SAH Commons | Meena Alexander | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/malexander/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Meena Alexander is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:10:43 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 2a134d04b52bbae087bb76be6fc88d27 Andrea Zemgulys started the topic Joint Conference in Twentieth Century Lit (FeministinterModernist Space Between) in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/joint-conference-in-twentieth-century-lit-feminist-modernist-and-space-between/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 20:07:30 -0500 FORWARDING ON BEHALF OF OTHERS (see email for contact information!)

A joint conference of the Space Between Society and the Feministinter/Modernist Association (FiMA)
University of North Carolina, GreensboroMay 26 – 29, 2026Proposals Due: January 15, 2026

CFP: SOLIDARITY!
Greensboro, North Carolina, the host city for this year’s joint c…[Read more]

]]> 0 bc5164b16277686d63d3ef2b1d08fefd Peter Leman started the topic CFP: World Literature and Disappearance (Special Issue of ARIEL) in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-world-literature-and-disappearance-special-issue-of-ariel/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:28:27 -0500 Call For Papers: “World Literature and Disappearance” 
Special Issue of ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature

Enforced disappearance is widely recognized as a crime in international law, with legislation that reflects the experiences of Latin America dictatorships and focuses on arbitrary detention and torture or extrajudicial kill…[Read more]

]]> 0 81872f27f37e07c52dc30aa298a5657f Heng Du started the topic Respondent/panelist for guaranteed panel on premodern temporality (MLA26) in the forum LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/south-asian-and-south-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/respondent-panelist-for-guaranteed-panel-on-premodern-temporality-mla26-2/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 22:47:02 -0400 We are hoping to recruit a scholar outside of Chinese studies to participate in this comparative panel. I included below a draft of its description, which can be further tailored according to your interests/suggestions:

<b>Natural Time and Human Narratives: Competing Temporal Orders in the Premodern World</b><b></b>

As a comparative study of…[Read more]

]]> 0 7012919d9da8c2e22563a1e67983ff5b Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum GS Nonfiction Prose https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/nonfiction-prose/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-7/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:24:36 -0500 Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing
Editors: P. Muralidhar Sharma & Shashibhusan Nayak

Until recently, Life Writing has emerged as a loose critical label encompassing a variety of genres, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and dairies. The later decades of the 20th century, in particular, have witnessed a surge…[Read more]

]]> 0 22435003a18fb33feda64c6a9915c33f Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum GS Nonfiction Prose https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/nonfiction-prose/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-8/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:57:12 -0500 Hello!

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2025, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2025. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one can…[Read more]

]]> 0 97c54fac0c4abafccc8c3666a3db0025 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-anglophone/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-4/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:50:32 -0500 Hello!

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2025, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2025. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one can…[Read more]

]]> 0 f7a21a2ea3119bcee61780937a76a474 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP Deadline Reminder: Novel Languages Conference (SNS 2025) in the forum CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-deadline-reminder-novel-languages-conference-sns-2025-2/ Sun, 10 Nov 2024 21:02:35 -0500 NOVEL LANGUAGES: The Biennial Meeting of the Society for Novel Studies

Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference we…[Read more]

]]> 0 c793b5b6e251dee1bff2d9cc68b93048 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP Deadline Reminder: Novel Languages Conference (SNS 2025) in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-deadline-reminder-novel-languages-conference-sns-2025/ Sun, 10 Nov 2024 20:57:02 -0500 NOVEL LANGUAGES: The Biennial Meeting of the Society for Novel Studies

Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference we…[Read more]

]]> 0 c5cc64396d5b9776ae727e5016cb122d Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes journal on "Australia And..." in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-special-topic-in-antipodes-journal-on-australia-and-8/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 01:31:47 -0400 CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature — “Australia And…”

Priority Deadline 1 November 2024

Antipodes invites articles for a special feature section in Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) that considers a literary or cultural work (including fil…[Read more]

