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Peter Schmidt deposited “’Truth so mazed’: Faulkner and U.S. Plantation Fiction” in the group
LLC Southern United States on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoTreats the meaning of the phrase quoted in the title for Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and, especially, “The Bear.” Published in Cambridge UP’s anthology of new essays, Faulkner in Context, edited John Matthews, 2015.
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Carol Zuses started the topic Suggestions Needed for 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Southern Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThe members of this forum will need to elect a new Delegate Assembly representative in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is r…[Read more]
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Jedidiah Evans deposited Thomas Wolfe, Transnationalism, and the Really Deep South in the group
LLC Southern United States 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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Ted Atkinson started the topic MLA 2017: Southern US Forum Panels (CFP) in the discussion
Southern Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoThe Revolution(ary) South
Across its history, the South, broadly conceived, has been the site for numerous revolutions and revolutionary ideas. These moments have been classified under many headings, including but not limited to: rebellion, insurrection, and protest. This panel invites papers that interrogate these revolution(ary) Souths as…[Read more]
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Ted Atkinson started the topic CFP: The Dirty Coast (Special Session – MLA 2016) in the discussion
Southern Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoFrom Texas to Florida, the Dirty Coast shifts, contains, nurtures, kills. Abstracts and brief bio on the ecologies, economies, or peoples making this coast dirty and beautiful, alluring and disgusting. All media. By 10 March 2015. To Sharon O’Dair, sodair@ua.edu.
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Ted Atkinson started the topic MLA Panels for 2016 (CFP) in the discussion
Southern Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoSouthern United States Forum (formerly the Southern Literature Discussion Group) at MLA 2016
Sounds of the South
When we listen to the South, what do we hear?
Taking advantage of the MLA Convention’s 2016 visit to Austin, the live music capital of the world, the Southern United States Forum is organizing a panel that aims to bring together…[Read more]
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Ted Atkinson started the topic MLA Panels for 2016 (CFP) in the discussion
Southern Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoSouthern United States Forum (formerly the Southern Literature Discussion Group) at MLA 2016
Sounds of the South
When we listen to the South, what do we hear?
Taking advantage of the MLA Convention’s 2016 visit to Austin, the live music capital of the world, the Southern United States Forum is organizing a panel that aims to bring together…[Read more]
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Joseph R. Millichap replied to the topic Photography and Southern Culture in the forum
Southern Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoSouthern Quarterly has extended the deadline for submissions to the special issue photography and southern culture to January 31, 2015, and I would be happy to discuss possible submissions at anytime.
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Joseph R. Millichap started the topic Photography and Southern Culture in the forum
Southern Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoThe Southern Quarterly
Special Issue: Photography and the Shaping of Southern Culture
Guest Editor: Joseph Millichap, Western Kentucky Univ. <joseph.millichap@wku.edu>
Publication Schedule: Volume 51, Number 4, Summer 2015
Submissions for the 2015 special issue should relate photography to any other aspect of culture in the South, with both…[Read more]
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Stephanie Rountree started the topic Small-Screen Souths: Interrogating the Televisual Archive {Edited Collection} in the forum
Southern Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoSmall-Screen Souths: Interrogating the Televisual Archive [Edited Collection]
Proposals due September 1, 2014
In recent years, the advent of reality television’s “hicksploitation” alongside the rise of scripted dramatic series such as True Blood and The Walking Dead has seemingly kept the U.S. South as a small-screen spectacle of wonder and ex…[Read more]
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Ted Atkinson started the topic CFP: SLDG @ MLA 2015 in the forum
Southern Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoMLA 2015 in Vancouver, January 8-11
Region and its (Dis)Contents
Participants sought for a roundtable assessing the meaning, value, and/or limitations of region as a framework for U.S. literary and cultural studies. What is “region”? How have notions of region been deployed in literary or other histories? How have the meanings of region or…[Read more]
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