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Travis M. Foster deposited Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States, Introduction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years agoIntroduction to Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (Oxford UP, 2019).
If your library doesn’t already own a copy, please consider submitting a purchase request.
Full citation: Travis M. Foster, Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic Call for (Self)Nominations for the 2020 Election in the discussion
CLCS European Regions on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe CLCS Forum European Region welcomes nominations and self-nominations for the upcoming election to replace departing Executive Committee member Corinne Scheiner by 25 January.
The main duties are to design topics for our guaranteed sessions, to identify candidates for election, and to think of ways to promote European Studies. MLA attendance…[Read more]
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Michelle A. Massé replied to the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis is a great idea that will bring together the many discussions that have been held not only at MLA and elsewhere. I too am looking forward to more information!
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Beth Widmaier Capo replied to the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis sounds fantastic. Do you have instructions (deadline, length, address) for abstract submissions?
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Shannon Herbert started the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoIn 2017, when Alyssa Milano encouraged women to use the hashtag #metoo if they’d ever “been sexually harassed or assaulted” social media feeds were suddenly flooded with the phrase. People were quick to point out that #metoo did not originate with Milano, but with Tarana Burke, a social worker and activist who proposed the phrase in 2006. Since…[Read more]
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Martin Paul Eve deposited Information Labour and Shame in Farmer and Chevli’s Abortion Eve in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis article conducts the first in-depth political-aesthetic analysis of Joyce Farmer and Lyn Chevli’s Abortion Eve. In this article we argue that Abortion Eve uses its visual form in a way that cuts between the contexts of later forms of graphic medicine and feminist comix, and in so doing contributed to a political culture of feminist i…[Read more]
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Julie Phillips Brown deposited Otherbreath: Bare Life and the Limits of Self in Claudia Rankine’s ‘Citizen’ in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoFor the “Extreme Texts” special issue of Jacket2, edited by Divya Victor (2019)
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Scott Challener deposited Latinx Literatures and Cultures in the U.S. and Beyond in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will concentrate our attention on works by Chicanos, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Dominican Americans. We will consider how these works represent and participate in the upheavals that characterize the…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic S340: The Space Between Creative Nonfiction and Literary Criticism in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 6 years agoMelody Nixon will be unable to join us for S340: “The Space Between Creative Nonfiction and Literary Criticism: Theorizing, Writing, and Publishing Critical-Creative Hybrids” (Friday 3:30–4:45). She requests that those interested review her comments (attached) and consider her questions/prompts/provocations. Please join us in Sheraton Rav…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited The New Border in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis course is a study of the literature of the U.S.-Mexico border from the 1980s to the present. We begin with Gloria Anzaldúa’s foundational texts, Borderlands / La Frontera, and her landmark feminist anthology, co-edited with Cherríe Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Radical Writings by Women of Color. We then consider the legacies and aft…[Read more]
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic MLA 2020 GS Prose Fiction Panel "Beyond the Individual" in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoBeyond the Individual #763
Sunday, January 12 2020
1:45pm-3pm
Sheraton — Willow BPresiding: Daniel Hack
- Character Networks and Collectivity Scott Selisker, U of Arizona
- Characterization and Combination Andrea Kelly Henderson, U of California, Irvine
- Mohsin Hamid’s Global Direct Address Benjamin Mangrum, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic MLA 2020 GS Prose Fiction Roundtable: Fictions of Belonging in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoFriday, 10 January 2020
10:15am-11:30am
Sheraton — Willow BSpeakers address theories and histories about modes of belonging in relation to fiction, including blackness, imperial subjects, migrancy and the diaspora, intimate archives, transhistorical and future audiences, queer theory, utopian politics, and…
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic DEADLINE EXTENDED – CFP Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoDEADLINE EXTENDED
Submit papers to the Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil Symposium (University of Miami). Papers are accepted in Portuguese and English.
For more information and questions,…[Read more]
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Tanja Stampfl started the topic Tenure Track Position in Global Anglophone Literature and Composition in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe Department of English at the University of the Incarnate Word seeks applications for an Assistant Professor position in Composition and Global Anglophone Literature with an emphasis on social justice issues (tenure-track, 4-4 teaching load) beginning August 2020. Ph.D. is required prior to the appointment start date. The successful candidate…[Read more]
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoHello everyone,
I am happy to share the Call for Papers for this symposium that will take place at the University of Miami, in March 2020.
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https://mailchi.mp/miami.edu/documenting-diversity-and-democracy-in-brazil-call-for-papers-2019Click to follow link.”…[Read more]
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoHello everyone, I am happy to share the Call for Papers for this symposium that will take place at the University of Miami, in March 2020.
https://mailchi.mp/miami.edu/documenting-diversity-and-democracy-in-brazil-call-for-papers-2019
Please share with those who may be interested.
Thank you so much!
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Kathryn S. Roberts deposited Writing “Other Spaces”: Katherine Anne Porter’s Yaddo in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoDrawing on Michel Foucault’s concept of the heterotopia, this essay argues that modernism was a heterotopic movement, in which the creation of alternative social environments (such as Gertrude Stein’s atelier or the writers’ colony), and the imagination of alternative forms of social life in literature, were mutually informing, and inext…[Read more]
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Kathryn S. Roberts deposited Our Town, the MacDowell Colony, and the Art of Civic Mediation in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThornton Wilder’s Our Town (1938) has found unusual currency of late. In 2011, the play lent its name to a major funding program launched by the National Endowment for the Arts; in 2017, it appeared in the center of a popular podcast and was revived by a British theater company in the wake of a terrorist attack. These productions recognize what t…[Read more]
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Juliane Braun deposited Bioprospecting Breadfruit: Imperial Botany, Transoceanic Relations, and the Politics of Translation in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis article traces the breadfruit tree’s strange career as an eighteenth-century superfood, its journey from the Pacific world to the Caribbean islands, and the rhetorical practices, epistemological slippages, and linguistic permutations that undergirded these developments. Comparing indigenous, Spanish, English, Dutch, French, and US-American d…[Read more]
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