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LLC Southern United States

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  • Profile picture of Delia Steverson

    Delia Steverson uploaded the file: Mab Segrest–The Disabling Political Economy of the Georgia Asylum to Group logo of LLC Southern United StatesLLC Southern United States on MLA Commons 1 month ago

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    Delia Steverson uploaded the file: Regis Fox –Mad Southern Mothers: ‘Playing Crazy’ in Twentieth-Century Black Women’s Literature to Group logo of LLC Southern United StatesLLC Southern United States on MLA Commons 1 month ago

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    Delia Steverson uploaded the file: Stephen Knadler–Frances Harper and the Figuration of Fugitive Chronic Disability to Group logo of LLC Southern United StatesLLC Southern United States on MLA Commons 1 month ago

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    Joseph R. Millichap deposited James Agee, Frances Wickes, and The Morning Watch as Shadowy Autobiography in the group Group logo of LLC Southern United StatesLLC Southern United States on MLA Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago

    James Agee’s complicated life and complex work have elicited varied critical responses, but none thus far by way of the writer’s intriguing relationship with his sometime analyst Frances Wickes. I believe Agee’s autobiographical writings prove both intertextual with and influenced by Wickes’s work, especially in regard to her novel and to The Mor…[Read more]

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    Frank Cha started the topic MLA 2023 CFP: Southern Labor in the discussion Group logo of LLC Southern United StatesLLC Southern United States on MLA Commons 11 months, 1 week ago

    This panel seeks to explore the concept of work in the United States South and beyond. How does the region honor, resist, and reimagine labor practices? In what ways do the histories of slavery and exploitation of immigrant laborers complicate the notion of southern ingenuity and progress? How do these histories give rise to subtle and profound…[Read more]

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    Delia Steverson started the topic MLA 2023 CFP Disability and Public Health in the U.S. South in the discussion Group logo of LLC Southern United StatesLLC Southern United States on MLA Commons 11 months, 1 week ago

    Disability and Public Health in the U.S. South 

    A key part of colonizing in the U.S. South depended on the rhetoric of health, such as Ponce de Leon’s mythical fountain of youth and nineteenth-century boosterism claiming Florida as the “winter sanitarium of the country” (qtd in Knight 5). The semi-tropical warmth of the South invited justif…[Read more]

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    Delia Steverson started the topic MLA 2023 CFP Passages of Water and Labor Cultures of the Coastal South in the discussion Group logo of LLC Southern United StatesLLC Southern United States on MLA Commons 11 months, 1 week ago

    Passages of Water and Labor Cultures of the Coastal South and the Caribbean

    In Edwidge Danticat’s short story “Without Inspection,” an undocumented Haitian immigrant, Arnold, dies from unsafe working conditions at a construction site in south Florida. In the news coverage about the event, the construction company and developer release a state…[Read more]

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    Delia Steverson started the topic MLA 2023 CFP Passages of Water and Labor Cultures of the Coastal South in the discussion Group logo of LLC Southern United StatesLLC Southern United States on MLA Commons 11 months, 1 week ago

    Passages of Water and Labor Cultures of the Coastal South and the Caribbean

    In Edwidge Danticat’s short story “Without Inspection,” an undocumented Haitian immigrant, Arnold, dies from unsafe working conditions at a construction site in south Florida. In the news coverage about the event, the construction company and developer release a state…[Read more]

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    Charlie Gleek deposited Southernness on Display in Recent Little Magazines in the group Group logo of LLC Southern United StatesLLC Southern United States on MLA Commons 1 year, 4 months ago

    A consideration of how paratextual information present on two, recently-published little magazines — The Southern Review and The Virginia Quarterly Review — might work to mediate their readers’ literary expectations and interpretations. Published simultaneously at: https://southernfringes.substack.com

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    Joanna Davis-McElligatt started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: Afrosouthernfuturism and the Black Speculative Arts in the discussion Group logo of LLC Southern United StatesLLC Southern United States on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    MLA 2022 CFP: Afrosouthernfuturism and the Black Speculative Arts

    Recently scholars have begun to explore how black artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers construct blackness, black embodiment, and black experiences in the speculative arts. Indeed, as Isiah Lavender III has argued, “one might argue that chattel slavery is an apocalyptic e…[Read more]

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    Frank Cha started the topic CFP: Subaltern Souths in the discussion Group logo of LLC Southern United StatesLLC Southern United States on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    For MLA 2022:

