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Eric Weiskott deposited Quantity in the Alliterative Tradition in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoQuantity matters in the meter of Beowulf and other early English poems. It matters in the form of a metrical principle known as resolution. Metrical resolution served alliterative poets as a way of counting; it can serve modern scholars as evidence for the cultural meanings of verse craft. This paper therefore has two sections: How it Works and…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty deposited Spectral Consciousness in Post-9/11 American Poetry in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoAfter presenting an overview of scholarship on post-9/11 American poetry, my article focuses on a group of largely neglected post-9/11 poems, which deal with spectral consciousness and hallucinatory experiences. These poems not only challenge a number of traditional binaries like, ‘presence / absence’, ‘living /dead’, ‘synchronic / diachroni…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoPlease, inform me whether you have got my article. I have also uploaded it to CORE repository.
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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoAre you busy still? I have sent you my recent research paper on spectral consciousness in post-9/11 American poetry, and looking forward to your valuable feedbacks.
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Kanika Batra deposited Kipps, Belsey, and Jegede: Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism, and Black Studies in Zadie Smith’s On Beauty in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoZadie Smith’s novel On Beauty confirms that the fiction of the second generation Caribbean diaspora has indeed arrived on the international scene, if indeed any confirmation was required after the phenomenal success of Smith’s first novel
White Teeth. The status of Smith’s fiction in the Euro-American academy, which is also the setting of O…[Read more] -
Kanika Batra deposited “Our Own Gayful Rest”: A Postcolonial Archive in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoMy subject is an archive of gay and lesbian activism that helps us understand a postcolonial counterpublic. The project I undertake is of historical recovery and theoretical elaboration of the specificities of postcolonial sexuality-based movements as necessary and long overdue supplements to global sexual activism.
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Kanika Batra deposited Worlding Sexualities under Apartheid: From Gay Liberation to a Queer Afropolitanism in the group
LLC African to 1990 on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoExamining gay journalism as gay liberation literature, this essay forwards a cultural history of sexuality informed by comparative urban and queer studies. My main argument is that gay liberation literature under apartheid lags behind important shifts in sexual activism; and my larger aim is to extend the valences of postcolonial queer studies…[Read more]
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Kanika Batra deposited Worlding Sexualities under Apartheid: From Gay Liberation to a Queer Afropolitanism in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoExamining gay journalism as gay liberation literature, this essay forwards a cultural history of sexuality informed by comparative urban and queer studies. My main argument is that gay liberation literature under apartheid lags behind important shifts in sexual activism; and my larger aim is to extend the valences of postcolonial queer studies…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Jane Addams and Hull-House (historical novel Waking the Dead) in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThe historical novel Waking the Dead is now available at ResearchGate. This data file (there are 20) introduces Jane Addams
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John Edward Streamas replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoNo, I’m afraid that in my department (Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies) the people who keep up with contemporary lit are fiction people. Personally, I know no one who reads contemporary poetry very much, or at least who writes much about it. In fall, in my Introduction to Asian Pacific American lit class, I will assign the new book of…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoI understand that you are extremely busy at present, but it is urgent. Could you refer me to any specialist, who may be willing to collaborate with me?
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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoI am sorry to know that you are extremely busy at present, but we can still resume our academic discussion when you feel free of any burden as I appreciate your critical insights. In the meantime, could you refer me to any specialist in the field of 21st century American poetry, who may be willing to collaborate with me? Please, note that it is…[Read more]
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John Edward Streamas replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoOh no. I have been, and continue to be, extremely busy with several ongoing projects, including the writing of a book proposal. I would have no time or opportunity for a collaboration for quite some time. Moreover, I sense that your knowledge of contemporary poetry greatly exceeds mine. I know several writers’ work fairly well, but don’t keep up…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoSir,
Did I offend you by asking about collaboration? If I did, I am deeply sorry for it. Now, let’s resume our previous discussion and, please, communicate with me as soon as possible.
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Timothy Robbins started the topic Seeking Contributors to The Open Anthology of Early American Literature in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months ago<p dir=”ltr”>Dear C-19 friends and colleagues,</p>
<p dir=”ltr”>We are currently seeking writers, editors, and contributors of all kinds to The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature, an Open Educational Resource (OER) textbook under development with the Rebus Community. Rebus is a non-profit organization that works with faculty,…[Read more] -
Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoSir,
I am quite worried about your silence, and would be greatly obliged if you send some response, for you see how ardent I am in writing some research paper in collaboration with you.
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selisker deposited “Simply by Reacting?”: The Sociology of Race and Invisible Man’s Automata in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThis essay considers Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952) from the standpoint of its influential depiction of African Americans as automata. Through Ellison’s other writings, including his review of Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma (1944) and his unpublished drafts of Invisible Man, the essay links the political concerns of the novel with…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoPlease, respond to my last correspondence quickly. I am yearning intensely for a response.
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Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoYou are indeed right to point out the illegitimacy of categorising 9/11 poems into ‘early’ and ‘late’. In making such distinction I was partly guided by Introduction to Literature After 9/11 by Ann Keniston and Jeanne Quinn, which makes a distinction between ‘earliest’ and ‘later’ 9/11 poems. But now I understand that such distinction is not quite…[Read more]
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Ross Tangedal deposited “At Last Everyone Had Something to Talk About”: Gloria’s War in Fitzgerald’s The Beautiful and Damned in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoNoticeably absent from much of the criticism on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Beautiful and Damned is an examination of Gloria Patch and her role in Fitzgerald’s treatment of war. Fitzgerald offers a fascinating and timely portrait of a young wife dealing with war and remembrance from multiple perspectives, spanning from her Midwestern roots to her a…[Read more]
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