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Nicholas Rinehart deposited The Man That Was a Thing: Reconsidering Human Commodification in Slavery in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis essay examines a longstanding normative assumption in the historiography of slavery in the Atlantic world: that enslaved Africans and their American-born descendants were bought and sold as “commodities,” thereby “dehumanizing” them and treating them as things rather than as persons. Such claims have, indeed, helped historians concept…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Hellenism/Modernism: Negotiating Modernisms and the Philhellene in Greece in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPhilhellenism in modernist literature is familiar. I examine Lawrence Durrell’s works, locating him between Eliot’s Classicism (perhaps the hegemonic Modernism) and the Greek authors who responded to Eliot. Through his ties to Greek Modernists and Parisian Surrealists, Durrell contributed to the Anglo-American tradition in a mode that reflects the…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic 129. Politics of Invocation. Forum LLC Early American. MLA 2017 in the discussion
American Literature to 1800 on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoEan,
Now that groups have their own event calendars, you can add this panel to the calendar by clicking Events above.
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David Rodriguez started the topic CfP – Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for proposals
Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration“We felt enlarge itself round us the huge blackness of what is outside us, of what we are not,” declares Bernard in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931/2000, 213). “What we are not”—the nonhuman—has emerged as one of the most thought-provoking concepts in c…[Read more]
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David Rodriguez started the topic CfP – Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narratiion in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for proposals
Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration“We felt enlarge itself round us the huge blackness of what is outside us, of what we are not,” declares Bernard in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931/2000, 213). “What we are not”—the nonhuman—has emerged as one of the most thought-provoking concepts in contempora…[Read more]
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Victor Ochoa replied to the topic Fellowships — Rachel Carson Center in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoHi Nicole:
Thank you for the information regarding the Rachel Carson Center fellowships; though I’ll be waiting to apply when I’ve completed my doctorate, I’ll save the site and the information for future reference.
Victor Ochoa
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Joela Jacobs replied to the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoDeadline Extended to Dec 10th.
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Joela Jacobs replied to the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoDeadline extended to Dec 10!
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David Palumbo-Liu deposited Open Letter to MLA Members: Why Think About Palestine Now? in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoAn argument for more, not less, attention to issues of Palestine, and beyond.
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Luis I. Pradanos started the topic CFP: Contemporary Iberian Ecocriticism and New Materialisms in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for Papers: 2017 Special Section of Letras Hispanas on
“Contemporary Iberian Ecocriticism and New Materialisms”
Editor: Luis I. Prádanos, Miami University
Deadline: June 1, 2017
The global proliferation of ecocriticism and environmental humanities is significantly enriching the depth and scope of literary and cultural studies worl…[Read more]
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Subarno Chattarji deposited 'The Chameleon War': Passing Time and the Remembrance of the Vietnam War in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThe article offers an analysis of W.D. Ehrhart’s memoir Passing Time.
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Tana Jean Welch started the topic CFP: American Documentary Poetics in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoAmerican Documentary Poetics
CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 28th Annual Conference
May 25-28, 2017, Boston, MACall for papers on any topic related to American documentary poetics/investigative poetics. Part documentary, part imagination, investigative poetry incorporates a variety of data and reportage into the poem—including p…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol started the topic CFP — Dreiser at ALA in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoDear Members of the 20th and 21st Century American Literature Group, you may be interested in the following Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, MA on May 25-28, 2017.
Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic REMINDER: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (12/1/16) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe deadline approaches…
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Alison Bechdel, offering new exami…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
Oceans and Deserts 2017:
Charting Transdisciplinary Currents in Environment and Culture
The graduate students in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona invite proposals for their fourth annual interdisciplinary conference for emerging scholars (graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty) o…[Read more] -
Carmen Lopez deposited Water and Liminality in Praisesong for the Widow and Daughters of the Dust in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis essay examines the influence and effects of water in post-colonial African American women of the Gullah and Gee-Chee cultures from the sea islands of Georgia and south Carolina, reviewing the ecological theory of phenotypes establishing the eco-boundaries of the resulting pure-selves through the examination of one film and a novel: Julie…[Read more]
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Gulsah Gocmen deposited Modernist Resilience at the End of the World(s) in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for Papers for the Panel at the 2017 Biennial ASLE Conference, Detroit, MI
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Debra Ann Castillo deposited The bad boy antihero and contemporary politics: Scarface and Gunday in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn this short piece I look at media creations of the contemporary political landscape by way of popular history as accessed through films. I suggest that one of the ways figures like Donald Trump or Narendra Modi access a certain violent masculinity is through a shared understanding of this repertoire of images.
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Barbara J. Eckstein deposited Carbon and Conferences (Again): The Austin MLA in the Flood of 2016 in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago“Carbon and Conferences (Again)” offers one person’s experience of trying to get to the Austin MLA conference by a means other than airplanes. It asks fellow MLA members for more collective, mindful attention to the carbon footprint of the conference generally. While acknowledging the intellectual and personal joy in face to face encounters, it…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited Metaproceduralism: The Stanley Parable and the Legacies of Postmodern Metafiction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoMost critics of contemporary literature have reached a consensus that what was once called “postmodernism” is over and that its signature modes—metafiction and irony—are on the wane. This is not the case, however, with videogames. In recent years, a number of self-reflexive games have appeared, exemplified by Davey Wreden’s The Stanley Parable (…[Read more]
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