We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group.
This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust Belt, defined here as industrial communities in the United States. Those ho have been affected by the rust belt go beyond simply those who have grown up these. In a class-based society, people who have never lived anywhere near the rust belt may hold media-inspired attitudes about the Rust Belt and those who live there. We offer fresh exposure those not from the Rust belt, fresh air and news to those from the Rust Belt.
We may overlap at times with eco-literature, ethnic and race studies, labor fiction, and regional literature.
Welcome home!
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Text for Discusssion: Robert Beuka’s Suburbunation in the discussion
Rust Belt Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months agoDear Readers of MLA Rust Belt Literature,
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Suburbination by Robert Beuka maps changes in society wrought by spatial shifts, internalized ideologies of space and place.
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BACKDROP The MC rhetorical orientation of United States university English Departments is so naturalized because class is never a lens to use. We…[Read more] -
Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Text for Discusssion: Robert Beuka’s Suburbunation in the discussion
Rust Belt Literature on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months agoDear Readers of MLA Rust Belt Literature,
Suburbination by Robert Beuka maps changes in society wrought by spatial shifts, internalized ideologies of space and place.
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BACKDROP The MC rhetorical orientation of United States university English Departments is so naturalized because class is never a lens to use. We can infer…[Read more] -
Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Labor day and Swiftian satire Sep. 7, 2020 in the discussion
Rust Belt Literature on MLA Commons 3 years agoQUOTED from “Rust Belt Literature” Project at ResearchGate. My script for All the Old Familiar Places can be had by writing to:
gmcmilla@email.arizona.eduDear 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 Old,…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Lupe’s Story: Lupe Gallardo Marshall @ the Memorial Day Massacre (Republic Steel) 1937 in the group
Rust Belt Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoPages from a local East Chicago, IN, publication commemorating the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre at South Chicago’s Republic Steel. Lupe Gallardo Marshall (Mexican immigrant social worker at Hull House) gave this testimony to the La Follette Committee of Congress investigating the events of that day, May 30, 1937.
I am thinking about writing a…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited A Clockwork Student in the group
Rust Belt Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoThis is another tale of life in the famed Rust Belt and how denizens of the “Belt” fare when they attempt to enter the world beyond its boundaries to the university. this is more autobiographical than most so should probably be called “creative non-fiction?”
How can a student escape from the confines of an industrial home town or neighboring town…[Read more] -
Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic CFP Routledge Literary Handbook (Lit. and Class) in the discussion
Rust Belt Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoWe are creating an invited proposal based upon my performance as a reviewer of another text.
Essays are to be about 8,000 words each.I have a model and this text will be an scholarly companion to literature using the tools of rhetorical or
cultural studies analysis (possibly other types of analysis). The Companion to Victorian Literature
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Is The Music Man's "Gary, Indiana" song shockingly misplaced satire? in the discussion
Rust Belt Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoAnyone who has passed through Gary, Indiana, in the last thirty years and watched its tragically slow motion decline can only wonder when a Southwestern US theatre company mounts a new production of Meredith Wilson’s 1957 Broadway Musical The Music Man which includes the song “Gary, Indiana”–the purported home of Harold Hill, a con man. This…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Dirt and Trash in Romeo and Juliet (Social Stratification) in the group
Rust Belt Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month ago‘Dirt’ and ‘Trash’ in Shakespeare’s _Romeo and Juliet_:
Update on the rhetoric of social stratification in R&J…Gloria McMillan June 21, 2018
Shakespeare in early modern period of English culture demonstrates how modern exogamy (voluntarily marrying outside your group) rattles the social stratification structure in modern western societi…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Race in Chicago Story: Farrell "The Fastest Runner on 61st Street" in the discussion
Rust Belt Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoRESEARCHGATE:
Update on Rust Belt Lit. Projects for July 19, 2018James T. Farrell’s (d. 1979) 1950 short story “The Fastest Runner on 61<sup>st</sup> Street, A Story” is set during the Chicago Race Riots of 1919.
