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Jan. 9 | Call for papers: Identities and Technocultures
A 2-day conference about American culture and technologies that examines how new technologies dominate and define Americaness in the US and abroad. Co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts (CESA) and the Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA).
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Debo, Annette. "America in H.D.'s Palimpsest: Place, Race, and Gender in her Early Poetry and Prose," Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park, March 1998.
This study reads the stories H.D. repeatedly tells about being American, stories of the nation and its literature. It challenges the suggestion of a separate American aesthetic while simultaneously emphasizing American influences on modernism; it claims that H.D. establishes a strong tie between regionalist and experimental modernist writing; it clarifies the role of the New Woman in the genesis of modernism; and it reads H.D.‘s use of race, ethnicity, and nationality. Analyzing H.D.‘s work in this way provides stories about identity, place, race, and gender without which the larger critical narrative of modernism is incomplete.
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