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ICYMI: New & Notable Articles (22 July 2024)

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Each week, we collect the articles that we posted in the last week and put them all in one place, right here on the blog. So no worries if you missed an article we posted to Facebook, X/Twitter, Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, Instagram and/or LinkedIn. 

Here they are, In Case You Missed It: 

Promotional tile featuring a photo of Bernice Johnson Reagon, cover art from the Summer 2018 edition of Feminist Formations, and the text: Celebrating the legacy of Bernice Johnson Reagon Stop Thinking Properly: Feminist Activism and Coalescing with History Read free thru 31 July in Feminist Formations

Stop Thinking Properly: Feminist Activism and Coalescing with History

Kate Boyd

Feminist Formations
Volume 30, Issue 2, Summer 2018
We’re saddened to learn of the passing of the great musician and civil rights activist Bernice Johnson Reagon. 
 
In Feminist Formations, Kate Boyd looks at pain, coalition-building, and institutional critique through key works by Johnson and Alice Walker.
 
Read free thru 31 July
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Outrageous Dieting: The Camp Performance of Richard Simmons

Rhonda Garelick

Postmodern Culture
Volume 6, Number 1, September 1995

Still sad about Richard Simmons? Us too, which is why we're reading about his camp performance

 

Rhonda Garelick's 1995 piece for Postmodern Culture: "Outrageous Dieting: The Camp Performance of Richard Simmons" is free to read thru 31 July 

Read free thru 31 July
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Losing a Voice in Summer

John Stone

Literature and Medicine
Volume 3, 1984

On today's #SummerLit Friday: "Losing a Voice in Summer" — a poem by John Stone from the 1984 edition of Literature and Medicine

Read free through 31 July

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On “The Literal Sense,” a Partial Answers Special Issue in Honor of Jon Whitman

Leona Toker

Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas
Volume 22, Number 2, June 2024
A guest post from Partial Answers, on their new issue “The Literal Sense” in honor of Jon Whitman 
 
Read editor Leona Tokers overview of this special issue of Partial Answers now:
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Summer Beer with Endangered Glacier, and: Haunt

Maureen N. McLane

Wallace Stevens Journal
Volume 35, Number 1, Spring 2011
#SummerLit Friday brings a pair of poems by Maureen N. McLane from the Spring 2011 edition of The Wallace Stevens Journal
 
Read free thru 31 July
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MLN Forum: Translators Reimagine Literary Citizenship in the Academy

Eleni Theodoropoulos and Bradley Harmon

MLN
Volume 138, Number 5, December 2023

 

How and when will translation receive recognition for its crucial role in the academic ecosystem? 

 

Spanning the Hopkins Press blog & 9 articles in a new special issue of MLN, it's a lively and thoughtful 10-scholar forum, open access for a year thru March 2025
 

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