Rust Belt Literature
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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. Those ho have been affected by the rust…[Read more]

Hi Nicky,

Here is the link to my recently published co-authored book (with Shubhangi Vaidya) entitled Embodying Mothering: Perspectives from Contemporary India. https://in.sagepub.com/en-in/embodying-motherhood/&lt;
Best wishes!

Anu Aneja

Hello Nicky and my fellow teacher-scholars,

I appreciate the chance to share my forthcoming book publication: Ecocriticism in the Modernist Imagination: Forster, Woolf, and Auden.  It is coming out from Cambridge UP in September.

I will follow Petar’s lead and include the official link…[Read more]

Dear Nicky,

Thank you for this opportunity to share our news.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing published The Whirlwind of Passion: New Critical Perspectives on William Shakespeare in May, a collection of essays I edited.
Here’s the link to the book: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/the-whirlwind-of-passion
With best wishes,
Petar Penda

Hi Nicky,

Thank you for letting us know! My English translation of a novella in Spanish (from El Salvador) was recently published: They Have Fired Her Again by Claudia Hernández.

Thank you!

Cheers,

Aarón Lacayo

Hi again @gloriamla,

I just wanted to pass on a message from @okala35shimobi that ended up in the Commons inbox:

Dear Gloria Lee McMillan,

Could you tell me how to get a copy of the stories? Though neither a resident nor specialist on the Rust Belt, I’m nonetheless interested in reading a story that uses post-colonialism to represent the e…[Read more]

Apologies to DANE for saying Diane!

I have uploaded my story to CORE and thank you, Nicky.

@gloriamla, you can also upload a copy of the story to CORE, the MLA’s Open Access repository for member work. You’ll get a DOI (permanent link) to share with anyone—not just MLA members—and download statistics, and as CORE is a library-quality archive, your work will also be ensured longevity!

Hello, Diane,

Please contact me at glomc@dakotacom.net.  I will send a copy of the story.

I am also collecting stories from others for a short story collection to be called Children of Steel.  These are fiction stories from people who have grown up in the rust belt in steel mill towns.

Please let others know.  We ave a Children of Steel em…[Read more]

I’m from Northwest Indiana, and I would be very interested in reading this story.