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LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American

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  • Consider David Foster Wallace: Critical Essays edited by David Hering

    Author(s):
    Bradley J. Fest, Bradley J. Fest (see profile)
    Date:
    2011
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American
    Subject(s):
    Wallace, David Foster
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    New Sincerity, David Hering, Wallace Studies

  • Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller

    Author(s):
    Bradley J. Fest, Bradley J. Fest (see profile)
    Date:
    2014
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, LLC 19th-Century American, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American, TM Literary Criticism
    Subject(s):
    Deconstruction, Miller, J. Hillis (Joseph Hillis), 1928-2021, Interviews, Criticism, interpretation, etc., Literary theory, Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963, Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    PRISM, Edward Snowden, 2013, Paul de Man, reading, digital

  • An Interview with Jonathan Arac

    Author(s):
    Bradley J. Fest, Bradley J. Fest (see profile)
    Date:
    2016
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, LLC 19th-Century American, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American, TM Literary Criticism
    Subject(s):
    Interviews, Criticism, interpretation, etc., Literary theory
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    novel

  • “Then Out of the Rubble”: The Apocalypse in David Foster Wallace’s Early Fiction

    Author(s):
    Bradley J. Fest, Bradley J. Fest (see profile)
    Date:
    2012
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American
    Subject(s):
    Wallace, David Foster, Postmodernism, Postmodernism (Literature), Fiction, Irony in literature, Apocalypse in literature
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Broom of the System, Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way

  • The Inverted Nuke in the Garden: Archival Emergence and Anti-Eschatology in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest

    Author(s):
    Bradley J. Fest, Bradley J. Fest (see profile)
    Date:
    2012
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, nuclear, eschaton, maximalist novel, meganovel, encyclopedic novel, postmoern

  • Homeland as a Site of Trauma in Selected Short Stories by Edwidge Danticat

    Author(s):
    Amel Abbady (see profile)
    Date:
    2022
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, CLCS Global Anglophone, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, TC History and Literature, TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
    Subject(s):
    Psychic trauma, Haitian Americans
    Item Type:
    Article

  • The Frantic Atlantic: Ocean Liners in the Interwar Imagination

    Author(s):
    Faye Hammill (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American
    Subject(s):
    Ocean liners, Books and reading, Transatlantic voyages
    Item Type:
    Article

  • James Agee, Frances Wickes, and The Morning Watch as Shadowy Autobiography

    Author(s):
    Joseph R. Millichap (see profile)
    Date:
    2022
    Group(s):
    LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC Southern United States, The Society for the Study of Southern Literature
    Subject(s):
    Agee, James, 1909-1955, Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961, Autobiography
    Item Type:
    Article

  • Afghanistan’s “Bacha Posh”: Gender-Crossing in Nadia Hashimi’s The Pearl That Broke Its Shell

    Author(s):
    Amel Abbady (see profile)
    Date:
    2022
    Group(s):
    CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic, TC Sexuality Studies, TC Women’s and Gender Studies
    Subject(s):
    Cross-dressing in literature, Cross-dressing--Psychological aspects, Cross-dressing--Religious aspects--Islam, Gender identity, Women authors, Afghan
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Nadia Hashimi, Bacha Posh, Aghan women, Cross-dressing, Gender-crossing, Gender reversal

  • "'You cannot assimilate Indian ghosts' : a magical realist reading of Louise Erdrich's The Night Watchman"

    Author(s):
    Amel Abbady (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    Historiography, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada, TC History and Literature, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    Indigenous peoples, Indians of North America, Magic realist fiction, Historical fiction
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Louise Erdrich, ghost, magical realism, boarding schools, Termination

  • Of Dr. Shelby Steele and Others

    Author(s):
    Aldon Lynn Nielsen (see profile)
    Date:
    1990
    Group(s):
    LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC African American Forum
    Subject(s):
    African Americans--Social life and customs, Culture--Study and teaching
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    affirmative action debates, African American cultural studies

  • Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe's Fiction

    Author(s):
    Patrick McEvoy-Halston (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    GS Speculative Fiction, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, On Wolfe, TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature, TM Literary Criticism
    Subject(s):
    American literature, Twentieth century, Horror, Psychoanalysis
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    gene wolfe, 20th-century American literature, Trauma

  • “The Dark Mirror of Our Lives”: Richard Wright, 12 Million Black Voices, and Auto/biography

    Author(s):
    Joseph R. Millichap (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC Southern United States, MS Visual Culture
    Subject(s):
    African Americans--Social life and customs, Culture--Study and teaching
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Richard Wright, African American cultural studies

  • Rehearing “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” in an Era of Global Decolonization: ASK YOUR MAMA’s Jazz Poetics

