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Martin Paul Eve deposited “Structural Dissatisfaction”: Academics on Safari in the Novels of Jennifer Egan in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoJennifer Egan’s acclaimed 2010 novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad, is a text populated by a disproportionately high number of, often unfulfilled, postgraduate researchers: “I’m in the PhD program at Berkeley”, proclaims Mindy; “Joe, who hailed from Kenya […] was getting his PhD in robotics at Columbia”; “Bix, who’s black, is spending his ni…[Read more]
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Geraldine Heng deposited The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages I: Race Studies, Modernity, and the Middle Ages in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago“The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages”—a two-part article—questions the widely held belief in critical race theory that “race” is a category without purchase before the modern era. Surveying a variety of cultural documents from the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries—chronicles, hagiography, literature, stories, sculpture, maps, canon l…[Read more]
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Rebecca Kennison deposited The Central Mystery: Conversion Experiences in Selected Works of Flannery O’Connor in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoAlthough Flannery O’Connor’s fiction has been subjected to criticism of all types and although she is known for her interest in religious matters, no one prior to this has done an in-depth study on the presentation of conversion in her fiction. With William James’ The Varieties of Religious Experience as a basis for both definition and struc…[Read more]
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Subarno Chattarji deposited ‘‘The New Americans’’ : The Creation of a Typology of Vietnamese-American Identity in Children’s Literature in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThe influx of Vietnamese refugees, ‘‘boat people,’’ and immigrants into the United States after April 1975 has led to the establishment of a significant Vietnamese-American community. There is a body of literature written for children and young adults that creates and delineates this new community within the topography of a welcoming and immigra…[Read more]
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Yomaira Figueroa deposited Faithful Witnessing as Practice: Decolonial Readings of Shadows of Your Black Memory and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article considers Marıa Lugones’s concept of faithful witnessing as a point of departure to think about the ethics and possibilities of faithful witnessing in literary contexts. For Lugones, faithful witnessing is an act of aligning oneself with oppressed peoples against the grain of power and recognizing their humanity, oppression, and re…[Read more]
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Petar Penda deposited Cultural and Textual (Dis)Unity: Poetics of Nothingness in The Waste Land in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agon his theoretical writings, as well as in the subtext of The Waste Land, Eliot expresses the idea of the organic nature of culture and its unity despite its regional diversity. This unity is represented by some formal features of The Waste Land, such as its rhythm and structure. However, cultural unity, at times also represented by the textual, is…[Read more]
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Marissa K. Lopez deposited Chicano Vibrations in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article reads the smuggling of Aztec artifacts described in Lucha Corpi’s novel Black Widow’s Wardrobe in the context of new materialist philosophies of becoming.
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Penelope M. Kelsey started the topic Ethnic Studies Division Panels, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThe following are panels sponsored by the Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature Division at MLA 2016:
113, Social Death and Citizenship, is scheduled to take place at 3:30+4:45 p.m. on 07-JAN-16 in 7, ACC.
568, Archival Legibility and Invisibility, is scheduled to take place at 12:00 noon+1:15 p.m. on 09-JAN-16 in 311, JW Marriott.
618,…[Read more]
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Giovanna Montenegro started the topic ACLA 2016: CFP Hemispheric Approaches to Literature and Cartography in the Ameri in the discussion
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoPlease consider submitting your paper to this seminar proposed for the American Comparative Literature Association Conference from March 17-20, 2016 at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.
Organizer: Giovanna Montenegro, Binghamton University gmontene@binghamton.edu
Co-Organizer: Adriana Méndez Rodenas, University of Iowa
The use and interest…[Read more]
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Penelope M. Kelsey started the topic 568. Archival Legibility and Invisibility Selected for Presidential Theme in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThe Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature Division Panel 568 on Archival Legibility and Invisibility has been selected for inclusion in this year’s Presidential theme, Literature and Its Publics: Past, Present, and Future.”
Saturday, 9 January, 2016
568. Archival Legibility and Invisibility
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m.
Program arranged by the Fo…[Read more]
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Penelope M. Kelsey started the topic MLA 2016: 113. Social Death and Citizenship in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThursday, 7 January 2016
113. Social Death and Citizenship
3:30–4:45 p.m.
Program arranged by the Forum TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
Presiding: Stephen P. Knadler, Spelman Coll.; Amritjit Singh, Ohio Univ., Athens
1. “Declaration of Independence: Origin of American Social Death in Barbara Chase-Riboud’s Sally Hemings,” Michael Lackey, Uni…[Read more]
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Sören Fröhlich started the topic CFP C19, "Unsettling Medicine." in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months ago“Unsettling Medicine: Politics, Society, and Economy in Nineteenth-Century American Medical Practice.”
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
March 17-20, 2016 at Pennsylvania State University
Chair: Sari Altschuler
Deadline: August 16, 2015.
This panel is looking for papers that expand the political, social, and economic con…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: C19 Conference, Penn State, March 2016 in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoPlease consider submitting an abstract to the panel to be proposed for the c19 Conference at Penn State, March 17-20, 2016:
Unsettling the Gendered West
This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and untouched. As recent work by Nina Baym and K…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic French Academics Report on University Conditions in Palestine in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoThe French organization AURDIP (Association des Universitaires pour le Respect du Droit International en Palestine) has recently released the report of a delegation to Palestine of 8 academics from 5 European countries. The full report on conditions for Palestinian scholars, teachers and students under occupation and blockade is available he…[Read more]
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Laura Kiernan replied to the topic Book — Call for essays in the discussion
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoDear Members of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century literature group,
I write on behalf of Miriam S. Gogol on an extended deadline for the following:
Call for Critical Essay Submissions: Working Women
For a book to be published by a major publisher, I am inviting eight to ten essays by literary, historical, and multicultural…[Read more]
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Laura Kiernan replied to the topic Book — Call for essays in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoDear Members of the Twentieth-Century American Literature Group,
I write on behalf of Miriam S. Gogol on an extended deadline for the following:
Call for Critical Essay Submissions: Working Women
For a book to be published by a major publisher, I am inviting eight to ten essays by literary, historical, and multicultural critics on working…[Read more]
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