SAH Commons | Tara Prescott | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/taraprescott/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Tara Prescott is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:48:38 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 5f36217dcaa6136d36924bb8c7825f3b Alan J. Gravano started the topic #26428-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC and AATI in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/26428-non-guaranteed-italian-american-llc-and-aati-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:07:58 -0500 #26428-Non-Guaranteed Italian American LLC and AATI Nonguaranteed Session

Title:  Helen Barolini’s Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian American Women at Forty

This panel celebrates one of the seminal classics of Italian American literature on the advent of its fortieth anniversary. Helen Barolini’s 1985 anthology marked a fundam…[Read more]

]]> 0 4e8f08b9eb09ab00a8e0a5eb284bc2e1 Alan J. Gravano started the topic #25997: Guaranteed Allied Organization Session for IASA in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/25997-guaranteed-allied-organization-session-for-iasa-2/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:04:41 -0500 #25997: Allied Organization Session for IASA Guaranteed

Title: (In)Visibility in the Marginalized Field of Italian American Studies

MLA Description: Examines Morrison’s assertion that “Invisible ink is what lies under, between, outside the lines, hidden until the right reader discovers it,” then can only Italian Americans be the “right…[Read more]

]]> 0 7beeceb1ef2bb3838e45fe388fcb0fd7 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2024-forum-delegate-election-12/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 13:53:34 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 0 8736ba23e2d0061913427cec10657c36 Jamie Callison deposited Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1860580/ Wed, 04 Oct 2023 04:03:06 -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 b97a31ba9603264fa6821c6b6d5de687 Arthur Wang started the topic CFP: Inaugural Post45 Essay Prizes for Emerging and Contingent Scholars in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/cfp-inaugural-post45-essay-prizes-for-emerging-and-contingent-scholars/ Fri, 08 Sep 2023 18:31:57 -0400 Post45 Journal is pleased to announce that we are currently accepting submissions for two article prizes: the Mary Esteve Emerging Scholar Essay Prize and the Post45 Essay Prize for Contingent Scholars. The Emerging Scholar prize is named in honor of two-time Post45 Journal editor Mary Esteve to celebrate her commitment to the work of the journ…[Read more]

]]> 0 3d63245016c9e13af946c7ebccfe51ec Stephanie Rountree started the topic CFP: Record, Document, Archive [edited collection, advance contract LSU Press] in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/cfp-record-document-archive-edited-collection-advance-contract-lsu-press/ Thu, 07 Sep 2023 20:09:28 -0400 Record, Document, Archive: Constructing the South Out of Region [edited collection]

Under advance contract with Louisiana State University Press

Editors: Stephanie Rountree, Lisa Hinrichsen, and Gina Caison

Proposals (500 words): November 1, 2023

Completed Chapters (7,000 words): March 15, 2024

 

As the double meaning of our title suggests,…[Read more]

]]> 0 93538900b3546bc5791869908eaa5261 Bradley J. Fest deposited Consider David Foster Wallace: Critical Essays edited by David Hering in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847392/ Sat, 27 May 2023 03:28:00 -0400 Review of Consider David Foster Wallace.

]]> 0 fecc9ca554e24fba362032d0cfed7522 Bradley J. Fest deposited Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847388/ Sat, 27 May 2023 03:10:34 -0400 This interview with esteemed literary critic J. Hillis Miller was conducted via Skype on July 17, 2013. Miller speaks about a number of issues important to his life and work. Providing a number of emblematic parables, Miller discusses his early career, his work on the poetry of William Carlos Williams, and his famous essay “The Critic as H…[Read more]

]]> 0 4b9ac4cca9adb060a84b0f7f630cfa9d Bradley J. Fest deposited An Interview with Jonathan Arac in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847383/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:50:03 -0400 This interview with literary critic Jonathan Arac was conducted at the University of Pittsburgh on May 19, 2015. Arac, a member of the boundary 2 editorial collective since 1979, speaks at length about his life and work. Addressing the impact of theory on his career, he discusses how he came to be associated with the New Americanists, his project…[Read more]

]]> 0 65e49f2b44706a042e7e19a069edf897 Bradley J. Fest deposited “Then Out of the Rubble”: The Apocalypse in David Foster Wallace’s Early Fiction in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847379/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:38:10 -0400 Excerpt from first paragraph: In the emerging field of David Foster Wallace studies, nothing has been more widely cited in terms of understanding Wallace’s literary project than two texts that appeared in the 1993 issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction. “E Unibus Pluram: Television and US Fiction” and a lengthy interview with Larry McCaf…[Read more]