]]> 0 ffe44bb1e1225719504ae24b32cf6103 Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes journal on "Australia And..." in the forum CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-special-topic-in-antipodes-journal-on-australia-and-6/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 01:24:10 -0400 CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature — “Australia And…”

Priority Deadline 1 November 2024

Antipodes invites articles for a special feature section in Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) that considers a literary or cultural work (including fil…[Read more]

]]> 0 b874032d6be4d13f548d2d987b340e16 Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes journal on "Australia And..." in the forum LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/south-asian-and-south-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/cfp-special-topic-in-antipodes-journal-on-australia-and-2/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 01:06:54 -0400 CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature — “Australia And…”

Priority Deadline 1 November 2024

Antipodes invites articles for a special feature section in Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) that considers a literary or cultural work (including fil…[Read more]

]]> 0 3074a7b3c87a12c56239d4529302b9ba Doris Hambuch deposited Ways of Seeing Nujoom Alghanem’s Nearby Sky (سماء قريبة) and Sharp Tools (آلات حادة) as Docupoetry,Comment voir le ciel proche de Nujoom Alghanem (سماء قريبة) et les outils tranchants (آلات حادة) comme docupoésie in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900961/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:00:08 -0400 This article proposes to establish a
sub-category called “docupoetry” to
classify the documentary films by
Emirati poet and filmmaker Nujoom
Alghanem. Detailed analysis of two
selected films, Sharp Tools (2017) and
Nearby Sky (2014), illustrates the
unique composition, cinematography,
and use of poetic devices, such
as rhythm, sym…[Read more]

]]> 0 663c563867ffa0eedf8c7aa748df7953 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP: Novel Languages (Society of Novel Studies Biennial Conference) in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-english-and-anglophone/forum/topic/cfp-novel-languages-society-of-novel-studies-biennial-conference-2/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:55:38 -0400 Society of Novel Studies 2025: NOVEL LANGUAGES

Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference website: https://sites.duke.edu/sns2025/cfpsubmissions/

The 2…[Read more]

]]> 0 d6956d847fb1616124a4fa541d1c149b Hania A.M. Nashef deposited The City is Closing in: Raja Shehadeh’s Going Home Searches for a Homeland in the group GS Nonfiction Prose https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1893022/ Sat, 20 Jul 2024 03:00:52 -0400 Growing constrictions and suffocating borders, due to an unrelenting occupation, continue to plague the lives of Palestinians living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Raja Shehadeh’s 2019 book, Going Home, illustrates how this stifling existence has only worsened with time. His work provides a chronology of events and highlights changes w…[Read more]

]]> 0 aeca886e970f1b390aba778c188c0119 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New article on Turkish Girls' Studies in the discussion GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/poetry-and-poetics/forum/topic/new-article-on-turkish-girls-studies-2/ Sun, 30 Jun 2024 08:32:30 -0400 Dear All,

I am a Turkish researcher who is an associate professor in sociology with a focus on Turkish girlhood studies from İstanbul Aydın University, Turkey. I recently published an article with the title “A Study on the Poem “Zamane Kızları” (Girls of Today) Regarding the Representations of Young Turkish Girls from a Male-centered Perspec…[Read more]

]]> 0 4e20c10c6fbbea42ecb647f0cf113986 Regenia Gagnier deposited Language and literature in the information economy: the state of English, English and the state in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887290/ Mon, 27 May 2024 04:00:12 -0400 The impact of colonialism and empire and then of transport, logistics, advertising, media, cinema, radio, tourism, and the internet extended the global reach of English. With 1.13 billion speakers, one in seven in the world now has some English competence. Within this global circulation of English, we have the global teaching of English language…[Read more]

]]> 0 121b0b2ee61902971bbcf59ea62c0357 Louise Bethlehem deposited Speculative Fiction from the Global South--Anthropocene Intersections, Interim Bibliography in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887199/ Sun, 26 May 2024 04:00:11 -0400 Interim bibliography on science fiction and speculative fiction with an emphasis on the global South and on Anthropocene-related perspectives generated in conjunction with the Rift Futurism Project supported by a grant from the ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 3011006089)
Louise Bethlehem, PI, English and Cultural Studies, The Hebrew…[Read more]

]]> 0 cf769066663bd61bf9f8d3ea283b1d2e Louise Bethlehem deposited African Futurism Interim Bibliography in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887041/ Fri, 24 May 2024 04:00:13 -0400 A compilation of articles on African Futurism generated in conjunction with the Rift Futurism research project supported by THE ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 3011006089), updated May 2024.

