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LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American

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  • The Self-aggrandizement Disguised As Self-flagellation As Even Higher Art Form Aspect: Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

    Author(s):
    Marina Guiomar (see profile)
    Date:
    2014
    Group(s):
    American Literature, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American
    Subject(s):
    Dave Eggers, Jacques Derrida, Wordsworth, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Autobiography, Biography, Romanticism, 21st-century literature
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    epitaph

  • Where Do We Find Ourselves

    Author(s):
    Marina Guiomar (see profile)
    Date:
    2012
    Group(s):
    American Literature, American Transcendentalism, LLC 19th-Century American, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American
    Subject(s):
    Emerson, James Joyce, Stanley Cavell, Linguistics and literature, American cultural studies, Irish literature
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    Cavel, Thoreau

  • Campus Novels and the Nation of Peers

    Author(s):
    Travis M. Foster (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    LLC 19th-Century American, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
    Subject(s):
    American Civil War, Race critical theory, Friendship, Higher education
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    White Nationalism, White Supremacy, Antiblackness, campus life, campus novels

  • Campus Novels and the Nation of Peers

    Author(s):
    Travis M. Foster (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    LLC 19th-Century American, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
    Subject(s):
    American Civil War, Race critical theory, Friendship, Higher education
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    White Nationalism, White Supremacy, Antiblackness, campus life, campus novels

  • 'Freedom, Equality, and Race’: Remembering Jeffrey B. Ferguson

    Author(s):
    Marisa Parham (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC African American
    Subject(s):
    Black studies
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    Sonia Sanchez, James Baldwin, self-fashioning

  • Breadfruit, Time and Again: Glissant Reads Faulkner in the World Relation

    Author(s):
    Marisa Parham (see profile)
    Date:
    2015
    Group(s):
    CLCS Caribbean, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC African American
    Subject(s):
    Travel narratives, William Faulkner, Slavery, Transnational Americas, Poetics
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Albert Murray, Hortense Spillers, diaspora, breadfruit

  • "A Death Like the Rebel Angels": Cather and Faulkner Expose the Myth of Aerial Chivalry in One of Ours and Soldiers' Pay

    Author(s):
    Kimberly K. Dougherty (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, War Studies
    Subject(s):
    20th-century American literature, World War I literature, Faulkner
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    WIlla Cather

  • 'You Can't Flow Over This': Ursula Rucker's Acoustic Illusion

    Author(s):
    Marisa Parham (see profile)
    Date:
    2007
    Group(s):
    LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC African American, TC Popular Culture
    Subject(s):
    Hip Hop, Hip-hop studies, African American poetry, Beat literature, Black popular culture
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    The Roots, Bob Kaufman, Foxy Brown, Rape Culture, Blaxsploitation

  • American Literature in the World: An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler

    Editor(s):
    Jordan Brower, Wai Chee Dimock, Kyle Hutzler, Nicholas Rinehart (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    CLCS Global Anglophone, LLC 19th-Century American, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC Early American, LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American
    Subject(s):
    American literature, World literature, Global anglophone literature, American literary history, Anthology studies, American culture, Pedagogy
    Item Type:
    Image
    Tag(s):
    anthologies

  • Richard Wright's Globalism

    Author(s):
    Nicholas Rinehart (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    CLCS Global Anglophone, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC African American, TC Postcolonial Studies, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
    Subject(s):
    African American literature, Postcolonialism, World literature, African diaspora literature, Race/ethnicity, 20th-century literature
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Black Atlantic, American novel

  • Antinomian Remedies: Rehabilitative Futurism, Towards a Better Life , and Kenneth Burke's Modernist Equipment for Living

    Author(s):
    jesse_miller (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, TC Disability Studies, TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies, TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature, Theory and Modernism
    Subject(s):
    Modernism, American modernism, Disability studies, American literature, Kenneth Burke
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Djuna Barnes, Towards a Better Life, Counter-Statement, Nightwood, rehabilitative futurism

  • Soothing Satire

    Author(s):
    Patrick McEvoy-Halston (see profile)
    Date:
    2006
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC Canadian
    Subject(s):
    20th-century American literature, Canadian literature, Generation X
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    douglas coupland

