentatively titled American Writers in Paris: Then and Now.
Although American expatriate literature in Paris is typified by the Lost Generation or the Jazz Age of the 1920s, Americans show a distinct…[Read more]
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Juliane Braun deposited Re-Visiting the Creole Myth: Race and Ethnicity on the New Orleans Stage in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoScholars who have studied the contested meaning of “creole” in Louisiana have
typically maintained that the “Creole myth,” that is the strategic redefinition of
the term “creole” to refer to the white descendants of Louisiana’s original French
and Spanish settlers, emerged during or shortly after the Civil War. Drawing on
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Juliane Braun deposited The Poetics of Education in Antebellum New Orleans in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoPublished in New Orleans in 1845 by a group of free men of color, Les Cenelles: Choix de poésies indigènes is now commonly recognized as the first collection of African American poetry. As a testament to and expression of the intellectual prowess of New Orleans’s francophone free Black community, Les Cenelles deserves to be read as a formally int…[Read more]
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Juliane Braun deposited The Poetics of Education in Antebellum New Orleans in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoPublished in New Orleans in 1845 by a group of free men of color, Les Cenelles: Choix de poésies indigènes is now commonly recognized as the first collection of African American poetry. As a testament to and expression of the intellectual prowess of New Orleans’s francophone free Black community, Les Cenelles deserves to be read as a formally int…[Read more]
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Samuel Baker deposited Scott’s Stoic Characters: Ethics, Sentiment, and Irony in The Antiquary, Guy Mannering, and “the Author of Waverley” in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoIt is well known that Walter Scott adapted the forms of sentimental fiction for his initial trilogy of novels on Scottish manners and that he drew on philosophical theories of sympathy when conceiving of his characters and placing them in historical relation to one another and to his readership. Scott’s adaptations of sentimentalism and of…[Read more]
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Kristin Moriah deposited On the Record: Sissieretta Jones and Black Feminist Recording Praxes in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoIn this article, I examine how Sissieretta Jones (frequently described as America’s first Black superstar, among other superlatives) strategically leveraged her European performance reviews in order to increase her listenership and wages in the United States. Jones toured Europe for the first (and only) time from February until November in 1895. A…[Read more]
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Will Fenton started the topic Library Company of Philadelphia 2021-22 Fellowships: Applications due March 1 in the discussion
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 5 years agoThe Library Company of Philadelphia welcomes applications for its Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES) Dissertation Fellowships, Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellowships, and Francis Johnson Fellowships. The deadline for receipt of applications is March 1, 2021.
Program in Early American Economy and Society…[Read more]
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Gerard Holmes deposited “‘The Bird / Who Sings the Same, Unheard, / As Unto Crowd —’: Dickinson, Birdsong, and the Business of Improvisation” in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years agoBirds are everywhere in nineteenth-century American literature, including the work of Emily Dickinson. Women poets often referred to their poems in terms of making songs. This essay rethinks the birds in Dickinson’s letters and poems. It suggests that Dickinson’s birds, and their songs, show her awareness of business. They exist within com…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Dean started the topic Textual Scholarship 2021 conference "Reckonings, Recoveries, and Transitions" in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for the 2021 conference of the Society for Textual Scholarship, to be hosted virtually by The New School May 19-22, on the theme Reckonings, Recoveries, and Transitions. Proposals are due February 8, for presentations in a variety of formats.
The Society hopes to attract participation in this conference from…[Read more]
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Whit Frazier Peterson deposited A Magnificent Blond Beast: Exploring the Implications of Harlem Renaissance Writer Wallace Thurman as Ghostwriter of a Forgotten Celebrity Gossip Memoir in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years agoIn an early version of his article “Harlem Literati in the Twenties,” first published in the Saturday Evening Review in 1940, Langston Hughes offers the curious suggestion that Wallace Thurman was the ghostwriter of Men, Marriage and Me (erroneously written as Men, Women and Checks in Hughes’ article), the tell-all memoir ostensibly by the origi…[Read more]
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Jervette Ward started the topic MLA Elections Close TODAY!!! in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoDon’t forget that MLA elections close today!
Don’t forget to vote for the new member of the LLC African American Forum Executive Committee and for the MLA Executive Council among other elections.
https://www.mla.org/About-Us/Governance/Elections/Nominations-for-2020-MLA-Elections
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Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited The Free Travels of William Grimes from 1814 until 1825 in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis GIF chronicles the movements of a a formerly enslaved man in New England until the publication of his first memoir in 1825. William Grimes was forced to resettle and wander through Connecticut and Rhode Island because of poverty and insecurity. He is most associated with Litchfield, CT and New Haven CT where he spent the most time and which…[Read more]
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Zélia Catarina Pedro Rafael deposited “Wild Nights”: Death and Humor in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoEmily Dickinson’s unique style of poetic composition is marked by ambiguity and open-endedness, leading to the genesis of a privileged space wherein reader and writer are able to meet as co-creators of meaning. As a poet, Dickinson addresses many themes in ways that are subject to countless layers of interpretation. This essay focuses p…[Read more]
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Will Fenton started the topic Announcing the Library Company's Innovation Fellowship Program in the discussion
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe Library Company of Philadelphia’s newly-launched Innovation Fellowship Program will pair two short-term research fellows-one humanities scholar and one creative practitioner-to critically and creatively engage a collection integral to the Library Company’s mission, values, or institutional history.
The Innovation Fellowship Program is an e…[Read more]
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Will Fenton started the topic Library Company of Philadelphia Post-Doctoral Fellowships for 2021-2022 in the discussion
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoNational Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowships
National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowships support research in residence at the Library Company on any subject relevant to its collections, which are capable of supporting research in a variety of fields and disciplines relating to the history of America and the…[Read more]
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Christopher Hill deposited Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoFigures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form overturns Eurocentric genealogies and globalizing generalizations about “world literature” by examining the complex, contradictory history of naturalist fiction. Christopher Laing Hill traces the history of naturalist fiction from its emergence in France in the 1860s through its spr…[Read more]
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Dr Rahul K Gairola deposited Lightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoLightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today
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Will Fenton started the topic Library Company 2020 First Book Award: Nominations due July 1 in the discussion
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoThe Library Company of Philadelphia invites submissions for the 2020 First Book Award. This prize was established in 2018 to recognize an extraordinary contribution to early American studies using Library Company collections. This year, we have opted to recognize a significant first book published by an early-career scholar within the past two yea…[Read more]
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John Hansen deposited “Defying Stereotypes: To Assimilate or Not Assimilate?” in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoDoes the shift away from following or portraying the typical Asian male in my own life help Asians as a whole? Yes. Doing so can help Asian-Americans because it might allow others who view or interact with me to then change their perceptions about other Asian males and help them be more open-minded and accepting. This personal essay explores such notions.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited May 2020 Bibliography for Cognitive Literary Studies in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoa bibliography-in-progress for cognitive literary, film, theater, and media studies
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