]]> 0 c9c519e8f299e85d32b5c1c938a08dc8 Bradley J. Fest deposited The Inverted Nuke in the Garden: Archival Emergence and Anti-Eschatology in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847377/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:28:38 -0400 This essay historically situates David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest as a transitional text between the first and second nuclear ages. Written in the immediate wake of the Cold War, Infinite Jest complexly develops the nuclear trope’s fabulously textual persistence despite the relative disappearance of the discourse of Mutually Assured Des…[Read more]

]]> 0 f80e06d0d97a09b764e4c22fc1e47ae1 Amel Abbady deposited Homeland as a Site of Trauma in Selected Short Stories by Edwidge Danticat in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841276/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:15:38 -0400 The main objective of this article is to examine the representation of ʻhomelandʼ in three short stories by Caribbean-American writer Edwidge Danticat: “The Book of the Dead,” “Night Talkers,” and “The Gift.” All three stories represent Haitian migrants in the multi-cultural setting of the United States. A central theme that connects these stories…[Read more]

]]> 0 f0bad784b67525a89225838ddcb1ffef Matthew Calihman started the topic MLA Proposed Session: Political Oratory and African Am Lit (abstracts by 3/13) in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/mla-proposed-session-political-oratory-and-african-am-lit-abstracts-by-3-13/ Tue, 21 Feb 2023 16:54:11 -0500 I am proposing a special session at MLA 2024 on “Political Oratory and African American Literature.”  Papers will examine speeches by elected officials as contributions to African American literary discourse.   Please email 300-word abstracts to matthewcalihman@missouristate.edu by March 13.

Matthew Calihman, Professor of English, Missouri S…[Read more]

]]> 0 860038066c6c56cfe47a64407ce6557b Faye Hammill deposited The Frantic Atlantic: Ocean Liners in the Interwar Imagination in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1830475/ Thu, 19 Jan 2023 03:50:53 -0500 Transatlantic literary exchange depended, during the 19th and earlier 20th centuries, on the ocean liner. Books and periodicals were exported via sea routes, lent among passengers or through ships’ libraries, and even bought and sold on board. The High Seas Bookshops, established on some Anchor Line vessels in the 1920s, strikingly demonstrate the…[Read more]

]]> 0 f27d9e0fd0f2119e39fa1d1623c445f8 Joseph R. Millichap deposited James Agee, Frances Wickes, and The Morning Watch as Shadowy Autobiography in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1823109/ Sun, 20 Nov 2022 02:35:02 -0500 James Agee’s complicated life and complex work have elicited varied critical responses, but none thus far by way of the writer’s intriguing relationship with his sometime analyst Frances Wickes. I believe Agee’s autobiographical writings prove both intertextual with and influenced by Wickes’s work, especially in regard to her novel and to The Mor…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0ac8eea82a7ad3730039f42b79e2af5 Amel Abbady deposited Afghanistan’s “Bacha Posh”: Gender-Crossing in Nadia Hashimi’s The Pearl That Broke Its Shell in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1789159/ Sat, 30 Jul 2022 03:48:49 -0400 This article explores the tradition of Bacha Posh in Afghan culture as depicted in Afghan-American Nadia Hashimiʼs debut novel The Pearl that Broke its Shell (2014). In this novel, Hashimi shows how Afghan girls are obliged to cross-dress and live dual lives as boys for several years to lay claim for their rights to education and freedom of…[Read more]

]]> 0 b0660ae358322d6ee4346a8f6b1d9dab Amel Abbady deposited "'You cannot assimilate Indian ghosts' : a magical realist reading of Louise Erdrich's The Night Watchman" in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1788676/ Tue, 26 Jul 2022 03:48:53 -0400 In The Night Watchman (2020), Louise Erdrich continues to blur the lines between history and fiction as she has done in several of her novels. Erdrich introduces the reader to several magical elements that appear to be entirely real: two ghosts, a dog that talks, and an unearthly powwow with Jesus as one of the dancers. The main objective of this…[Read more]

]]> 0 6210ae1e10cd817ec982acb171cc6c32 Patrick Chura started the topic Call for Essays on African American Literature and Culture in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/call-for-essays-on-african-american-literature-and-culture-3/ Wed, 27 Apr 2022 13:51:00 -0400 The non-profit digital scholarly database The Literary Encyclopedia was founded in 1998 to provide a scholarly online resource for university-level teaching and research. We are in the process of expanding our offerings in the field of African American Literature and Culture.  

