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Patrick McEvoy-Halston started the topic Gene Wolfe in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoNew group for studies of Gene Wolfe. Avant-garde. Phenomenological. Psychological/social interactionist. Let’s bring him into the MLA. https://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/gene-wolfe/forum/
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Kimberly K. Dougherty deposited “A Death Like the Rebel Angels”: Cather and Faulkner Expose the Myth of Aerial Chivalry in One of Ours and Soldiers’ Pay in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThis essay explores the challenge to the chivalric myth of the aviator in Willa Cather’s One of Ours and William Faulkner’s Soldier’s Pay. Revived during the First World War, this romantic myth cloaked the aviator in idealism and hid the actual body of the flyer in rhetoric. In this war of increasing mechanization, the air war was the last basti…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty deposited Narendra Modi’s victory speech delivers visions of a Hindu nationalist ascetic in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoIndia’s re-elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a victory speech that presented himself as a selfless and humble Hindu ascetic. This vision goes far to promote a Hindu nationalist ‘new India.’
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Chandrima Chakraborty deposited Narendra Modi’s victory speech delivers visions of a Hindu nationalist ascetic in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoIndia’s re-elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a victory speech that presented himself as a selfless and humble Hindu ascetic. This vision goes far to promote a Hindu nationalist ‘new India.’
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Marisa Parham deposited ‘You Can’t Flow Over This’: Ursula Rucker’s Acoustic Illusion in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoThis essay brings together two texts, a letter to the editor written in experimental prose by the Black avant-garde Beat poet, Bob Kaufman, and “The Unlocking,” a spoken-word poem written and performed by Ursula Rucker that appears at the end of The Roots’ critically acclaimed rap album, Do You Want More??!?. By using the aural to disrupt expec…[Read more]
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Louise Bethlehem deposited Stenographic fictions: Mary Benson’s At the Still Point and the South African political trial in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoFrom the mid-1960s onward, compilations of the speeches and trial addresses of South African opponents of apartheid focused attention on the apartheid regime despite intensified repression in the wake of the Rivonia Trial. Mary Benson’s novel, At the Still Point, transposes the political trial into fiction. Its “stenographic” codes of repre…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi deposited Sir Walter Scott and the Caribbean: Unravelling the Silences in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoMy essay interrogates the striking silences in Scott’s oeuvre in relation to Scotland’s involvement as a partner of the British Empire in the colonization of the Caribbean and in the exploitation of slavery in this region. By drawing from narratological theories (especially those articulated by Robyn R. Warhol and Ruth Rosaler), I treat Scott’s…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Richard Wright’s Globalism in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThis essay takes a long view of Wright’s work, arguing that his racial consciousness always extended beyond national boundaries and was forged from a globalist perspective. This outlook is not, as some critics have maintained, a late-stage development in Wright’s career, but rather the predominant theme that unites his oeuvre with a single con…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Richard Wright’s Globalism in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThis essay takes a long view of Wright’s work, arguing that his racial consciousness always extended beyond national boundaries and was forged from a globalist perspective. This outlook is not, as some critics have maintained, a late-stage development in Wright’s career, but rather the predominant theme that unites his oeuvre with a single con…[Read more]
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Jesse Miller deposited Antinomian Remedies: Rehabilitative Futurism, Towards a Better Life , and Kenneth Burke’s Modernist Equipment for Living in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis essay examines the relationship between modernist formal experimentation and rehabilitative futurism, the modern cultural fantasy of a hygienic future in which all illness and disability have been eradicated. Through a reading of Kenneth Burke’s early essay collection Counter-Statement (1931) and his first and only novel, Towards a Better…[Read more]
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Lauren Rule Maxwell deposited Graphic Atwood in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoAbstracts for the panel “Graphic Atwood” proposed by the Margaret Atwood Society for the 2020 MLA Convention.
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Thomas Robert Ward deposited The Formation of Latin American Nations in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis book brings the pre-Columbian and colonial history of Latin America home: rather than starting out in Spain and following Columbus and the conquistadores as they “discover” New World peoples, The Formation of Latin American Nations begins with the Mesoamerican and South American nations as they were before the advent of European col…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Soothing Satire in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoExplores Douglas Coupland’s “Generation X” as almost a Gen Xer’s “version of John Updike’s Couples”; that is, as, a place where, like Updike’s book, friends create a community isolated only to themselves. Though unlike Updike’s work, where — considering the time it was written in, the ’70s, where a generation succeeded in overtly contesting and…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited How Insensitive! in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoExploring several key scholarly explorations on the culture of sensibility in the British 18th-century, this article draws attention to what the current manner of accessing the people who invoked and participated in it are deemed to have been like, and to how this has exposed them to being invested in protecting people of, ostensibly actually,…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Grabbing Hold for Departure’s Sake in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoExplores how Max Vigne, from Andrea Barrett’s “Servants of the Map,” makes use of the dangerous Himalayan mountain environment as almost as Winnicottian “play space,” in which to recover from being requited to a life of obligation, rather than real-self discovery, after his mother’s death.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Matricide in the City in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoExplores the invisible man, in Ralph Ellison’s “The Invisible Man,” as borrowing upon associations of patriarchal maleness, in the sense Ann Douglas in her “Terrible Honesty” argues 20s modern’s did, to secure freedom from feelings of entrapment by maternal figures, whose near-proximity to him is expressed in the text as often incestuous, gross;…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Consolidating Gains in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoA review of Stanley Kunitz’s poetry, emphasizing how he used his poetry to both explore and manage his relationship with his dominating mother. Argues that none of Kunitz’s elegies work as conventional elegies, or as we traditionally understand or expect them to work, but more as working their way to the direction Peter Sacks advocates, as…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Devil Made Me Enjoy It in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores how Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian” encourages, more than identification with, but an impressing oneself within “the kid,” and makes all of his adventures with Glanton and his outriders a ride we thrill at, even if at times very much secretly — as with the slaughter of the indigenous camp. Glanton is a phallic “hero” for us; it is the…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Devil Made Me Enjoy It in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores how Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian” encourages, more than identification with, but an impressing oneself within “the kid,” and makes all of his adventures with Glanton and his outriders a ride we thrill at, even if at times very much secretly — as with the slaughter of the indigenous camp. Glanton is a phallic “hero” for us; it is the…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Lie about everything under the sun in the group
CLCS Classical and Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoShort essay exploring how Plato, in “the Republic,” argues that the only ones who can ensure poets see Justice, “see the light,” are philosophers.
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