]]> 0 1c0e69b594196cd6142b4fb019f24838 Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic CFP: Air India Flight 182: A 40th Anniversary Conference in the discussion LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/south-asian-and-south-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/cfp-air-india-flight-182-a-40th-anniversary-conference/ Tue, 02 Apr 2024 22:39:02 -0400 On June 23rd, 1985, a bomb detonated on Air India Flight 182, enroute from Toronto to Delhi. All 329 passengers and crew aboard were killed, most of whom were Canadians of South Asian descent. Though this tragedy remains the largest mass murder in Canadian history and resulted in Canada’s longest and most expensive criminal investigation, it is l…[Read more]

]]> 0 48a08c6df444808ecc456c4a0328b2d6 Jenny Bhatt started the topic CFP for MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/south-asian-and-south-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2025-2/ Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:35:37 -0500 Hi all.

I’m sharing a CFP for a proposed panel for MLA 2025. Here’s the brief (35-word limit) CFP as posted. Below, you can see a slightly longer abstract. Please reach out if this might be of interest to you. Thanks.

MLA CFP Link: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2025/webprogrampreliminary/Paper26442.html

Working Title: Reconstructing Narratives,…[Read more]

]]> 0 48a08c6df444808ecc456c4a0328b2d6 Jenny Bhatt started the topic CFP for MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/south-asian-and-south-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2025-2/ Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:35:37 -0500 Hi all.

I’m sharing a CFP for a proposed panel for MLA 2025. Here’s the brief (35-word limit) CFP as posted. Below, you can see a slightly longer abstract. Please reach out if this might be of interest to you. Thanks.

MLA CFP Link: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2025/webprogrampreliminary/Paper26442.html

Working Title: Reconstructing Narratives,…[Read more]

]]> 0 5e5a41ced2d0d5175def6157d8ad7a24 Jenny Bhatt started the topic CFP for MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/south-asian-and-south-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2025-2/ Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:35:37 -0500 Hi all.

I’m sharing a CFP for a proposed panel for MLA 2025. Here’s the brief (35-word limit) CFP as posted. Below, you can see a slightly longer abstract. Please reach out if this might be of interest to you. Thanks.

MLA CFP Link: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2025/webprogrampreliminary/Paper26442.html

Working Title: Reconstructing…[Read more]

]]> 0 1651080c71469d401f52fed810de2a1d Thomas Mazanec deposited Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1874112/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 04:00:15 -0500 Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts, Thomas J. Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks, who first appeared in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 5fa5c79aae42a8efdfbfabfcd3a9da34 Regenia Gagnier deposited The Geopolitics of Beauty in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870899/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 04:00:14 -0500 Building on eighteenth-century philosophical traditions, Victorian aesthetics were often posed as an antidote to the vicissitudes of the Industrial Revolution and the political and economic demands of the marketplace, and in most cultures undergoing modernization the Beautiful has often functioned in opposition to the forces of power and…[Read more]

]]> 0 b15d1b491bfffa0db9d0c730f714036b Regenia Gagnier deposited The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870888/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 03:02:28 -0500 Will students raised on social media still read English literature?
• What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India,
Australasia, the USA?
• What is the role of English language in relation to other global
and local languages?
• What is the role of decolonising efforts?
• How do our respective state apparatuses affect…[Read more]

]]> 0 7258b3b17289817e08e63687382ada67 Ramzi Salti deposited Vivian and Her Son in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870104/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 04:00:14 -0500 This short story, written by Dr. Ramzi Salti, was published as part of his book titled “The Native Informant and Other Stories: Six Tales of Defiance from the Arab World”. It has been turned into a short film titled “The 40th Day’–available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/fspvJSiSQkc. Complete E-Book now available on Google Play and Kindle.