We’re interested in commissioning reference articles (2,000-…[Read more]

]]> 0 dae9a5931ba00017087aa15b684373fd Aldon Lynn Nielsen deposited Of Dr. Shelby Steele and Others in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1769326/ Thu, 27 Jan 2022 02:23:52 -0500 A sharply critical response to Shelby Steele’s first book, The Content of Our Character.

]]> 0 0b0cd8421792f92cfef9abb81c5dd485 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe's Fiction in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1755574/ Sat, 16 Oct 2021 03:50:44 -0400 Gene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]

]]> 0 266c2c10e034db335f945417ec0110db Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW - PROPOSALS BY AUGUST 31, 2021 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/cfp-american-writers-in-paris-then-and-now-proposals-by-august-31-2021-3/ Wed, 21 Jul 2021 16:26:39 -0400 I am inviting original essays on the literary works written by American writers, who have lived in Paris from the 1800s to the present, for a book tentatively titled American Writers in Paris: Then and Now.

Although American expatriate literature in Paris is typified by the Lost Generation or the Jazz Age of the 1920s, Americans show a distinct…[Read more]

]]> 0 a33f9abf6bcfa92f58f18af2839226ad Joseph R. Millichap deposited “The Dark Mirror of Our Lives”: Richard Wright, 12 Million Black Voices, and Auto/biography in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1725623/ Sun, 31 Jan 2021 02:23:44 -0500 First presented as a paper at the 2018 SAMLA Convention in Atlanta, this article will become a chapter of my book in progress on the photobooks of the 1930s and 1940s illustrated with the photographs of the Farm Security Administration.

]]> 0 4714f702f4606c1ba8599585288cd575 Scott Challener deposited Rehearing “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” in an Era of Global Decolonization: ASK YOUR MAMA’s Jazz Poetics in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1725450/ Fri, 29 Jan 2021 04:16:57 -0500 A brief talk for a roundtable on the centenary of Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.”

]]> 0 2c84467ac4c59f30c61b01fafe458db1 Scott Challener deposited The New Border (Spring 2021) in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1725447/ Fri, 29 Jan 2021 04:06:37 -0500 This 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]

]]> 0 3d10070921069dc5bd0d7046fa12e9e6 Scott Challener deposited Contemporary Latinx Literatures & Cultures in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1725444/ Fri, 29 Jan 2021 03:53:13 -0500 This course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the last two decades. We will concentrate our attention on how contemporary art works represent and participate in the upheavals of the twenty-first century—9/11, global economic and ecological crisis, mass migration and mass deportation, political and social mobilization, s…[Read more]

]]> 0 6dce9f6aab97c8e7c8935e57b1ce6f5b Mark Sample deposited ENG 296 - Science Fiction (Spring 2021) in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1725438/ Fri, 29 Jan 2021 02:26:45 -0500 The syllabus for science fiction course offered Spring 2021 in the English Department at Davidson College.

]]> 0 f6c7e9a603ecd93339d561ed6454e21a Kate Pond deposited “Sapience” The (Attempted) Making of a Modern Myth: Storybuilding as a Component of Social Justice in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1719675/ Sat, 12 Dec 2020 02:25:17 -0500 This autoethnographic exploration, describes and reflects upon my attempt to crowdsource a modern myth on the origins of racism in America. It draws on my work in narrative studies with a special focus on stories and their role in human development. Part one is analysis of the ‘functions’ of story as both plot variables and sociological act…[Read more]

]]> 0 023cee19ae4517f7dded7f7751897cef Amin Nash deposited Romantic American Ideals and Disruptive Perceptions: Human and Character Disconnections in Nabokov’s Lolita with Observations from Kubrick’s Film in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1714427/ Sat, 24 Oct 2020 02:37:30 -0400 Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” is known for its seductive writing despite its destructive subject matter. How does this novel accomplish such a juxtaposition? How does the novel keep the reader interested despite Humber blatantly attacking Dolores Haze? This essay explores critically explores the technical method which Nabokov uses in “Lolita.” The…[Read more]

]]> 0 3fa2bdab3708e6d85cfc2fd34af5a46b Lisa L. Tyler deposited Ernest Hemingway, Global American Modernist in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1695233/ Sat, 04 Jul 2020 16:25:21 -0400 A Companion to World Literature. John Wiley and Sons, 2020. Available in Wiley Online Library, https://www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118635193

