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On June 1, the University of Georgia Press will release Brett Biebel's companion to Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon. Biebel's book is designed to aid readers in examining Pynchon's 1997 masterpiece, a book that touches on colonialism, American history, westward expansion, and the dark side of the Age of Enlightenment, all with typical Pynchonian insight, humor, and tragedy.
This new book examines Kim Stanley Robinson’s concern with literary apprenticeship.
The convenors of 2023’s BAAS Panel Black Feminism(s): Past, Present, and Future’ seek submissions from PhD students and ECRs for the 2024 continuation Panel, ‘Black Feminism(s) and Transnational Solidarity’.
BAAS members, make sure to check your emails for a link to the BAAS 2024 Constitutional Amendment vote which is currently running. The vote closes April 1, 2024 at 8pm. If you think you're a member and you haven't received the email with the election link, please contact Kate Ballantyne at secretary@baas.ac.uk.
Reprising its first edition, the conference will focus on how US American identities have been shaped, informed, configured, and challenged since the country’s foundation, looking at the centrality of boundaries broadly intended and borderlands as geopolitical, sociocultural, metaphorical zones of liminality
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