]]> 0 28d540979f0219b38d865883d0fb31af Preetha Mani deposited The Literary Management of Multilingualism in Postcolonial India in the group LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1869276/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 03:00:52 -0500 This chapter explores a tension in postcolonial Indian literature between the monolingual form of the nation and the multilingual tendencies of the linguistic regions through a comparison between the Sahitya Akademi’s (India’s national academy of letters) activities and Tamil putukkavitai (new poetry) writing. By promoting translation and con…[Read more]

]]> 0 e6873c1affb3a760931be2104e4f8c8f Arif Camoglu deposited Provincializing Romanticism: Ottoman Hayaliyyun and Literary Globality in the Nineteenth Century in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1868241/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 04:04:28 -0500 This essay considers the shortfalls of globalizing tendencies in nineteenth-century
literary studies with a focus on the Ottoman Turkish articulation of romanticism, i.e.,
hayaliyyun. Retrieving a historically and geographically hybrid genealogy of romanticism
through the Ottoman Turkish context, my discussion situates romantic imaginary…[Read more]

]]> 0 4911f3546614ca570c39409dfe6ac135 Arif Camoglu deposited Provincializing Romanticism: Ottoman Hayaliyyun and Literary Globality in the Nineteenth Century in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1868238/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 04:00:17 -0500 This essay considers the shortfalls of globalizing tendencies in nineteenth-century
literary studies with a focus on the Ottoman Turkish articulation of romanticism, i.e.,
hayaliyyun. Retrieving a historically and geographically hybrid genealogy of romanticism
through the Ottoman Turkish context, my discussion situates romantic imaginary…[Read more]

]]> 0 e378d0584f4c3a24cd6fd2b3d01ac9cf Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: The Turkish Angel in the House: A Travelling Concept... in the discussion GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/poetry-and-poetics/forum/topic/new-article-the-turkish-angel-in-the-house-a-travelling-concept/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:18:44 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

We would like to announce the publication of our new article titled “The Turkish Angel in the House: A Travelling Concept in the Housewife Poems of Ziya Gökalp and Halide Nusret Zorlutuna” in the Journal of International Women’s Studies. It is possible to download the article from the following link for free:…[Read more]

]]> 0 bcd8a9fe3d7d60fbcbbb3ed79b432a55 Arif Camoglu deposited Loving Sovereignty: Political Mysticism, Seyh Galib, and Giorgio Agamben in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866784/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 04:03:40 -0500 Centering on the poetry of Şeyh Galib (1757–1799), this article considers Ottoman imperial sovereignty in tandem with the discourse of mysticism that underpinned it. A key rhetorical device that enables the abstraction of the politics of empire in this discourse is the metaphor of the beloved sovereign. In the mystical writing of Galib, this me…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b928d5db6d0dee9fe35e0497af8ecba Arif Camoglu deposited Loving Sovereignty: Political Mysticism, Seyh Galib, and Giorgio Agamben in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866782/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 04:01:18 -0500 Centering on the poetry of Şeyh Galib (1757–1799), this article considers Ottoman imperial sovereignty in tandem with the discourse of mysticism that underpinned it. A key rhetorical device that enables the abstraction of the politics of empire in this discourse is the metaphor of the beloved sovereign. In the mystical writing of Galib, this me…[Read more]

]]> 0 d63016f53b2ead1228aa3dc2eae70ffe Arif Camoglu deposited “Supreme in Ruin”: Empire’s Afterlife in Romantic Encounters with Imperial Ruins in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866467/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 04:02:58 -0500 Registered in Romantic depictions of imperial ruins is the endurance of empire in its immateriality: the imageries of empire’s ruination announce a future where imperial sovereignty maintains its presence spectrally. Using Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology, and recruiting further insight from political theory, this essay argues that emp…[Read more]

]]> 0 3ab86a3d044ad2ce044b02ed33cbd17f Golam Rabbani deposited The Creative Industries in Bangladesh: The Case of Coke Studio Bangla’s “Deora” in the group LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866455/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 03:00:26 -0500 This article analyzes the case of Coke Studio Bangla’s music and performance production titled “Deora.”

