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Miriam Thaggert started the topic LLC Af Am Events at MLA in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years agoDear Colleagues,
Please join the LLC African American Forum for the following panels and cash bar at this year’s MLA in Philadelphia:
41A. Imagining New Literary Histories: Mapping Aesthetics and Poetics in the Black Arts Movement
Thursday, 5 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 103A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Presiding: Dana A. Wil…[Read more]
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Miriam Thaggert started the topic LLC Af Am Events at MLA in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years agoDear Colleagues,
Please join the LLC African American Forum for the following panels and cash bar at this year’s MLA in Philadelphia:
41A. Imagining New Literary Histories: Mapping Aesthetics and Poetics in the Black Arts Movement
Thursday, 5 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 103A, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Presiding: Dana A. Williams, How…[Read more]
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Miriam Thaggert started the topic MLA Session CFP – Af. Am. Interrogations of American National Narratives in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoAfrican American Interrogations of American National Narratives: how do African American texts (e.g. Morrison’s Playing in the Dark, Paradise, or A Mercy) question the stability of American mythologies? 250-word abstracts, 2page cv to thabiti@wsu.edu by March 25.
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Miriam Thaggert started the topic MLA Session CFP – Nat Turner: From Confessions to Film in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoNat Turner: From Confessions to Film: How do various media re-imagine black rebellion/revolt as related to the 1831 “Confessions,” Styron’s 1967 novel, and/or Nate Parker’s film “Birth of a Nation”? 250-word abstracts, CV to miriam-thaggert@uiowa.edu by March 25.
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Miriam Thaggert started the topic MLA Session CFP – Contemporary African American Theatre in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoContemporary African American Theatre: what critical conversations and new directions must emerge to sustain the vitality of African American theatre and performance and our understanding of its role in society? 250-word abstracts, 2page cv to d_williams@howard.edu by March 25.
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Miriam Thaggert started the topic Announcing the American Literature Society in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoAnnouncing the American Literature Society
On behalf of the Advisory Board, I am pleased to announce the American Literature Society, a professional organization of scholars devoted to the preservation, study and recognition of American literature and culture. Formerly known as the American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association…[Read more]
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Miriam Thaggert started the topic MELUS CFP – 21st Century Perspectives on US Ethnic Literatures in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoMELUS Call for Papers
Special Issue: Twenty-First Century Perspectives on US Ethnic Literatures(A commemorative special issue in honor of MELUS Emeritus Editor Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr.)
Guest Editors: A Yęmisi Jimoh and Angelo Robinson
Deadline for submission: 31 August 2016
Anticipated publication: 2018
With more than a decade and a half…[Read more]
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LLC African American on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoAttendees at the LLC African American Cash Bar
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LLC African American on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoRiche Richardson, Lisa B. Thompson, and Angela Ards
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LLC African American on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoLLC African American members re-connected at the cash bar during MLA 2016.
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Miriam Thaggert's profile was updated on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months ago
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