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{"title":"The issue: New technologies and language education","authors":"Kristin J. Davin","doi":"10.1111/modl.12925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/modl.12925","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42049,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE MIDWEST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION","volume":"100 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140642988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Understanding the factors supporting language teachers’ sustained motivation until retirement","authors":"Åsta Haukås","doi":"10.1111/modl.12920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/modl.12920","url":null,"abstract":"While many language teachers leave the profession early, others thrive and teach until retirement. Understanding how these teachers maintain their passion can help identify the support needed for their personal and professional growth. However, research on the factors behind their sustained happiness in the teaching profession is limited. The main objective of this qualitative study was to explore the beliefs and career stories of three recently retired German language teachers in Norway, recognized for their long‐term motivation and effective teaching over several decades. Data were generated from in‐depth semistructured interviews and analyzed through the lens of self‐determination theory. The analysis revealed that the teachers shared several key characteristics. First, they enjoyed a high degree of autonomy related to the choice of subject content and teaching approaches. Second, they perceived themselves as highly competent in the subject and expressed a passion for it. Third, they cherished being with students and managed to establish good relationships with them. The findings suggest that teachers should be aware of their basic psychological needs and reflect on how they can be fulfilled. Furthermore, school administrators should foster trust in teachers as autonomous professionals and actively support their competency development and relationships with students and colleagues.","PeriodicalId":42049,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE MIDWEST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140635977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"NFMLTA/MLJ Roundtable Conference Grant","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/modl.12926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/modl.12926","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42049,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE MIDWEST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION","volume":"77 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140557285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Notes on Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/mml.2022.a924160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mml.2022.a924160","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> Notes on Contributors <!-- /html_title --></li> </ul> <p>KASSIE JO BARON received her PhD in English at the University of Iowa. Her dissertation, \"Manufacturing the Mill Girl: Working-Class White Women's Bodies in New England Factory Literature, 1830–1860,\" examines literary representations of female textile operatives' bodies during the first industrial revolution.</p> <p>JAMIE CHEN is an international graduate student and English PhD candidate at the University of Iowa. Her research interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglophone novels, cosmopolitan readership, and the novel as aesthetic and material form. She is especially drawn to the political potential of unintended readers, unexpected textual circulation, and individual readerly affect that does not conform to conventional models of pleasure or disgust. Besides studying narrative structure, she is also pursuing a certificate with the Center of the Book to support her work with manuscripts and small letterpress publications.</p> <p>PAUL DEVLIN is an associate professor of English at the United States Merchant Marine Academy and the book review editor of <em>African American Review</em>. He is the editor of <em>Ralph Ellison in Context</em> (2021) and other books.</p> <p>ANDREW FLECK is an associate professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso. His research focuses on early modern English engagement with the Dutch and on the history of science. His work has appeared in <em>JMEMS, SEL, MARDiE, JBS</em>, and <em>Studies in Philology</em>. His monograph, <em>English National Identity and the Image of the Dutch: From the Armada to the Glorious Revolution</em>, was published early in 2024 by Palgrave.</p> <p>JACK O'BRIANT is a PhD candidate in English at Loyola University Chicago. His research focuses on the role of religion in modern and contemporary literature and culture, and he is currently working on a dissertation investigating manifestations of religion in the contemporary American migrant novel from the early 1990s to the present day.</p> <p>MARIYA SHYMCHYSHYN is chair of the Department of Literary Theory and World Literature at Kyiv National Linguistics University (Ukraine). She holds a PhD in World Literature and Literary Theory and an MA in Comparative Literature. During 2003–2004 she was a Junior Faculty Development Program Fellow at Iowa State University. She did research for \"Urban Space and Identity\" at Loyola University (Chicago) as a Fulbright Scholar during 2013–2014. She has taught at various Ukrainian universities. Dr. Shymchyshyn is the author of three books (<em>Lesiya Ukrainka's Ouevre in the Anglophone World</em>, Ternopil, 2003; <em>The Harlem Renaissance (History, Theory, Poetics and the African-American Identity)</em>, Ternopil, 2010; <em>Geographies of Identity in 21st-Century Literature</em>, Kyiv, 2020). She is a c","PeriodicalId":42049,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE MIDWEST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION","volume":"107 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140571265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Immigrant as a Blogger in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah","authors":"Mariya Shymchyshyn","doi":"10.1353/mml.2022.a924155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mml.2022.a924155","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>The preliminary part of this article outlines the changes that immigrants face in today's era of global mobility and how these changes correlate with the aesthetics of migratory fiction. Then I discuss the identity of a Nigerian immigrant, Ifemelu, in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's <i>Americanah</i> and the reasons that led to her dissatisfaction with identitarian politics in the United States and prompted her to start a blog about racism. The article concentrates on the monetization of race through Ifemelu's blog posts and the movement from politicizing race to its capitalization. I assess the grounds for her shift from political blogging in the United States to writing a historical and cultural blog after returning to Nigeria. Her blogging in America became a way of capitalizing on race while in Nigeria, suggesting that cultural and historical blogging is a way to build a new, collective, decolonized identity. Decolonization as an act of refusal must be turned into the act of assertion, an act of refoundation.