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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, 10 months agoPlease, wait. I will reply very soon
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Marlene Manoff deposited Archival Silence in the Age of Trump in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThe Trump presidency has fueled growing apprehension about a media landscape rife with lies, bogus news, and conspiracy theories. These concerns can be situated within a discourse of archival silence which questions the ways in which knowledge may be concealed, misappropriated and exploited in the service of governments, corporations and…[Read more]
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Linda V Troost deposited Choose Your Own Jane Austen Adventure (slides only) in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoPDF of slides for a panel presentation on Jane-Austen and Regency-themed video games.
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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, 10 months agoSorry I’m so late to reply. I am unfamiliar with the first item above, and am surprising myself not to be familiar with the Gluck book, since I keep up with most of her work. I very much like the rest of the list. At risk of getting slightly off-topic, would you agree that fiction writers have written about 9/11 and its aftermaths more and…[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, 10 months agoSir,
Thank you a lot for your interest in post 9/11 poetry, especially in Claudia Rankine. The primary literature I have chosen for our discussion is as follows,
1. An Eye For an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind by Allen Cohen and Clive Matson.
2. Poetry After 9/11; An Anthology of New York Poets by Denis Loy Johnson and Valerie…[Read more] -
John Edward Streamas replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoI’m very interested, especially as US poetry in the second half of the past century seemed concerned with the private and now, with the provocations of 9/11 and Claudia Rankine, poets are being urged to become more public.
John Streamas
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Joydeep Chakraborty started the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoI would to start a discussion on post 9/11 American poetry. Interested members are reauested to communicate with me as soon as possible.
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Joydeep Chakraborty posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoI would like to start a discussion on post 9/11 american poetry which is an important part of 21st century american poetry. Interested members are requested to communicate with me as soon as possible.
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Yolanda Padilla deposited Felix beyond the Closet: Sexuality, Masculinity, and Relations of Power in Arturo Islas’s The Rain God in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThis essay examines the uneasy relationship that Arturo Islas’s The Rain God has had with narratives of identity, focusing on how the representation of Felix’s sexuality makes him a problematic figure for certain strains of Chicana/o and queer studies. In other writings, Islas criticizes Quinto Sol, the chief publishing house of Chicano literature…[Read more]
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Yolanda Padilla deposited Felix beyond the Closet: Sexuality, Masculinity, and Relations of Power in Arturo Islas’s The Rain God in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThis essay examines the uneasy relationship that Arturo Islas’s The Rain God has had with narratives of identity, focusing on how the representation of Felix’s sexuality makes him a problematic figure for certain strains of Chicana/o and queer studies. In other writings, Islas criticizes Quinto Sol, the chief publishing house of Chicano literature…[Read more]
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James E. Dobson started the topic ANNC: 2017 Futures of American Studies Institute (Jun 19-25) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThe 2017 Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth College
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~futures
http://www.facebook.com/futures.of.american.studiesMONDAY JUNE 19, 2017 – SUNDAY JUNE 25, 2017.
DIRECTOR: Donald E. Pease (Dartmouth College)
CO-DIRECTORS: Colleen Boggs (Dartmouth College), Soyica Diggs Colbert
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Yolanda Padilla deposited “Chicana/o Narratives: Then and Now” in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoIntroduction to the edited volume Bridges, Borders, and Breaks: History, Narrative, and Nation in Twenty-First-Century Chicana/o Literary Criticism.
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Yolanda Padilla deposited “Chicana/o Narratives: Then and Now” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoIntroduction to the edited volume Bridges, Borders, and Breaks: History, Narrative, and Nation in Twenty-First-Century Chicana/o Literary Criticism.
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Kanika Batra deposited City Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoCity Botany: Reading Urban Ecologies in China through Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke
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John Charles Hawley uploaded the file: CFP: Queer Theory in African Film and Fiction to
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHow are African literatures and cultures mediating globalizing frameworks for gender and sexuality and shifting understandings of “queer”? From Woubi Cheri and Dakan, to Stories of Our Lives, African film has begun this conversation. From K. Sello Duiker, to Chinelo Okparanta and Diriye Osman, new voices have invited national debates on these top…[Read more]
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Rebecca Haidt started the topic CFP: Sets, Spaces, Stages of Cinema 1750-1899 in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoMLA 2018 Call for Papers: please circulate to Spanish media/film/visual/cultural studies lists and urge your students and colleagues to submit abstracts!
SETS, SPACES, STAGES OF CINEMA 1750-1899
Submission requirements: 250-word abstracts by March 15th
Deadline for submissions: 15 March 2017
<div class=”text_exposed_show”>Pre-cinema…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: "Visualizing Justice" (Literature & Law Conference; Oct. 27-28, 2017) in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCFP: Fifth Biennial Literature and Law Conference – Visualizing Justice
Conference Organizer and Contact Person: Dale Barleben – dbarleben@jjay.cuny.edu
When: Friday, October 27 – Saturday, October 28, 2017
Where: John Jay College (CUNY) – (located on the upper-west side of Manhattan, near Lincoln Center in Manhattan)This conference brings…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: Law and the Humanities Forum Panels at MLA 2018 in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoDear all,
The Law and the Humanities Forum will be sponsoring two panels at next year’s MLA convention in New York City (January 4-7, 2018). We hope that you will consider submitting proposals for the following panels:
Law, Literature, and Emotion
How do imaginative texts explore intersections between law and emotion? Crimes of passion,…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited NOTES Essay on Authority in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on Herbert Marcuse’s Essay on Authority. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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James Gifford deposited NOTES Civilization and its Discontents in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on Sigmund Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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