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LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American

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  • 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

  • Medicines of the Soul: Reparative Reading and the History of Bibliotherapy

    Author(s):
    jesse_miller (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American, Reception Study Society, TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies
    Subject(s):
    American literature, Emerson, history of psychiatry, History of reading, Medical humanities
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Bibliotherapy, Reparative Reading, Rhetorical hermeneutics, Samuel McChord Crothers, Therapeutic Culture

  • Obsolescence and Innovation in the Age of the Digital

    Author(s):
    Kathleen Fitzpatrick (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    Digital Humanists, Digital Humanities, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, MS Screen Arts and Culture, TC Digital Humanities
    Subject(s):
    Digital humanities, Digital media, Innovation
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    obsolescence

  • Geologies of Finitude: The Deep Time of Twenty-First-Century Catastrophe in Don DeLillo’s Point Omegaand Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia

    Author(s):
    Bradley J. Fest, Bradley J. Fest (see profile)
    Date:
    2016
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American
    Subject(s):
    Anthropocene, Don DeLillo
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Cyclonopedia, deep time, Point Omega, geology, Reza Negarestani

  • Vernacular Soliloquy, Theatrical Gesture, and Embodied Consciousness in The Marrow of Tradition

    Author(s):
    Nicholas Rinehart (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    GS Prose Fiction, LLC 19th-Century American, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC African American, LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American
    Subject(s):
    African American literature, Performance studies, Novel (genre), Narrative, African American culture, African American
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Nineteenth-Century African American Literature, American novel, Theory of Narrative

  • New Rhetorical Continuum Chart for Fiction

    Author(s):
    Gloria Lee McMillan (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    Economics & Literature, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, TM Literary Criticism, Urban Cultural Studies
    Subject(s):
    Post-modern fiction, Modernism, Sociology of literature, 20th-century poetry, Literature and community, Aesthetic theory
    Item Type:
    Chart
    Tag(s):
    midwest, rust belt, social change, American fiction

  • The Stars our Destination

    Author(s):
    Gloria Lee McMillan (see profile)
    Date:
    2016
    Group(s):
    LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German, Rust Belt Literature, TM The Teaching of Literature, Urban Cultural Studies
    Subject(s):
    American cultural studies, Fiction writing, German Jewish history, Urban history, Social identity, Fiction, Urbanism
    Item Type:
    Fictional work
    Tag(s):
    social class

  • POEM: Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg

    Author(s):
    Gloria Lee McMillan (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, Radical Caucus, TC History and Literature, TM Literary and Cultural Theory, TM Literary Criticism
    Subject(s):
    American regionalism, City in literature, Contemporary poetry, Poetry writing, Rust belt literature, Social anthropology, Sociology, Urban creativity
    Item Type:
    Poetry
    Tag(s):
    the sublime, urban

  • Isherwood’s Impersonality: Ascetic Self-Divestiture and Queer Relationality in A Single Man

    Author(s):
    Octavio Gonzalez (see profile)
    Date:
    2014
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, GS Prose Fiction, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone, TC Sexuality Studies
    Subject(s):
    Anglo-American modernism, Queer history, Gay and lesbian literature, 20th-century American literature, 20th-century British literature, Modernism
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    christopher isherwood, Gay Writings, memoir, Sexuality in literature

  • Afghanistan in Post-9/11 American Poetry: A Creative Response to Orientalism

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

  • ‘While the triangle-roofed Farmer's Grain Elevator / sat quietly by the side of the road’: Site and Simultaneity in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Wichita Vortex Sutra’

    Author(s):
    Zane Koss (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, GS Poetry and Poetics, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American
    Subject(s):
    Poetry, Cold War, Space and place, Post-WWII American literature, Temporality
    Item Type:
    Conference paper
    Tag(s):
    Allen Ginsberg, anti-war, Vietnam War, Occult

  • Impossible Futures: Fictions of Risk in the Longue Durée

    Author(s):
    Jessica Hurley (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada, TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
    Subject(s):
    Apocalypticism, Sociology of risk, Native American/First Nations, Ecocriticism, Anthropocene
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Nuclear, waste, realism, Deep time, Leslie Marmon Silko

