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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Resource on William T,. Stead human rights / Labor advocate (UK- Chicago 1893) on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months ago
A figure who should be back in our minds these days, British journalist/reformer William T. Stead came to cover the 1893 Chicago world’s fair and wrote If Christ came to Chicago about the “philistines” running the corrupt exploitation of the poor in the town. Some pillars of Chicago society pages and front pews in posh churches paid the tax on…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Story in NW Times of Children of Steel unity in diversity lit. project in the discussion
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoHello, and happy new year all!
Our writers have diverse roots. For instance, one such industrial community, East Chicago, Indiana (host to Arcelor-Mittal’s current flagship and largest US full process steel mill) was listed on censuses in the 1940s and 1960s as having 82 nationalities. As times have changed people have moved to suburbs s…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Story in NW Times of Children of Steel unity in diversity lit. project in the discussion
Ecocriticism on MLA Commons 9 years agoHello, and happy new year all!
Our writers have diverse roots. For instance, one such industrial community, East Chicago, Indiana (host to Arcelor-Mittal’s current flagship and largest US full process steel mill) was listed on censuses in the 1940s and 1960s as having 82 nationalities. As times have changed people have moved to suburbs s…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic How to start–the short story in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years ago“How do I start a short story”? Edit
What method work best for you to start a short story? I have just had some productive use of the famed US writer Ray Bradbury’s “vomit in the morning, clean up in the afternoon” method. (Author of _Fahrenheit 451_, _The Martian Chronicles_, _The Illustrated Man_, etc.) Just allow your unconscious t…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan posted an update on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago
@louise_bethlehem Well put about the witnessing needed and post-colonialism. Glo McMillan–who is witnessing for Rust Belt Literature
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Thank you Gloria, and apologies for my belated response!
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic 75 years old today: How Green was my Valley (Welsh Coal Mining Valley) in the discussion
Rust Belt Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoSEE; Essay listed under “FILES” at left.
Citizen Kane and How Green was my Valley turn 75 in a Time of Demagogues.
-Gloria McMillan
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Rust Belt Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis essay challenges the dominant discourse on two highly controversial 1941 films Citizen Kane and How Green was my Valley.
Film critics tend to be outraged and marvel today how this miscarriage of aesthetic justice ever could have happened. Why, they cry, did How Green was my Valley ever get chosen as 1942’s Best Picture of the Year over O…[Read more] -
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Rust Belt Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoHOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY released Oct. 28, 1941.
Today is the 75th anniversary of this controversial (and prophetic) film that won Best Picture Oscar 1942 over Orson
Welles’ Citizen Kane.HGWMV shows the industrial growth and de-industrialization of a Welsh coal mining town long before people thought
of these problems.I have written an essay…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Writing in a Wind Machine: Do Politicians Obsess over Steel workers? in the discussion
Rust Belt Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThere is an article in the New York Times concerning the amount of attention that steel workers are getting. The gist of the essay itself is that far too much attention is being paid to manufacturing and steel worker sin particular by politicians.
The cure is to become something else, get a new job, and leave all the baggage behind. How do we f…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at the Commons in the discussion
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<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group. NOTE: we have a call out for hosts for a panel on Rust belt Literature at the next national MLA convention.
This group will host discussions of all types of lite…[Read more]
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<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group. NOTE: we have a call out for hosts for a panel on Rust belt Literature at the next national MLA convention.
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<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, Bor…[Read more]
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<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group. NOTE: we are seeking hosts for a panel on Bust belt Literature at the next NLA national convention.
This group will host discussions of all types of literary resp…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at the Commmons (Folklore, too!) in the discussion
Folklore and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoEver since Indiana University Folklore professor Richard M. Dorson (1975) surveyed NW Indiana to see if industrial workers had their own folklore (they did) we have been part of your area. His Land of the Mill Rats (Harvard UP) is a landmark folklore study.
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<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation as screen writers and students of film in the Rust Belt Literature group. NOTE: We are looking for hosts for a Rust Belt Literature panel at the next national MLA convention.
This group will host…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Mew Rust belt Literature group at the Commons in the discussion
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I am a produced playwright and have written upon Rust belt themes, so here is how we overlap:
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at the Commmons in the discussion
Literature of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoOur pardon for the omission of areas such as bordering Windsor, Canada, and Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico, both known as Rust Belts bordering our US RB. You are most welcome. We have revised our welcome message to reflect this change.
Also, we are seeking people who wish to host a Rust Belt Literature panel for the next MLA national convention.
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic How create sub-group "Rust Belt Literature?" in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoI welcome your interest, Janet!
We are adding borderlands to Rust Belt Literature including bordering Windsor, Canada, and bordering Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico. Our Welcome has been revised to reflect this after someone at a different group pointed out the omission. So we go a bit beyond the Midwest, Janet. we already have interest from Pe…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at Commons in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoREVISED WELCOME:
Rust Belt Literature
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<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature (RBL) group. NOTE: We are calling for formation of a panel on RBL at next MLA convention.
This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust B…[Read more]
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