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Bradley J. Fest deposited “Then Out of the Rubble”: The Apocalypse in David Foster Wallace’s Early Fiction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoExcerpt from first paragraph: In the emerging field of David Foster Wallace studies, nothing has been more widely cited in terms of understanding Wallace’s literary project than two texts that appeared in the 1993 issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction. “E Unibus Pluram: Television and US Fiction” and a lengthy interview with Larry McCaf…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited “Then Out of the Rubble”: The Apocalypse in David Foster Wallace’s Early Fiction in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoExcerpt from first paragraph: In the emerging field of David Foster Wallace studies, nothing has been more widely cited in terms of understanding Wallace’s literary project than two texts that appeared in the 1993 issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction. “E Unibus Pluram: Television and US Fiction” and a lengthy interview with Larry McCaf…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited The Inverted Nuke in the Garden: Archival Emergence and Anti-Eschatology in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThis essay historically situates David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest as a transitional text between the first and second nuclear ages. Written in the immediate wake of the Cold War, Infinite Jest complexly develops the nuclear trope’s fabulously textual persistence despite the relative disappearance of the discourse of Mutually Assured Des…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited The Inverted Nuke in the Garden: Archival Emergence and Anti-Eschatology in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThis essay historically situates David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest as a transitional text between the first and second nuclear ages. Written in the immediate wake of the Cold War, Infinite Jest complexly develops the nuclear trope’s fabulously textual persistence despite the relative disappearance of the discourse of Mutually Assured Des…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited The Invisible Labor of DH Pedagogy in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoIn this essay, we examine the invisibility of pedagogical labor in digital humanities. We argue that the complexities of teaching DH require modes of instruction and effort that are unusual, uncounted, and undertheorized. Unlike publications or citation counts, it is difficult to quantify or to review. Why does DH teaching involve so much extra…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited The Role of the ESU in Creating a Values-Driven DH Community in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoIn this essay, we illustrate how the European Summer University in Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig (hereafter referred to as “ESU”) under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Burr has set forth a set of values that have built and continue to model a collaborative, communal, and compassionate future for higher education. We ide…[Read more]
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Christopher Griffin deposited Recognition Against Liberation: On the UK’s Unreformed Gender Recognition Act in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoIn this short article I argue that the UK government’s decision not to update the Gender Recognition Act 2004 (GRA) is more than a missed opportunity. It weaponises the GRA, now an effective instrument of assimilation and containment. The failure to reform the GRA seems like a maintenance of the status quo, but given that the circumstances have s…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Allo, allo, ici le Bucharest du pedigree! The nationalization of women’s fashion in interwar Bucharest (OA) in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThe newly formed Greater Romania engaged in a process of modernization, with Bucharest as its flagship metropolis, striving to be recognized internationally and reach economic stability. Women’s fashion became a marker in substantiating Romania’s self-assertion as a modern state, with great emphasis on creating a viable textile industry. This occ…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Crafting Illusions: Fashion as a Means of Decoding Social and Cultural History in Interwar Bucharest (OA) in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThis paper examines the influence of urban fashion ideas disseminated worldwide from France and how they impacted the Romanian ideas of style and beauty, as well as the nature of the communication between Paris and the Little Paris. My aim is to decode the interwar Romanian interpretation of the new woman notion and assess what type of role…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Creating City Chic. The Parisian Influence on Interwar Bucharest Fashion (OA) in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThis paper examines the influence of urban fashion ideas disseminated worldwide from France and how they impacted the Romanian ideas of style and beauty, as well as the nature of the communication between Paris and the so-colled ”Little Paris”. My aim is to decode the interwar Romanian interpretation of the new woman notion and assess what typ…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Making