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Jesse A. Goldberg deposited Slavery’s Ghosts and the Haunted Housing Crisis: On Narrative Economy and Circum-Atlantic Memory in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years agoIn light of (re)new(ed) interest in focusing interdisciplinary scholarly attention on the history of capitalism – a focus captured in Edward Baptist’s recent book, The Half has Never Been Told – this essay reads Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel A Mercy as a key text for considering the history of capitalism as central to conceptions of circum-…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic GS PROSE FICTION PANEL AT MLA 2019 on Religions and Secularisms in the Novel in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoGS PROSE FICTION PANEL AT MLA 2019
176: Religions and Secularisms in the Novel
7:00 PM–8:15 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019
Hyatt Regency – Plaza Ballroom APresentations
Dostoevsky’s Trap: Precarious Secularity in the Modern Confessional Novel by Ryan Siemers, U of Utah
Rethinking the Limits of Immanence in The Story of an African Farm by Kimberly Rod…
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic A GS PROSE FICTION PANEL AT MLA 2019 176: Religions and Secularisms in the Novel in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoGS PROSE FICTION PANEL AT MLA 2019
176: Religions and Secularisms in the Novel
7:00 PM–8:15 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019
Hyatt Regency – Plaza Ballroom APresentations Dostoevsky’s Trap: Precarious Secularity in the Modern Confessional Novel by Ryan Siemers, U of Utah
Rethinking the Limits of Immanence in The Story of an African Farm by Kimberly Rod…
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic The Routledge Auto/Biography Studies book series in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoRoutledge Auto/Biography Studies
Series Editor: Ricia Anne Chansky
The Routledge Auto/Biography Studies book series publishes outstanding new work from preeminent scholars and emerging voices in autobiography, biography, life writing, life narrative, and identity studies. This series is an interdisciplinary project that maintains interest in all…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic CFP: Palgrave Series in Life Writing in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months ago
Palgrave Studies in Life Writing Brant, C. (Ed), Saunders, M. (Ed) This series features books that address key concepts and subjects, with an emphasis on new and emergent approaches. It offers specialist but accessible studies of contemporary and historical topics, with a focus on connecting life writing to themes with cross-disciplinary appeal.…[Read more] -
Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic CFP: Special Issue — The Textualities of the Auto/biogrAfrical in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThe Textualities of the Auto/biogrAfrical
Following the founding colloquium of the IABA Africa chapter in October 2017, this special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies will both explore and provisionally consolidate examples of contemporary scholarship on the varied forms of ‘auto/biogrAfrical’ life storying that emerge from (and in rel…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic CFP: International Auto/Biography Association Americas Conference – Jamaica in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoLives in Transition: Negotiating the Currents in a Changing World
The 4th Biennial Conference of the IABA Americas Chapter
The conference conveners invite papers that explore the means by which auto/biographical subjects explore lives ‘in transition’ and/or in the process of ‘transitioning.’ How do life narratives explore the kinds of adjustm…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic CFP: Women and Language in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoCall for Papers | Women & Language
Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]
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George Prokhorov deposited WHAT SORT OF JEW DOSTOEVSKY LIKED AND DISLIKED: A NARRATIVE OF A LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIP in the group
GS Nonfiction Prose on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoIn his fiction, journalism and letters, Dostoevsky recurrently mentions ethnicity of his protagonists. Russians, Poles, Englishmen, Germans, Turks, Greeks etc. never act as individuals with their personal life but rather as ‘carriers’ of some national idea. Amidst the nations represented in Dostoevsky’s oeuvre, there are some Jews. The fashi…[Read more]
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Marzia Milazzo deposited Reconciling Racial Revelations in Post-Apartheid South African Literature in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoOffering a reading of Mongane Wally Serote’s Revelations (2010) alongside other recent novels by black South African writers, this essay answers calls for more careful analyses of the roles that race plays within post-apartheid literature and culture. As it questions the shift away from a concern with institutional racism and white supremacy t…[Read more]
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Carl Gelderloos deposited Alien Evolution and Dialectical Materialism in Eastern European Science Fiction in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis essay reads Ivan Efremov’s “Andromeda Nebula” (1957), Stanisław Lem’s “Solaris” (1961), and Angela and Karlheinz Steinmüller’s “Andymon” (1982) in order to explore the relationship between biological evolution and dialectical materialism, as it was negotiated through the trope of the alien in the context of the cultural politics of Eastern E…[Read more]
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Noemi Marin deposited Rhetorical Crossings of 1989: Communist Space, Arguments by Definition, and Discourse of National Identity Twenty-Five Years Later in the group
RCWS History and Theory of Rhetoric on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe Romanian political scene at the end of 1989 calls for a critical rhetorical perspective to understand how totalitarian politics clash with revolutionary changes and how communist space, so ambitiously crafted to cover an entire country’s public sphere, influences, if at all, a free(d) discourse on national unity. Examining official discourse o…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
The History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Resisting the cul-de-sac in Disgrace, Master of Petersburg and Life & Times of Michael K in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoSamuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot ends in both acts with the two tramps not moving in spite of agreeing that they should leave. Even though Vladimir and Estragon realize the futility of their wait, they remain adamant in the hope that Godot may arrive. Likewise, the Unnamable who cannot go on chooses to go on. What essentially translates in b…[Read more]
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Stephen A. Ross deposited Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel: From Teddy Boys to Trainspotting in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoFrom the Teddy Boys of the post-war decade to the heroin chic of “Cool Britannia,” the many tribes and subcultures of Britain’s teenagers have often been at the forefront of social change. Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel is the first book to chart that history through the work of the most important contemporary British wri…[Read more]
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Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Help Us Brainstorm in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoAs we at GS AutoFiction continue to expand our online initiatives, we’d like to hear from you about how we can best use this platform. Do you have ideas for posts relevant to the autofiction community and discipline? Who should we talk to? Do you want to guest post for us? Let us know!
1- What pressing issues in the field of Autofiction s…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Race in Chicago Story: Farrell “The Fastest Runner on 61st Street” in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoRESEARCHGATE:
Update on Rust Belt Lit. Projects for July 19, 2018James T. Farrell’s (d. 1979) 1950 short story “The Fastest Runner on 61st Street, A Story” is set during the Chicago Race Riots of 1919.
LINK: https:…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoReview of Daniel Hack, “Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature” (Princeton UP, 2017).
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