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CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century

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  • Profile picture of Lisa Nalbone

    Lisa Nalbone posted an update in the group Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 1 week, 4 days ago

    Announcing the “1st Biannual Conference of the Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate” Jan. 28-30, 2021. For more information, please visit: https://www.ut.edu/academics/college-of-arts-and-letters/center-for-jos%C3%A9-mart%C3%AD-studies-affiliate/1st-biannual-conference-registration

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    Li Guo started the topic Invitation to LLC Ming Qing Chinese Social Event, Session 11077 in the discussion Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 weeks, 1 day ago

    Invitation to MLA 2021 LLC Ming and Qing Chinese Social EventSession 11077: January 7th, TR, 8:45pm-10:00pm EST

    Event in the program: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2021/meetingapp.cgi/Session/11077

    Dear colleagues attending the upcoming MLA,

    Please join us for lively conversations and networking with colleagues at MLA.

    Forum members:…[Read more]

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    Weihsin Gui started the topic Southeast Asia & Southeast Asia diasporic sessions MLA 2021 in the discussion Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 1 month, 3 weeks ago

    FYI: based on a search of the MLA 2021 online program, here’s a list of the sessions/panels that have content related to Southeast Asia & its diasporas. All dates & times are US Eastern Time (New York).

    * Asian American Literature and Empire and Imperialism
    Thursday, 7 January 2021
    7:15 AM – 8:30 A…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Brian Gregory Caraher

    Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Sourcing “a place of first permission”: Robert Duncan’s ‘mythological mind’ and H.D.’s “Trilogy” in the group Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 1 month, 4 weeks ago

    This article is a slightly revised version of a plenary panel address presented at the ‘Passages’ Symposium at the Sorbonne, Paris on the 12th of June 2019, in honor of the centenary of the birth of the American poet Robert Duncan. The article traces some of the mutual interest and influence between the poets Robert Duncan and Hilda Doolittle…[Read more]

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    Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Turning Point ’68: From Tet to Chicago, Paris to D.C., Hesiod to “Works & Days” in the group Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 months, 1 week ago

    This commemorative and retrospective memoir examines events fifty years ago in the interests of tracking and placing the editorial ideals and dynamics of the journal “Works & Days”, founded in 1978 and published through 2019. The author was one of the original co-founders of the journal, as well as a contributor and member of the editorial board…[Read more]

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    Brian Gregory Caraher deposited ‘Balancing Fire, Dreams and the Signatures of All Things’: Sinead Morrissey’s Poetry and Poetics in the group Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 months, 1 week ago

    This article is a sustained profile and study of prominent Northern Irish poet Sinead Morrissey’s complete run of work from the 1990s through 2018. The article examines closely the developing course of her poetry as well as the developing itinerary of her poetics, especially in the light of her transatlantic poetics as well as local and…[Read more]

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    Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Labor day and Swiftian sature Sep. 7, 2020 in the discussion Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago

    QUOTED from “Rust Belt Literature” Project at ResearchGate. My script for All the Old Familiar Places can be had by writing to:
    gmcmilla@email.arizona.edu

    Dear Colleagues,

    I studied Jonathan Swift and the Augustan writer (Alexander Pope, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson) at Indiana Univ. NW Campus Gary, Indiana. My Swiftian satire, All the…[Read more]

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    Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Waiting for the arrivant: Godot in two poems by Nizār Qabbānī in the group Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 months, 2 weeks ago

    The theme of waiting permeates two poems by the late Syrian poet Nizār Qabbānī. The verse in both poems ‘Waiting for Godot’, and ‘A television interview with an Arab Godot’, describes an arduous wait, at once distressing and unpredictable. In the first poem, the poet urges Godot to arrive, as the savior who will appear in the form of the Messia…[Read more]

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    Christopher Hill deposited Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form in the group Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 months ago

    Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form overturns Eurocentric genealogies and globalizing generalizations about “world literature” by examining the complex, contradictory history of naturalist fiction. Christopher Laing Hill traces the history of naturalist fiction from its emergence in France in the 1860s through its spr…[Read more]

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    Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Probing the limits of Crocean historicism in the group Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 months, 1 week ago

    This article reconsiders the post-war reaction against Benedetto Croce, focusing on the critical reappraisal of Crocean historicism that followed the defeat of Italian Fascism. Motivated by a growing sense of historical uncertainty, Italians increasingly dissented from Croce, but they remained more wedded to Crocean thought – and in particular t…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Jessie M. Labov

    Jessie M. Labov started the topic MLA 2021 Collaborative Session: Academic Autonomy in Illiberal Times in the discussion Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 months, 3 weeks ago

    We are looking for one more panelist in this session being proposed for next year’s MLA. It would be a collaboration between the Hungarian and Slavic/EE fora. Titls/short abstracts to Jessie Labov (jlabov@ceu.edu) by April 5th.

