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Reflections on the Conference
It’s now just shy of three weeks past April 19 and I’m still lingering on the papers presented and conversations had at the first American Literature in the World graduate student conference. “Linger” seems appropriate to my mode of contemplation … Continue reading
Posted in Educational institutions, Europe, macro politics, museums, Native-American literature, Nineteenth-century literature, World history
Tagged "Conjectures on World Literature", "Spiritual Marshall Plan for Europe", Ahab, Ben Bascom, Franco Moretti, Hadji Bakara, Herman Melville, Ishmael, John Ames Mitchell, Las Meninas, Moby-Dick, Native Americans, New Left Review, Oliver Baker, Red Army Faktion, Robert M. Hutchins, The Last American, Weatherman, Wynema
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Sherman Alexie, Walt Whitman: Hoop Dreams
November 14, 2012 When Stephen Colbert pointed out with incredulity that he had come out with yet another book, Sherman Alexie said, “That’s what happens when you’re literate.” Yes, from reading to writing: it’s as easy as that, as inevitable. … Continue reading
Posted in Autobiography, collaboration, contemporary poetry, Ethnicity, Genre, Media, mixed races, Modernist poetry, Native-American literature, Nineteenth-century literature, peripheral networks, print medium, Remediation, Remix, Sports, Television, Twentieth century literature, YouTube videos
Tagged "Defending Walt Whitman", basketball, boxing, First Indian on the Moon, Native Americans, Sherman Alexie, Song of Myself, Stephen Colbert, Walt Whitman. Muhammed Ali
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