]]> 0 882e57ab58226466d0cbb934cda2497d Golam Rabbani deposited In the Light of What We Know: A Novel of Its Time in the group LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866342/ Thu, 30 Nov 2023 03:01:48 -0500 Book review of Zia Haider Rahman’s novel In the Light of What We Know

]]> 0 c4ac11e3af08a6a03a3abf2f013d097d Arif Camoglu deposited Inter-imperial Dimensions of Turkish Literary Modernity in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1865834/ Sat, 25 Nov 2023 04:00:13 -0500 Calling for a historiographical shift in literary criticism, this essay stresses the expansionist vision of the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire, approaches its literature as a corpus of representation for imperial subjectivities, and thereby supplements the critique of the narrative of literary modernity identified with the orientalist E. J. W.…[Read more]

]]> 0 7ed0ff2f9c60b03993dbcd456c289880 Steven Schroeder deposited as murder is to crow in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1863980/ Thu, 09 Nov 2023 03:00:18 -0500 Thomas à Kempis wrote that everyone desires peace but not the things that make for peace. Such a universal desire would be a hopeful sign, a foundation to build on as we contemplate (and, no doubt, debate) “the things that make for peace.” I offer as murder is to crow as a record of “perchings” in my contemplation of things that make for peace.…[Read more]

]]> 0 9c6d6a525de8cd5c127db89652936dd5 Jamie Callison deposited Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1860581/ Wed, 04 Oct 2023 04:07:28 -0400 ‘Modernism and Religion’ argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth century. The new prominence accorded to immanence and immediacy in religious discourse is carried over into the modernist epiphany. Modernism became mystical. The emergence of Catholic theological modernism, human rights, Christian…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b773a8ffbe8ffaa9453cc44a4e595f7 Jamie Callison deposited Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1860579/ Wed, 04 Oct 2023 04:00:13 -0400 ‘Modernism and Religion’ argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth century. The new prominence accorded to immanence and immediacy in religious discourse is carried over into the modernist epiphany. Modernism became mystical. The emergence of Catholic theological modernism, human rights, Christian…[Read more]

]]> 0 ec8cc37e4efc11901131157a3298a1f9 Golam Rabbani deposited When the Subaltern Screams: Pedophilia and Patriarchy in Humayun Ahmed’s Pleasure Boy Kômola. in the group LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1858684/ Sat, 16 Sep 2023 01:26:05 -0400 This paper aims to analyze the depiction of pedophilia in Humayun Ahmed’s film ‘Pleasure Boy Kômola.’ It concentrates on the social and psychological reasons for this rarely existing sexual practice or perversion and the oppressive consequences it causes on the subalterns in Bangladesh during the colonial period.

]]> 0 dc6d789a2d242c1f5a8f7977c807d107 Steven Schroeder deposited the epic opposite | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume ten in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1854161/ Tue, 08 Aug 2023 01:13:36 -0400 the epic opposite is the tenth of a series of ten collections that draw on material from notebooks I kept between 2004 and 2013. I returned to that material in 2021 with Basho and haibun in mind, as well as the prosimetrum tradition that flourished in medieval Europe. Both play off a tension between poetry and prose, and, looking back, that is…[Read more]