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":42049,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE MIDWEST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140571465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Wild Intelligence: Poets' Libraries and the Politics of Knowledge in Postwar America by Mary Catherine Kinniburgh (review)","authors":"Weishun Lu","doi":"10.1353/mml.2022.a924159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mml.2022.a924159","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt; &lt;span&gt;Reviewed by:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; &lt;em&gt;Wild Intelligence: Poets' Libraries and the Politics of Knowledge in Postwar America&lt;/em&gt; by Mary Catherine Kinniburgh &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Weishun Lu &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;em&gt;Wild Intelligence: Poets' Libraries and the Politics of Knowledge in Postwar America&lt;/em&gt;. Mary Catherine Kinniburgh. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2022. vii + 192 pp. &lt;p&gt;By examining the evolving libraries and book collections of minor and radical poets in postwar America, M. C. Kinniburgh shows how writers at the social and political margins develop a shelf of one's own and create alternative possibilities of knowledge creation outside of elite institutions. The title &lt;em&gt;Wild Intelligence&lt;/em&gt; is fitting in describing this phenomenon given that the book \"traces a different history of information management that is structured not by the needs of government or institutional organizations but by the idea that a life of poetry is an act of political and spiritual survival\" (6). The metaphor \"wild\" describes the need for some poets to explore extra-governmental and ungovernable ways of seeking knowledge. \"Intelligence\" inspires a broadened definition of knowledge—that is, knowledge is not simply the sum of the information available but a result of human curation, classification, and manipulation. Importantly, Kinniburgh's book develops the concept of poetics of information, which shifts our assumptions about the basic unit of poetry and the timeline of poetic composition. Under her new framework, poetry is not a product but a practice, and this practice begins long before the moment a poet lays down their first word on the page. By implication, poetry is an epistemological tool for contemporary poets such as Charles Olson and &lt;strong&gt;[End Page 177]&lt;/strong&gt; Audre Lorde, who figure prominently in this book: if we seek to study such writers' poetics thoroughly, Kinniburgh argues, we ought to pay attention to when, where, and how they gather, organize, and transform information throughout their creative process.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Departing from close reading, which is typical in poetry studies, Kinniburgh adopts the methods of a book historian and resists the tradition of treating \"the book rather than the library [as] the unit of analysis\" (12). Each chapter of the book focuses on a poet's \"library.\" The quotation marks are necessary here because almost all of these collections are ever-evolving (both during the poet's lifetime and after their death) and because these collections are not just physical, but also conceptual.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The first chapter examines the Maud/Olson Library (MOL), a collection resulting from Ralph Maud's attempt to recreate Charles Olson's library. One of the most fascinating qualities of MOL is that it is a special collection with \"the gesture of open stacks\" (38). This collection's manner of taking u","PeriodicalId":42049,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE MIDWEST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140571466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"A Jury ye young fools is nothing. What's to be done with Public Opinion!\": True Crime, Individual Responsibility, and Two Averys on Trial","authors":"Kassie Jo Baron","doi":"10.1353/mml.2022.a924152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mml.2022.a924152","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>Articles from <i>BBC, Times</i>, and <i>Rolling Stone</i> have commented on the recent rise of the true crime genre in the United States; however, interest in crime and criminality is anything but new. Nineteenth-century public interest in crime drove the press, leading to an explosion of printed material. Textile operative Sarah Maria Cornell's 1832 murder by Methodist minister Ephraim K. Avery was a media sensation that brought together readers in industrial New England and led to journalistic investigations, broadsides, lithographs, a touring show of wax figures, and a threat on P. T. Barnum's life. Those following the case became invested in understanding the lives and motivations of both victim and perpetrator, as the genre's subjective interpretation of objective facts was used to influence consumers' responses. Today, the fascination with the murder of young white women is reproduced in the United States by binge consumption of both serialized and episodic investigations in podcasts and mini-series. The investigation and trial of Steven Avery for the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach drew international interest after the release of Netflix's <i>Making a Murderer</i> in 2015. The popularity of true crime relies on a perennial fascination with violence, a desire to avoid a similar fate, and the sense of community created between fellow consumers. Connecting coverage of the nineteenth-century Ephraim K. Avery with that of today's Steven Avery reveals that true crime media's obsessive focus on white female victims perpetuates an emphasis on personal responsibility that hides systemic violence.