LINK: https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-fastest-runner-on-sixty-first-streeta-story/
I had this s…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic New Essay: The Rust Belt is Mythical, too! in the discussion
Rust Belt Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe Rust Belt is Mythical, too! is a rhetorical analysis of the media-generated rhetorical trope “The Rust Belt.” Why are few if any writers of fiction being published who deal with this large region? What is the effect of being called “The Rust Belt” upon creativity and cognitive development and/or writing anxiety?
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic CFP: Rust Belt Literature panel for 3-6 Jan. 2019 MLA Conv. in Chicago in the discussion
Rust Belt Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoDear Colleagues,
(1) We hope to have the first Rust Belt Literature panel ever at the MLA at the next national convention in Chicago. We are INTERDISCIPLINARY: For instance Lit. and Sociology, Lit and race, Radical Causus, teaching of Lit., Creative Writing (!), Urban lit. 20th and 21st C. Lit., Lit. in Lang. other than English, Lit. and…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited The Stars our Destination in the group
Rust Belt Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThe Stars our Destination is a story of overcoming anxieties and biases from war, as well as other growing up issues in a steel mill town. Over time, the three main characters gradually converge. Two women have nightmares involving the past and the old Prof. Daniel Blei lives off and on in a flood of troubling recollections. The conclusion will…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited BOOK REVIEW: Media coverage of Organized Labor in the group
Rust Belt Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThe idea that the US media is biased against organized labor may seem too obvious to require comment and research, but the details are quite important to understanding to to communicate more effectively between voices of the labor community and voices of management. The common assumption that labor media coverage became more skewed with the…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan posted an update in the group
Rust Belt Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoCFP: panel on Rust Belt Lit. at Chicago 2019 MLA Convention
Contact Gloria McMillan here or at glomc@dakoatcom.net with ideas and abstracts.
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There has never before been a Rust Belt Discussion Group at the MLA, Not all of the midwest is de-industrialized. Arcelor-Mittal Steel is producing as much steel in East Chicago as in peak years, but now is owned by an Indian firm.
This call for participation reaches a number of groups and why your group. Using just my background in Chicago…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Resource on William T,. Stead human rights / Labor advocate (UK- Chicago 1893) in the group
Rust Belt Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoA figure who should be back in our minds these days, British journalist/reformer William T. Stead came to cover the 1893 Chicago world’s fair and wrote If Christ came to Chicago about the “philistines” running the corrupt exploitation of the poor in the town. Some pillars of Chicago society pages and front pews in posh churches paid the tax on…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic How to start–the short story in the discussion
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<div class=”topic-post-text”>What method work best for you to start a short story? I have just had some productive use of the famed US writer Ray Bradbury’s…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic 75 years old today: How Green was my Valley (Welsh Coal Mining Valley) in the discussion
Rust Belt Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoSEE; Essay listed under “FILES” at left.
Citizen Kane and How Green was my Valley turn 75 in a Time of Demagogues.
-Gloria McMillan
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Gloria Lee McMillan uploaded the file: Citizen Kane and How Green was my Valley trun 75 in a time of Demagogues to
Rust Belt Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis essay challenges the dominant discourse on two highly controversial 1941 films Citizen Kane and How Green was my Valley.
Film critics tend to be outraged and marvel today how this miscarriage of aesthetic justice ever could have happened. Why, they cry, did How Green was my Valley ever get chosen as 1942’s Best Picture of the Year over O…[Read more] -
Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic 75 years old today: How Green was my Valley (Welsh Coal Mining Valley) in the discussion
Rust Belt Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoHOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY released Oct. 28, 1941.
Today is the 75th anniversary of this controversial (and prophetic) film that won Best Picture Oscar 1942 over Orson
Welles’ Citizen Kane.HGWMV shows the industrial growth and de-industrialization of a Welsh coal mining town long before people thought
of these problems.I have written an essay…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Writing in a Wind Machine: Do Politicians Obsess over Steel workers? in the discussion
Rust Belt Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoThere is an article in the New York Times concerning the amount of attention that steel workers are getting. The gist of the essay itself is that far too much attention is being paid to manufacturing and steel worker sin particular by politicians.
The cure is to become something else, get a new job, and leave all the baggage behind. How do we f…[Read more]
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