  • The Pedagogical Poetics of Testimony: How

    Author(s):
    Molly Appel (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    2018 MLA Convention, Feminist Humanities, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American, TM The Teaching of Literature
    Subject(s):
    Feminist pedagogy, Social justice, Hemispheric American literature, Testimonial literature, Argentine literature
    Item Type:
    Conference paper
    Tag(s):
    feminist pedagogy, 20th Century Literature, pedagogy, Latin American Studies, reading

  • Feeling Her Way: Audre Lorde and the Power of Touch

    Author(s):
    Sarah E. Chinn (see profile)
    Date:
    2003
    Group(s):
    Feminist Humanities, Gender Studies, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC African American, TC Disability Studies, TC Sexuality Studies
    Subject(s):
    Disability, Gay and lesbian literature, Sexuality, Sight and blindness
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Blindness, lesbian sexuality, lorde

  • Toward the World Novel: Genre Shifts in Twenty-First-Century Expatriate Fiction

    Author(s):
    Caren Irr (see profile)
    Date:
    2011
    Group(s):
    American Literature, Ecocriticism, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities, TC Science and Literature
    Subject(s):
    21st century, American literature
    Item Type:
    Article

  • Migratory Dialectics and Border Semiosis in Ana Castillo’s Chicana Novel So Far from God

    Author(s):
    Judy Bertonazzi (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC Chicana and Chicano, LSL Linguistics and Literature, Postcolonial Literature, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    Aesthetics, American literature, Epistemology, Poetics, Semiotics
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    discourse analysis, embodiment, geography, languages, migration

  • Caridad’s Choice for Transformation: Jumping off a Mesa Cliff in Ana Castillo's Novel So Far from God

    Author(s):
    Judy Bertonazzi (see profile)
    Date:
    2009
    Group(s):
    LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC Chicana and Chicano, TC Women’s and Gender Studies
    Subject(s):
    Aesthetics, Cultural geography, Feminist theory, Latinx
    Item Type:
    Conference paper

  • Fleur Pillager, Midewewinini: Food as the Source of Female Power in Louise Erdrich’s Novel Tracks

    Author(s):
    Judy Bertonazzi (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada, TC Postcolonial Studies, TM Literary Criticism
    Subject(s):
    Aesthetics, Food, Native American literatures, Philosophy
    Item Type:
    Conference paper
    Tag(s):
    food, gender, identity, indigeneity

  • The Critical and the Creative: A Feminist Praxis for Borderland Narratives of the U.S./North America(s)

    Author(s):
    Judy Bertonazzi (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC African American, LLC Chicana and Chicano, LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    Aesthetics, American literature, Comparative literature, Feminist theory, Postcolonialism
    Item Type:
    Conference paper
    Tag(s):
    Border studies, critical theory, epistemology, geography, hermeneutics

  • The Subaltern and Familial Ghosts: Impossible Representations in The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Beloved

    Author(s):
    Judy Bertonazzi (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC African American, LLC Chicana and Chicano, LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    Aesthetics, American literature, Comparative literature, Feminist theory, Poetics
    Item Type:
    Conference paper
    Tag(s):
    decolonial theory, embodiment, epistemology, Postcolonialism, representations

  • Close Reading with Computers: Genre Signals, Parts of Speech, and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas

    Author(s):
    Martin Paul Eve (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, TC Digital Humanities
    Subject(s):
    21st century, British literature
    Item Type:
    Article

  • Pornography in the Library

    Author(s):
    David Squires (see profile)
    Date:
    2014
    Group(s):
    LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, TC Sexuality Studies, TM Libraries and Research
    Subject(s):
    20th century, Academic librarianship, American studies, Collecting, Popular culture studies
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    pornography

  • From Sensuous to Sexy: The Librarian in Post-Censorship Print Pornography

    Author(s):
    David Squires (see profile)
    Date:
    2014
    Group(s):
    LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, TC Sexuality Studies, TM Literary Criticism
    Subject(s):
    20th century, Academic librarianship, American studies, Public libraries
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    pornography, pulp

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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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