    Author(s):
    Scott Challener (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    2021 MLA Convention, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American
    Subject(s):
    American poetry, Twentieth century, Sound--Study and teaching, Decolonization, Jazz--Instruction and study
    Item Type:
    Conference paper
    Tag(s):
    Langston Hughes, Black poetry, diasporic poetry, 20th-century American poetry, Sound studies, Jazz studies, Black diaspora

  • The New Border (Spring 2021)

    Author(s):
    Scott Challener (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    GS Poetry and Poetics, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, Teaching Remotely, TM The Teaching of Literature
    Subject(s):
    Borderlands, American literature, Twenty-first century, Mexican literature
    Item Type:
    Syllabus
    Tag(s):
    Borderlands, U.S.-Mexico border, Empire, Border studies, Border theory, 21st-century American literature, 21st-century Latina/o literature, 21st-century Mexican literature

  • Contemporary Latinx Literatures & Cultures

    Author(s):
    Scott Challener (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, Teaching Remotely, TM The Teaching of Literature
    Subject(s):
    Culture--Study and teaching, United States, Hispanic Americans--Social life and customs, American literature, Twenty-first century
    Item Type:
    Syllabus
    Tag(s):
    American cultural studies, Latina/o cultural studies, 21st-century Latina/o literature, 21st-century American literature, Contemporary literature

  • ENG 296 - Science Fiction (Spring 2021)

    Author(s):
    Mark Sample (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    Digital Humanities, GS Speculative Fiction, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, TC Popular Culture
    Subject(s):
    Science fiction, Science fiction films
    Item Type:
    Syllabus

  • “Sapience” The (Attempted) Making of a Modern Myth: Storybuilding as a Component of Social Justice

    Author(s):
    Kate Pond (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC African American Forum, TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    Narration (Rhetoric)--Study and teaching, Racism, Mythology, Crowdsourcing, Social justice, Creative writing
    Item Type:
    Thesis
    Tag(s):
    ideation, Narrative studies, Narratology, Collaboration

  • Romantic American Ideals and Disruptive Perceptions: Human and Character Disconnections in Nabokov’s Lolita with Observations from Kubrick’s Film

    Author(s):
    Amin Nash (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, TM Literary Criticism, TM The Teaching of Literature
    Subject(s):
    Literature, English language, Motion pictures and literature, Postmodernism
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    Vladimir Nabokov, Stanley Kubrick, Lolita, Humbert Humbert, English, Literature and film, Modernism, Literary criticism

  • Ernest Hemingway, Global American Modernist

    Author(s):
    Lisa L. Tyler (see profile)
    Editor(s):
    Kenneth L. Seignurie
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American
    Subject(s):
    American literature, Literature, Modern, Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Modern American literature, Modernism, American modernism, Ernest Hemingway

  • Neoliberalism and it Impact on Post-9/11 American Poetry

    Author(s):
    Joydeep Chakraborty (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    American Literature, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, TM Literary and Cultural Theory, TM Literary Criticism, TM The Teaching of Literature
    Subject(s):
    Neoliberalism, 21st-century American literature, Imperialism
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Keywords: Capitalism, post-9/11 literature

  • Neoliberalism and it Impact on Post-9/11 American Poetry

    Author(s):
    Joydeep Chakraborty (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    American Literature, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, TM Literary and Cultural Theory, TM Literary Criticism, TM The Teaching of Literature
    Subject(s):
    Neoliberalism, 21st-century American literature, Imperialism
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Keywords: Capitalism, post-9/11 literature

  • Books.Files: Preservation of Digital Assets in the Contemporary Publishing Industry (A Report)

    Author(s):
    Kathi Berens, Alan Gakey, Lise Jaillant, Matthew Kirschenbaum (see profile) , Karla Nielsen, Brian O\'Leary
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    Digital Humanities, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, TC Digital Humanities, TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing
    Subject(s):
    Archives, Books, History, Publishers and publishing, Digital media, Bibliography
    Item Type:
    Report
    Tag(s):
    born-digital, Preservation, Book history, Publishing history, Textual studies

  • in our time: The 1924 Text

    Editor(s):
    James Gifford (see profile)
    Date:
    2015
    Group(s):
    American Literature, CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, Modernist Studies Association
    Subject(s):
    Literature, Modern, American literature, Literature, Twentieth century
    Item Type:
    Book
    Tag(s):
    Modernist fiction, American fiction, Modernism, Modernist literature, American modernism, Anglo-American modernism, 20th-century literature

  • Digital Wallace: Networked Pedagogies and Distributed Reading

    Author(s):
    Kathleen Fitzpatrick (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    Digital Humanists, Digital Humanities, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, TC Digital Humanities
    Subject(s):
    Wallace, David Foster, Digital communications
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    David Foster Wallace, Digital communication, Digital pedagogy

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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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