]]> 0 7c93b626b64dc8fd92b190952e6e1cf7 Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited Books.Files: Preservation of Digital Assets in the Contemporary Publishing Industry (A Report) in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1682250/ Fri, 27 Mar 2020 16:26:33 -0400 The book publishing industry is an important social, cultural, and economic institution whose records deserve to be preserved for the public good. Books.Files was an exploratory project funded in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation aimed at assessing the archival value of digital assets in the contemporary publishing industry for stakeholders…[Read more]

]]> 0 face5953efa69d8b08032a3b9ed9c36d James Gifford deposited in our time: The 1924 Text in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1679081/ Sat, 22 Feb 2020 03:59:47 -0500 This critical edition of Hemingway’s 1924 version of in our time is the second of three volumes for each major state of the text. Few writers have shaped the style of twentieth century prose as did Hemingway, and it all began with the “vignettes” of in our time, which have been largely unavailable for scholars and entirely out of reach for…[Read more]

]]> 0 f5f4a6a662e2264bd0a1c4a8ad217be4 Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Digital Wallace: Networked Pedagogies and Distributed Reading in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1676855/ Fri, 31 Jan 2020 16:27:14 -0500 This is the peer-reviewed submission version of the essay, which focuses on the role that digital communication platforms can play in teaching and engaging with Wallace’s work.

]]> 0 bf3fc3ea11fc4b20fcc3b0be25aceee8 Martin Paul Eve deposited Textual Scholarship and Contemporary Literary Studies: Jennifer Egan’s Editorial Processes and the Archival Edition of Emerald City in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1676375/ Sun, 26 Jan 2020 16:27:47 -0500 Despite a strong pedigree of textual scholarship in literary studies, the study of contemporary literature often eschews such methods on the grounds that there is an insufficient archive to fully comprehend the production of just-published work. In this article I argue for a turn to textual scholarship in the field of contemporary literary studies…[Read more]

]]> 0 cbc67cdd251136edaca330613f4404f5 Travis M. Foster deposited Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States, Introduction in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1676323/ Sat, 25 Jan 2020 16:28:34 -0500 Introduction 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).

]]> 0 7f50478fdeb7ba48be6eeb229affe54a Martin Paul Eve deposited Information Labour and Shame in Farmer and Chevli’s Abortion Eve in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1675077/ Mon, 13 Jan 2020 03:48:44 -0500 This 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]

]]> 0 2c1950d3838b161082043490782ca8a3 Scott Challener deposited Latinx Literatures and Cultures in the U.S. and Beyond in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1674800/ Fri, 10 Jan 2020 03:49:25 -0500 This 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]

]]> 0 97fe8320cb773a7b1399b04a47f46b77 Scott Challener deposited The New Border in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1674617/ Thu, 09 Jan 2020 03:57:36 -0500 This 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]

]]> 0 80b441e26f724ee7ce2d5403618b0331 Lidiana de Moraes started the topic DEADLINE EXTENDED - CFP Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/deadline-extended-cfp-symposium-documenting-diversity-democracy-in-brazil/ Thu, 05 Dec 2019 20:36:53 -0500 DEADLINE EXTENDED

Submit papers to the Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil Symposium (University of Miami). Papers are accepted in Portuguese and English.

Updated CFP: https://mailchi.mp/miami.edu/documenting-diversity-and-democracy-in-brazil-call-for-papers-deadline-extension-2019?e=3190ff5fd9

For more information and questions,…[Read more]

]]> 0 16e529f4ef3884e7985c4523f31af9ed Kathryn S. Roberts deposited Writing “Other Spaces”: Katherine Anne Porter’s Yaddo in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1669765/ Sun, 10 Nov 2019 16:32:18 -0500 Drawing 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]

]]> 0 f8a19a3a90474f2261166b96a1cf7672 Kathryn S. Roberts deposited Our Town, the MacDowell Colony, and the Art of Civic Mediation in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1669764/ Sun, 10 Nov 2019 16:26:31 -0500 Thornton 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]

]]> 0 1428b502d813a92e95b07de2ca22a31b Joseph R. Millichap deposited Shadowy Autobiography: Robert Penn Warren and Other Makers of American Literature in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1667253/ Wed, 23 Oct 2019 16:25:31 -0400 My latest book publication, due from U of Tennessee P in 2020.