    Academic Autonomy in Illiberal Times: Although the right to academic freedom faces challenges all over the world, the…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Vanessa Valdés

    Vanessa Valdés started the topic CFP: Deportation and Affect: Mapping the Hemispheric Americas (MLA 2021 Toronto in the discussion Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 months ago

    This panel explores a variety of methodological and disciplinary approaches to the topic of mass deportations and immigrant justice from the perspective of the humanities. Please submit 300-word abstracts and short presenter’s biographies to Laura Torres-Rodriguez, New York U (ljt233@nyu.edu ) Deadline for submissions: Thursday, 2 April 2020. (C…[Read more]

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    Vanessa Valdés started the topic CFP: Survival Strategies in the Americas (MLA 2021 Toronto) in the discussion Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 months ago

    What can we learn from indigenous and Black strategies for survival in the Americas, as we face the enduring legacies of capitalist settler colonialism?  Please send a 200-word abstract and a brief biographical statement to Vanessa K. Valdés (vvaldes@ccny.cuny.edu) Please share broadly. Deadline for submissions: Friday, 3 April 2020

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    Vanessa Valdés started the topic Standing for Election of Executive Committee of CLCS Hemispheric American in the discussion Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 10 months ago

    We invite you to stand for election to our Executive Committee — come guide our group in upcoming years! Note that you are only allowed to serve on one executive committee at a time. If you are interested, please email Vanessa K. Valdés (vvaldes@ccny.cuny.edu) as soon as possible. Thank you!

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    James Gifford deposited in our time: The 1924 Text in the group Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 11 months ago

    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]

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    James Gifford deposited “In Our Time” and “They All Made Peace—What Is Peace?”: The 1923 Text in the group Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 11 months ago

    This critical edition of the 1923 state of Hemingway’s In Our Time is the first 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” in The Little Review, which have been largely unavailable for scholars and entirely out of reach for…[Read more]

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    Julia Elsky started the topic CFP – Romanian Forum panel on Eugene Ionesco in the discussion Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 11 months, 3 weeks ago

    The Romanian Forum of the MLA invites proposals for presentations on its guaranteed panel at the 2021 Convention of the Modern Language Association (Toronto, January 7-10, 2021):

    Eugène Ionesco’s Theater of Language

    The year 2021 will mark the seventieth anniversary of the first performance of Eugène Ionesco’s classic work of the Theater of th…[Read more]

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    Ben Streeter deposited Reparation in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz and Patrick Modiano’s Dora Bruder in the group Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 12 months ago

    W. G. Sebald and Patrick Modiano are two contemporary authors who share similar themes and literary practices. They are both fastidiously or even obsessively historical in their narrative development. And they seem preoccupied with the sins of World War II. Critics have divided feelings about their accomplishments. Skeptics say their trauma…[Read more]

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    Benjamin Mangrum started the topic MLA 2021 Panel for CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century forum in the discussion Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 1 year ago

    The CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century forum is sponsoring a panel on “Comparative Environmentalisms” at the MLA 2021 conference in Toronto. CFP is below:

    Comparative Environmentalisms 

    This panel explores environmentalisms across linguistic, indigenous, and national frameworks. Challenges to the idea of “environmentalism” are welcome. Abstracts of 2…[Read more]

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    Julie Phillips Brown deposited Reading as Ritual Response: The Artist’s Books of Cecilia Vicuña [remarks] in the group Group logo of CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyCLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 1 year ago

    Since the 1960s, Chilean poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña has developed an internationally-recognized body of hybrid works that draw on poetry, painting, sculpture, installation, dance, song, and film. “Reading as Ritual Response” considers one of Vicuña’s lesser-known categories of work, the artist’s book, through which she harnesses the visual, m…[Read more]

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