    Subaltern Souths

    2022 MLA Convention

    Washington, D.C., January 6–9, 2022

    In her contribution to Keywords for Southern Studies (2016), Shirley Elizabeth Thompson contends that southern studies would benefit from “more precisely articulating the disruptive knowledge of subalterns.” This panel seeks to continue this work by problem…[Read more]

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    Joseph R. Millichap deposited “The Dark Mirror of Our Lives”: Richard Wright, 12 Million Black Voices, and Auto/biography in the group Group logo of LLC Southern United StatesLLC Southern United States on MLA Commons 2 years ago

    First presented as a paper at the 2018 SAMLA Convention in Atlanta, this article will become a chapter of my book in progress on the photobooks of the 1930s and 1940s illustrated with the photographs of the Farm Security Administration.

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    Jervette Ward started the topic 2021 MLA LLC African American Forum-Linked Virtual Panels in the discussion Group logo of LLC Southern United StatesLLC Southern United States on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month ago

    The attached documents provide a list with links to the 2021 MLA LLC African American Forum-Linked Virtual Panels.

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    Joseph R. Millichap replied to the topic Seeking Your Feedback Regarding the MLA Commons in the discussion Group logo of LLC Southern United StatesLLC Southern United States on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months ago

    Kirstin and Anne,

    Thanks for you thoughtful responses on the topic of the MLA Commons. Let me reiterate that I do have trouble posting on my personal page and receiving technical support from the site. I do get notices on new topics, and I occasionally respond to them.

    I do think that if the various southern studies sites hooked on and talked up…[Read more]

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    Joseph R. Millichap replied to the topic Seeking Your Feedback Regarding the MLA Commons in the discussion Group logo of LLC Southern United StatesLLC Southern United States on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months ago

    Kirstin and Anne,

    Thanks for you thoughtful responses on the topic of the MLA Commons. Let me reiterate that I do have trouble posting on my personal page and receiving technical support from the site. I do get notices on new topics, and I occasionally respond to them.

    I do think that if the various southern studies sites hooked on and talked up…[Read more]

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    Joseph R. Millichap replied to the topic Seeking Your Feedback Regarding the MLA Commons in the discussion Group logo of LLC Southern United StatesLLC Southern United States on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months ago

    Kirstin and Anne,

    Thanks for you thoughtful responses on the topic of the MLA Commons. Let me reiterate that I do have trouble posting on my personal page and receiving technical support from the site. I do get notices on new topics, and I occasionally respond to them.

    I do think that if the various southern studies sites hooked on and talked up…[Read more]

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    Kirstin Squint replied to the topic Seeking Your Feedback Regarding the MLA Commons in the discussion Group logo of LLC Southern United StatesLLC Southern United States on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months ago

    Thank you, Joe and Anne, for your responses. You have both pointed out issues that I have with the platform. I find it difficult to use mainly because I forget about it, and I think receiving notice of the topic would help. I received an email regarding both of your replies (apologies for my slowness to reply to you–2020 continues to present many…[Read more]

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    Anne Malena replied to the topic Seeking Your Feedback Regarding the MLA Commons in the discussion Group logo of LLC Southern United StatesLLC Southern United States via email on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months ago

    Hi Kirstin,

    Actually, it’s not that hard to use but I don’t think of it unless I’m
    prompted as I have been by Joseph’s response to you. Is there a way that I
    would receive notice of the topic? Perhaps I did and ignored it but I
    originally joined the group to keep appraised of what is being researched
    and discussed. Best, Anne

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    Joseph R. Millichap replied to the topic Seeking Your Feedback Regarding the MLA Commons in the discussion Group logo of LLC Southern United StatesLLC Southern United States on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months ago

    Kirstin Squint,

    I sent you a reply on here the day you posted, but it doesn’t seem to be on here. This was the main issue I raised with MLA Commons; it is difficult to use, so nobody uses it. I use it as a webpage only because I don’t have one as a retiree. Best wishes on this request, but I bet mine will be your only response.

    Joe Millichap

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    Kirstin Squint started the topic Seeking Your Feedback Regarding the MLA Commons in the discussion Group logo of LLC Southern United StatesLLC Southern United States on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months ago

    Hello Everyone!

    I currently chair the executive committee of the LLC Southern US Forum and am seeking feedback from our membership. Our forum hasn’t been particularly active in the MLA Commons, and I am currently completing a report for the MLA, one of the goals of which is to find out what would make the Commons more useful for our purposes.…[Read more]

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