]]> 0 95e3ab79c49dd220d00932aa361c6daf Anne Donlon deposited Introduction to Four Poems from Langston Hughes’s Spanish Civil War Verse in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1666200/ Fri, 11 Oct 2019 16:26:01 -0400 Introduction to four poems written by Langston Hughes during the Spanish Civil War, published in the Little-Known Documents section of PMLA.

The introduction alongside the text of the four poems can be found on the PMLA’s site: https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2019.134.3.562.

]]> 0 74f0ffc433483e7df497d7b0cf99c7c6 Joydeep Chakraborty deposited "Violence Has Changed Me" Private Trauma and Identity Crisis in Post-9/11 American Poetry in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1664634/ Fri, 27 Sep 2019 03:54:25 -0400 This article seeks to explore into the impact of 9/11 tragedy on the private lives of ordinary people and individuals and into the associated theme of identity crisis, as reflected in four important post-9/11 poems – “Someone Says They Looked Like Cartwheeling Birds” by Lyn Lifshin, “Making Love After September 11, 2001” by Aliki Barnstone…[Read more]

]]> 0 9ce7609053f04b7e8e520c00c2880d89 Bradley J. Fest deposited Reading Now and Again: Hyperarchivalism and Democracy in Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller's Thinking Literature across Continents in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1662803/ Sat, 07 Sep 2019 03:53:31 -0400 This review essay approaches Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller’s Thinking Literature across Continents (2016) from a set of questions about what it means to read in the age of hyperarchival accumulation. Written against the background of events in the United States and elsewhere during the fall of 2017, the essay tracks and assesses Ghosh and…[Read more]

]]> 0 28a40b768a0097f934cd27d8a3ecb52a Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited ENGL 479P: BookLab in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1661519/ Tue, 27 Aug 2019 16:25:21 -0400 Syllabus for ENGL 479P: BookLab, an upper-division undergraduate course at the University of Maryland. Taught with the resources and facilities of the Department of English’s BookLab, the course is a historical, imaginative, and experiential introduction to the multitudinous forms of what is not the oldest but is surely among the most enduring of…[Read more]

]]> 0 6307caf501328555fbd65d0cd4f3cc54 Marina Guiomar deposited The Self-aggrandizement Disguised As Self-flagellation As Even Higher Art Form Aspect: Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1659904/ Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:26:17 -0400 I can’t seem to forget the anecdotic episode that one of my Literature Professors used to tell the class: a deconstructionist acquaintance of theirs was so absorbed in their literal undertaking that their meals consisted only of letter-noodles soup, so that even the most mundane of tasks could intertwine itself with textuality. Farfetched as this…[Read more]

]]> 0 261086d2d6c9df9cdedb2bcffb3fb1a1 Marina Guiomar deposited Where Do We Find Ourselves in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1659812/ Wed, 07 Aug 2019 03:52:18 -0400 “Where do we find ourselves?” are Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Experience” first words. The query is the author’s starting point for a number of philosophical considerations; it’s also the point of departure for our making sense of pain, through the reading of both Emerson’s essay and James Joyce’s Ulysses.
The essay hipothesises that Joyce’s “We walk…[Read more]

]]> 0 344f58f2e53a75d00fcad3d4fd0748e4 Travis M. Foster deposited Campus Novels and the Nation of Peers in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1659053/ Tue, 30 Jul 2019 16:43:05 -0400 This article covers an entire generation of American popular novels published between the Civil War and World War I: campus fictions, focusing all but exclusively on homosocial scenes of undergraduate merriment. Centering on the camaraderie of fraternal sociality, campus novels model friendship as a democratic ideal for dispensing with conflict,…[Read more]

]]> 0 7157b67a449c555126a3052d86ed1d81 Travis M. Foster deposited Campus Novels and the Nation of Peers in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1659048/ Tue, 30 Jul 2019 16:28:13 -0400 This article covers an entire generation of American popular novels published between the Civil War and World War I: campus fictions, focusing all but exclusively on homosocial scenes of undergraduate merriment. Centering on the camaraderie of fraternal sociality, campus novels model friendship as a democratic ideal for dispensing with conflict,…[Read more]

]]> 0 d34ceb7e0ada7ea9eff9582e31423200 Marisa Parham deposited 'Freedom, Equality, and Race’: Remembering Jeffrey B. Ferguson in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1657606/ Sun, 14 Jul 2019 16:32:06 -0400 This essay begins with my attempt to close-read a text by a recently departed colleague, Jeffrey B. Ferguson, but turns into an exploration of writing across registers, in this case the delivery of a very different version of the same paper by Ferguson, one that is far more intimate, insightful, and moving.

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