#CfP for "comparative #literary historical volumes", which will be part of the #Comparative History of #Literatures in European Languages Series (CHLEL).
#CfP for the "Standing Panel: East-West #Literary Relations", which will take place at the 2024 #PAMLA (#PAMLAorg) #conference in Palm Springs on November 7-10, 2024.
Today in Labor History March 18, 1918: U.S. authorities arrested Mexican anarchist Ricardo Flores Magón under the Espionage Act. They charged him with hindering the American war effort and imprisoned him at Leavenworth, where he died under highly suspicious circumstances. The authorities claimed he died of a "heart attack," but Chicano inmates rioted after his death and killed the prison guard who they believed executed him. Magon published the periodical “Regeneracion” with his brother Jesus, and with Licenciado Antonio Horcasitas. The Magonostas later led a revolution in Baja California during the Mexican Revolution. Many American members of the IWW participated. During the uprising, they conquered and held Tijuana for several days. Lowell Blaisdell writes about it in his now hard to find book, “The Desert Revolution,” (1962). Dos Passos references in his “USA Trilogy.”
Today in Labor History March 17, 1968: The U.S. Army Chemical Corps killed over 6,000 sheep while illegally testing a nerve gas agent at the Dugway Proving Ground in Skull Valley, Utah. A 1998 report, the by Air Force Press was the "first documented admission" from the Army that a nerve agent killed the sheep at Skull Valley. The incident inspired Stephen King's novel “The Stand.”
In #100YearsOfSolitude, #GabrielGarciaMarquez wrote about "the quicksand of forgetfulness." I am grateful to his sons for making the hard to decision -- an "act of betrayal," as they put -- to publish his last work while he, too, had fallen into that quicksand. It is a gift to the world of readers, to #literary critics, and to #neurologists.
Today in Labor History February 19, 1807: The authorities arrested former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr for treason. They alleged that he was behind a plot to create an independent country in the southwest of the U.S., but had to acquit him for lack of evidence. Some believed he intended to take Texas or all of Mexico, but accounts vary as to how many supporters he had (anywhere from 40 to 7,000). In 1808, he traveled to England and attempted to garner support for a revolution in Mexico. The Brits kicked him out of the country. Prior to all this, while still vice president he had killed Alexander Hamilton in an illegal duel. He was never tried and all charges against him were dropped. Gore Vidal wrote an historical novel, “Burr,” written in the form of a memoir by Burr. The novel undoes the traditional hagiographies of America’s founding fathers, portraying them as the greedy, self-serving and often times incompetent men they really were. It was the first in his Narratives of Empire series.
The Centre for #Literary and Intermedial Crossings (#CLIC_VUB) "has launched a call for applications for three positions at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium".
#CfP for the 2024 #GSA#seminar "#Narrating Entanglement: #Literary Strategies for a World in Crisis", which will take place in Atlanta on September 26-29, 2024.
#CfP for the GSA (#TheGSA) Panel 2024: "Politics of Form. Ambiguity and Dynamism in #Literary#Genres", which will take place on September 26-29, 2024 in Atlanta.
Die hybride #Tagung "#Literary#Class Studies – Soziale Herkünfte in der #Literatur/Wissenschaft" wird am 20. und 21. Februar 2024 in Münster stattfinden.
#CfP for #essay contributions on "Mitläufer, Wendehälse, Karrieristen. Opportunistische Figuren in #Literatur- und Filmgeschichte / Tag-alongs, Turncoats, Careerists. Opportunistic Characters in #Literary and Film History".
No need to wear a tux, but if you’re a writer who would like to learn how to publish your work in literary journals, join us at the Pipeline Artists ymposium presentation, “Submitting to #Literary Journals,” Jan. 30 7-9 p.m. EST (4-6 p.m. PST). Learn how to get your work out there! Register: https://symposium.pipelineartists.com/submitting-to-literary-journals/
I am peer reviewing a lot of #poetry and #prose for a #literary magazine, and I have to say, by FAR the most common issue with these pieces is self-indulgence and a failure of #editing
Lots of writers have fresh perspectives, brilliant passages, fantastic evocative images... but they just can't resist wrapping them in weaker language, exposition, clumsy sense-making, etc.
If they trusted their readers more, and cut their writing down to the bone, these would be gold.
The event "Border #Temporalities. Doing #Literature in a World of Walls - Pia Berghoff: Temporalities of Migration at the US-Mexico #Border. Ethnographic #Narratives and #Literary Approaches" will take place at the Freie Universität Berlin (#EXC2020) on January 11, 2024.
#CfP for the "Brill Companion to the #Literary History of the Early Anthropocene", which will "offer a historical overview of both canonical and non-canonical early anthropocene literature from a broad geographical perspective".
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Mekong Review is partnering with non/fictionLab to commission a new series of short, collaboratively-written #literary works or criticism. Works will be commissioned in pairs, published as a single work. We'd like one writer to be based in #Australia and one in #SoutheastAsia.