  • Moderns and their Mothers' Reach

    Author(s):
    Patrick McEvoy-Halston (see profile)
    Date:
    2006
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, TC Cognitive and Affect Studies, TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
    Subject(s):
    20th-century American literature, Psychological literary criticism, Drama, Dramaturgy, Affect
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    tennessee williams, arthur miller, cat on a hot tin roof, death of a saleman, lloyd demause

  • Grabbing Hold for Departure's Sake

    Author(s):
    Patrick McEvoy-Halston (see profile)
    Date:
    2006
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
    Subject(s):
    20th-century American literature, Psychological literary criticism
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    andrea barrett, servants of the map, winnicott, object relations

  • Matricide in the City

    Author(s):
    Patrick McEvoy-Halston (see profile)
    Date:
    2006
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, TC Cognitive and Affect Studies, TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities, TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
    Subject(s):
    20th-century African American literature, 20th-century American literature, Psychoanalytic criticism
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    ralph ellison, the invsiible man

  • Consolidating Gains

    Author(s):
    Patrick McEvoy-Halston (see profile)
    Date:
    2005
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
    Subject(s):
    20th-century American poetry, Psychological literary criticism
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    stanley kunitz

  • The Visible Invisible Man

    Author(s):
    Patrick McEvoy-Halston (see profile)
    Date:
    2005
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, TC Cognitive and Affect Studies, TC Postcolonial Studies, TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
    Subject(s):
    20th-century American literature, Psychoanalysis
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    Ralph Waldo Ellison, the invisible man

  • The Devil Made Me Enjoy It

    Author(s):
    Patrick McEvoy-Halston (see profile)
    Date:
    2005
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, TC Cognitive and Affect Studies, TC Popular Culture, TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
    Subject(s):
    20th-century American literature, American westerns
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

  • Draining the Amazon's Swamp

    Author(s):
    Patrick McEvoy-Halston (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    2019 MLA Convention, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature, TC Women’s and Gender Studies
    Subject(s):
    American literature, American literature after 1800, English literature, Psychoanalytic criticism
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    graduate studies, undergraduate education

  • ENGL 759C BookLab: How to Do Things with Books

    Author(s):
    Matthew Kirschenbaum (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    Digital Humanities, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing
    Subject(s):
    Book culture, Book history, Printing, Print culture, Bibliography, Critical making, Media archaeology, Textual studies, 21st-century literature
    Item Type:
    Syllabus
    Tag(s):
    letterpress printing

  • Theorizing and Resisting the Violence of Stop-and-Frisk-style Profiling

    Author(s):
    Jesse A. Goldberg (see profile)
    Date:
    2015
    Group(s):
    GS Drama and Performance, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, TC Law and the Humanities, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
    Subject(s):
    Policing, Violence, Critical race and ethnic studies, Performance studies, American studies
    Item Type:
    Article

  • Slavery’s Ghosts and the Haunted Housing Crisis: On Narrative Economy and Circum-Atlantic Memory in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy

    Author(s):
    Jesse A. Goldberg (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    GS Prose Fiction, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC African American, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies, TC Women’s and Gender Studies
    Subject(s):
    African American literature, Contemporary fiction, Literature and economics, Slavery, American studies
    Item Type:
    Article

  • Landscape and Masculinity in Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms

    Author(s):
    Victoria Addis (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    American Literature, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, Masculinities in Literature
    Subject(s):
    Ernest Hemingway, Masculinity, Ecocriticism, Literary landscapes, Literature and environment, Landscape, Pastoral
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    male gaze, a farewell to arms, First World War

  • "Don't Write About September 11th": Meta-poetic Elements in Post-9/11 American Poetry

    Author(s):
    Joydeep Chakraborty (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    American Literature, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American
    Subject(s):
    21st-century American literature, Aesthetics
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    post-9/11 literature

  • "Modernist Jane: Austen's Reception by Writers of the Twenties and Thirties"

    Author(s):
    Lisa L. Tyler (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Jane Austen Studies, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone
    Subject(s):
    20th-century British literature, Modernist literature, American modernism, Jane Austen and Janeites, Jane Austen
    Item Type:
    Article

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About this group

LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American forum executive committee:

Paula M. L. Moya, Jan. 2016
Mark Goble, Jan. 2017 (2015–Jan. 2016 Ch.)
Amy Hungerford, Jan. 2018 (2015–Jan. 2016 Sec.)
Heather Houser, Jan. 2019
Joseph Jeon, Jan. 2020

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