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":42049,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE MIDWEST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140571248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fluid Faiths: Reading Religion Relationally in Asian American Literature","authors":"Jack O'Briant","doi":"10.1353/mml.2022.a924154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mml.2022.a924154","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>While the designation of Asian American literature as a field dates back to as recently as the 1970s, it is nevertheless surprising that, to my knowledge, there is not a single scholarly monograph on the topic of religion in Asian American literature. However, in religious studies and the social sciences, there is a growing body of scholarship examining the role of religion in Asian American communities, and particularly, but not exclusively, the prominence of various expressions of Christianity therein. Despite this prominence, criticism within the field of Asian American literature has largely interpreted the presence of Christianity primarily in terms of its associations with oppressive colonial regimes. This article demonstrates the value of supplementing such readings with greater attentiveness to the specific religious histories underlying Asian American literature in order to better account for the ambivalence—rather than outright antagonism—toward Christianity that seems characteristic of many Asian American literary texts. Such an approach implies, just as national and racial identities are historically complex and often contested categories, that religion's cultural fluidity makes it an equally rich site for understanding literary expressions of the painful loss and transformation as well as the unexpected richness and beauty manifested within the conditions and consequences of global migration. Drawing on Shu-mei Shih's notion of relational comparison, the article turns to scholarship on the history of Christianity in both Korea and Vietnam to demonstrate how these histories inform and aid in interpreting the ambivalences of Christianity's presence in the novels <i>Dictée</i> by Theresa Hak Kyung and <i>The Gangster We Are All Looking For</i> by lê thi diem thúy.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":42049,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE MIDWEST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION","volume":"379 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140571400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Ends of Imagination: Trauma Narrative in Arundhati Roy's Prose and Politics","authors":"Jamie Chen","doi":"10.1353/mml.2022.a924156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mml.2022.a924156","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>Arundhati Roy became an overnight literary sensation in 1997: <i>The God of Small Things</i> was published to great acclaim from the critics, with Roy receiving a million-dollars advance and publishing houses snapping up the rights in more than eighteen countries within months of the novel's completion. Roy had spent four years working on the manuscript and would take another two decades to write her second novel, <i>The Ministry of Utmost Happiness</i>. In the meantime she published more than a dozen nonfiction books, whose topics ranged from critiques of nuclear armament to dam development. This article applies a postcolonial lens to the changes that Roy's prose seeks to achieve, focusing particularly on how her fictional and nonfictional work pushes the ends of her writerly imagination to work through personal and collective trauma. I use the term \"work through\" as LaCapra defines it in <i>Writing History, Writing Trauma</i>: \"one is able to distinguish between past and present and to recognize something as having happened to one … which is related to, but not identical with, here and now\" (66). LaCapra's emphasis on distinguishing between the past and present is linked to recognizing change or growth in this analysis, relating back to Roy's work both in terms of its activist applications as well as its experimentations with formal repetition. The article compares stylistic techniques in her nonfiction and fiction, specifically the printer's marks in <i>The Greater Common Good</i> and <i>The God of Small Things</i>, and analyzes how they are functioning differently in a trauma narrative. The article's title is a reference to Roy's first political essay, \"The End of Imagination,\" and the analysis looks at the two interpretations of \"ends,\" both in terms of limitations in her works as well as the conclusion she seeks to achieve through them, positing that Roy's multiple forms of storytelling indicate an imagination that is endless.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":42049,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE MIDWEST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140571392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ralph Ellison's Acoustic Stereoscope: Reading Invisible Man through Günther Anders's Phenomenology of Music","authors":"Paul Devlin","doi":"10.1353/mml.2022.a924153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mml.2022.a924153","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>This article is a reading of Ralph Ellison's <i>Invisible Man</i> (1952) in light of Günther Anders's phenomenology of listening (1931) and hypothesized acoustic stereoscope (1949), proposing the latter as a source for the narrator's speculative desire to hear five recordings of Louis Armstrong's \"(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Bliue\" playing simultaneously. Anders's obscure theories and notions about listening offer a way to conceptualize some of the novel's most enigmatic moments, including its descriptions of echo and its notoriously ambiguous final sentence. The article also explores Anders's career, possible social connections to Ellison, as well as Ellison's renewed interest in music in the late 1940s after years of ambivalence following his decision to stop pursuing music as a career. This recovered interest included working for inventor and sound engineer David Sarser. This part-time employment intersects with the philosophical questions and aural metaphors under investigation here, pointing to a different intellectual context for the novel's prologue and epilogue (1951) than for parts of the novel composed in the 1945–48 period.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":42049,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE MIDWEST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140571245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}