Camden History: local history and untold stories in a small community in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThe Camden township is located 65 kilometres southwest of the Sydney CBD and, in recent years, has been absorbed by Sydney’s urban growth. The main streets are a mix of Victorian, Edwardian and interwar architecture comprising commercial, government and domestic buildings. The town site was originally the entry point into what became Governor…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Camden War Cemetery in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoCamden War Cemetery is located on the corner of Burragorang and Cawdor Roads, three kilometres south of the Camden Post Office. The cemetery is on a slight rise above the Nepean River floodplain, with a northerly aspect at an elevation of 75 metres. The cemetery contains the graves of 17 Royal Australian Air Force servicemen, four army personnel…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited किन्नौर में बहु-पति प्रथा : ‘मैं अपने दोनों बेटों को कहता हूं कि वे एक ही लड़की से विवाह करें’ in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoखूबसूरत प्राकृतिक दृश्यों से परिपूर्ण किन्नौर का समाज व संस्कृति शेष भारत से अलग है। यह बौद्ध धर्म का इलाका है, जिसे हिंदूवादी संस्कृति लीलती जा रही है। आर्थिक संपन्नता के आगमन से जाति-आधारित उत्पीड़न और भेदभाव कम हो रहा है। प्रमोद रंजन ने इस यात्रा संस्मरण में किन्नौर की विशिष्ट संस्कृति, बहु पत्नी प्रथा, वहां के समाज और राजनीति…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited J.M. Coetzee’s ‘Jesus’ Trilogy: A Search for Answers in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe 2019 novel by the South African-Australian Nobel laureate, J M Coetzee, The Death of Jesus, is a third book in a sequence that includes Jesus in its title; like its predecessors it follows the lives of a recently constructed family in the dystopian Spanish-speaking towns of Novilla and Estrella. The surreal trilogy, which began with The…[Read more]
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Harald Pittel deposited No More Playing in the Dark: Assembly by Natasha Brown in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe pre-publication praise Natasha Brown received for her debut novel Assembly (2021) from renowned writers like Bernardine Evaristo or Ali Smith is quite remarkable. The author had been virtually unknown to the larger public before winning one of the London Writers Awards in the literary fiction category in 2019. As a young Black British woman of…[Read more]
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Sylvia Fernandez deposited Global North and South Collaborative Efforts towards an Anti-Colonial Digital Humanities in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis presentation will discuss the pilot version of the “Urarina Digital Heritage Project,” a multilingual (English, Spanish and Urarina), Global North (United States) and South (Peru) collaborative effort between scholars and a digital humanities center at an R1 research institution in the United States and the Indigenous Urarina community in the…[Read more]
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Sylvia Fernandez deposited Global North & South Collaborative Efforts towards an Anticolonial Digital Humanities in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis presentation will discuss the pilot version of the “Urarina Digital Heritage Project,” a multilingual (English, Spanish and Urarina), Global North (United States) and South (Peru) collaborative effort between scholars and a digital humanities center at an R1 research institution in the United States and the Indigenous Urarina community in the…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited “The past goes to sleep, and wakes up inside you”: Identity Crisis in Hassan Blasimʼs “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes” in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis article examines “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes,” the last of the fourteen stories that comprise Iraqi writer Hassan Blasimʼs collection The Corpse Exhibition. In “The Nightmares” Blasim is not concerned at all about depicting the reception of refugees in Europe. As evident in the title itself, what is central to the story is the psycholo…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited “The past goes to sleep, and wakes up inside you”: Identity Crisis in Hassan Blasimʼs “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes” in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis article examines “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes,” the last of the fourteen stories that comprise Iraqi writer Hassan Blasimʼs collection The Corpse Exhibition. In “The Nightmares” Blasim is not concerned at all about depicting the reception of refugees in Europe. As evident in the title itself, what is central to the story is the psycholo…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited Investigating the Postcolonial Grotesque in Martin McDonaghʼs A Very Very Very Dark Matter in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoMcDonagh is arguably one of the most celebrated yet most controversial of contemporary Anglo-Irish playwrights. His plays have received mixed reviews from critics and audiences alike, mostly for featuring graphic violence and obscene dialogues. Even though comedy is mostly seen as an inferior genre compared to tragedy, McDonagh, among many…[Read more]
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