]]> 0 0c368497307a73690861fee032b30ea8 Steven Schroeder deposited solitude is another matter | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume nine in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1854160/ Tue, 08 Aug 2023 01:10:59 -0400 solitude is another matter is the ninth of a series of ten collections that draw on material from notebooks I kept between 2004 and 2013. I returned to that material in 2021 with Basho and haibun in mind, as well as the prosimetrum tradition that flourished in medieval Europe. Both play off a tension between poetry and prose, and, looking back,…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea2ef9f95e46db5aa11509fb14d94737 Steven Schroeder deposited a composition of fractions | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume eight in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1854159/ Tue, 08 Aug 2023 01:07:59 -0400 a composition of fractions is the eighth of a series of ten collections that draw on material from notebooks I kept between 2004 and 2013. I returned to that material in 2021 with Basho and haibun in mind, as well as the prosimetrum tradition that flourished in medieval Europe. Both play off a tension between poetry and prose, and, looking back,…[Read more]

]]> 0 9538c7bf1d2cfe2269b0e0c6c83ea446 Steven Schroeder deposited how this city lies | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume seven in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1853857/ Fri, 04 Aug 2023 02:26:45 -0400 The seventh of ten notebooks, drafted between June 2008 and March 2009. Some of the material has appeared previously in poetry collections I have published since 2006, but I have gone back to the original drafts to rethink and reconfigure what appears here.

]]> 0 87fbb21f14bb6552ea962e516704b0f1 Steven Schroeder deposited the fleeting possibility of otherwise | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume six in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1853856/ Fri, 04 Aug 2023 02:23:40 -0400 The sixth of ten notebooks, drafted between June 2007 and June 2008. Some of the material has appeared previously in poetry collections I have published since 2006, but I have gone back to the original drafts to rethink and reconfigure what appears here. Many of the poems in part two are included in a dim sum of the day before, published by Ink…[Read more]

]]> 0 eae592cce7e3af51b8d0ebade781cc8d Steven Schroeder deposited before the body was cold | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume five in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1853271/ Tue, 01 Aug 2023 02:23:40 -0400 The fifth of ten notebooks, drafted between April 2006 and June 2007. Some of the material has appeared previously in poetry collections I have published since 2006, but I have gone back to the original drafts to rethink and reconfigure what appears here. While particular places are referenced in the text of some of the poems in this volume, only…[Read more]

]]> 0 b233785285bed1f828be67108ae2e5d0 Steven Schroeder deposited an orchestration of silences | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume four in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1853086/ Sat, 29 Jul 2023 02:28:05 -0400 The fourth of ten notebooks, drafted between February and August 2006. Some of the material has appeared previously in poetry collections I have published since 2006, but I have gone back to the original drafts to rethink and reconfigure what appears here. This fourth volume differs from the first three in that all of the compositions are clearly…[Read more]

]]> 0 20e140ccbfcde129dc0cd8ffc8fdb84d Steven Schroeder deposited the fragility of gathering | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume three in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1853085/ Sat, 29 Jul 2023 02:24:46 -0400 The third of a series of collections that draw on material from notebooks I kept between 2004 and 2013. I returned to that material in 2021 with Basho and haibun in mind, as well as the prosimetrum tradition that flourished in medieval Europe. Both play off a tension between poetry and prose, and, looking back, that is what I found myself doing…[Read more]

]]> 0 9e9d4e476b83a091365554a754118ac8 Steven Schroeder deposited deep enough to hold a city | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume two in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1852466/ Sat, 22 Jul 2023 02:23:51 -0400 The second of a series of collections that draw on material from notebooks I kept between 2004 and 2013. I returned to that material in 2021 with Basho and haibun in mind, as well as the prosimetrum tradition that flourished in medieval Europe. Both play off a tension between poetry and prose, and, looking back, that is what I found myself doing…[Read more]

]]> 0 f0783317a4a393b57099344e3fad8d8b Steven Schroeder deposited a tiny circle tessellated | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume one in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1852241/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 02:28:34 -0400 a tiny circle tessellated is the first of a series of collections that draw on material from notebooks I kept between 2004 and 2013. I returned to that material in 2021 with Basho and haibun in mind, as well as the prosimetrum tradition that flourished in medieval Europe. Both play off a tension between poetry and prose, and, looking back, that is…[Read more]

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