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Martin Paul Eve deposited Literature Against Criticism: University English and Contemporary Fiction in Conflict in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis is a book about the power game currently being played out between two symbiotic cultural institutions: the university and the novel. As the number of hyper-knowledgeable literary fans grows, students and researchers in English departments waver between dismissing and harnessing voices outside the academy. Meanwhile, the role that the…[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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Prentiss Clark started the topic Emerson Society 2017 Awards Announcement in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months ago**Awards Announcements** 2017
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces four awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson.
Graduate Student Paper Award
Provides up to $750 of travel support to present a paper on an Emerson Society panel at the American Literature Association Annual Conference (May 2017) or the Thoreau Society An…[Read more] -
LaRose T. Parris started the topic CFP: 2017 NeMLA Convention in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to 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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Lisa Zunshine deposited "The Commotion of Souls" in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoAn essay written for “Neuroscience and Fiction,” a special issue of SubStance guest-edited by Pierre Casso-Nogues
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "The Commotion of Souls" in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoAn essay written for “Neuroscience and Fiction,” a special issue of SubStance guest-edited by Pierre Casso-Nogues
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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
Public Group active 5 hours, 52 minutes ago
<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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Doug Steward deposited Anti-Oedipalizing Great Expectations: Masochism, Subjectivity, Capitalism in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoDickens, in his infatuation with the orphan, anticipates Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, which argues against interpreting everyone’s life experience in terms of the Oedipal conflict’s family drama.
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Doug Steward deposited Anti-Oedipalizing Great Expectations: Masochism, Subjectivity, Capitalism in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoDickens, in his infatuation with the orphan, anticipates Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, which argues against interpreting everyone’s life experience in terms of the Oedipal conflict’s family drama.
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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
Philosophical 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
On the intersection of the tenth anniversary of his death (2007) and of the fortieth anniversary of the first publication of his mos…[Read more]
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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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Joydeep Chakraborty deposited Hamlet's Delay: A New Perspective on the Sphinx in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoAbstract: This article poses a challenge to contemporary historicist tendency to silence significant semantic threads within Hamlet, attempts to restore our critical interest in the age-old problem of delay of the protagonist, and thus distinguish the text in itself from its historicised version. In doing so, my over-all argument proposes an…[Read more]
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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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