Melus

Papers
(The median citation count of Melus is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)
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Historicizing the Transpacific Settler Colonial Condition: Asian–Indigenous Relations in Shawn Wong’sHomebaseand Viet Thanh Nguyen’sThe Sympathizer8
Loving Mean: Racialized Medicine and the Rise of Postwar Eugenics in Toni Morrison’sHome3
Marronage or Underground? The Black Geographies of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Water Dancer3
“Let Me Confess”: Confession, Complicity, and #MeToo in Junot Díaz'sThis is How You Lose Herand “The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma”2
“What Race Problem?”: The Satirical Gaze of (White) History in The Underground Railroad2
On Transcultural Presence and Reparative Reading Practice: Rethinking Belonging and Transcultural Transformation in Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents1
Black Insecurity at the End of the World1
Birthing a Graphic Archive of Memory: Re-Viewing the Refugee Experience in Thi Bui’sThe Best We Could Do1
Colson Whitehead’s History of the United States1
Techniques of Justice: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits and the Problem of Visualizing the Race1
“In de Affica Soil”: Slavery, Ethnography, and Recovery in Zora Neale Hurston’sBarracoon: The Story of the “Last Black Cargo”1
Janelle Monáe, Dirty Computers, and Embodied Posthumanism1
Sula’s Compromise: Toni Morrison and the Editorial Politics of Sensitivity1
Capital Citizens: Disinvesting the Individual in Helena María Viramontes’sUnder the Feet of Jesus1
Guest Editors’ Introduction—Visionary Praxis: Paule Marshall’s, Ntozake Shange’s, and Toni Morrison’s Foresight concerning Sick Violence and Violent Sickness1
Secret Codes & Oppressive Histories1
The Black Utopia: Secret Societies and Time Travel in W. E. B. Du Bois and Sutton E. Griggs1
Intoxicating Blackness: Addiction and Ambivalent Sounds of Fugitive Life in James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”1
“Necessarily Hidden Truth(s)”: Documenting Queer Migrant Experience in Rigoberto González’s Crossing Vines1
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The Unhurried Hermeneutics of Anti-Black Violence in Toni Morrison’sParadise0
Reading with the Grain: The Ecologies ofThe Lowland0
Vincent Toro’s Hurricane Formalism0
Black Madness :: Mad Blackness. Therí Alyce Pickens0
Empathy and the Phantasmic in Ethnic American Trauma Narratives. Stella Setka0
Lynching: Violence, Rhetoric, and American Identity. Ersula J. Ore0
“A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place”: Reading Minimalism, Place, and Gender from Anzia Yezierska to Marie Kondo0
Chinese Exclusion, Indigeneity, and Settler-Colonial Refusal in C Pam Zhang’sHow Much of These Hills is Gold0
Nurturing Transatlantic Ties: In Memory of John0
Growing Better, Not Going Faster: World War I, Holy Land Mania, and Transnational Exchange in the Works of Abraham Mitrie Rihbany0
Fictions of Western American Domesticity: Indian, Mexican, and Anglo Women in Print Culture, 1850-1950. Amanda J. Zink0
Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance. Jeffrey B. Ferguson. Afterword by George B. Hutchinson. Edited and with a Foreword by Werner Sollors0
Reading Arab American Literary Variations: An Interview with Rajia Hassib0
The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown. Martha J. Cutter0
Latina Histories and Cultures: Feminist Readings and Recoveries of Archival Knowledge. Edited by Montse Feu and Yolanda Padilla0
Violence, Ritual, and Vogue: Black Queer Feminist Praxis in Motion0
Intimate Eating: Racialized Spaces and Radical Futures. Anita Mannur0
Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature. Jenna Grace Sciuto0
Living through Atomization: Runit Dome, Radioactive Matter, and Poetry of Digestion0
Novel Subjects: Authorship as Radical Self-Care in Multiethnic American Narratives. Leah A. Milne0
An Ocean of Becoming: Routed Motherhood in Lisa Ko’s The Leavers0
Writing the Survivor: The Rape Novel in Late Twentieth-Century American Fiction. Robin E. Field0
Narrating Cross-Border Migration, Writing Subjects without History: On Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Devil’s Highway and Francisco Cantú’s The Line Becomes a River0
Reanimating Historical Violence in Multi-Ethnic Graphic Narratives0
John Wharton Lowe, Scholar of the Southern Sublime0
The Diseased Body Politic of Early America in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy0
“We Were Born from Beauty”: Dis/Inheriting Genealogies of Refugee and Queer Shame in Ocean Vuong’sOn Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous0
“It’s Not My Freedom or Free”: The Big Box and Toni Morrison’s Meditations on Violence, Justice, and Power0
On Opacity: Toni Morrison’s and Paule Marshall’s Narrative Vision Therapy0
Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions. David S. Roh0
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Thoughts on My Friend John Lowe0
Drowning out Karen in The Chosen Place, The Timeless People0
Shadow Archives: The Lifecycles of African American Literature. Jean-Christophe Cloutier0
The Routledge Introduction to Native American Literature. Drew Lopenzina0
“No Future to Be Had”: Journeying toward Death in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon0
Letters from Filadelfia: Early Latino Literature and the Trans-American Elite. Rodrigo Lazo0
Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel. Mazen Naous0
Jewish Cultural Studies. Simon J. Bronner0
Event, Trauma, and Ethics in Wing Tek Lum’sThe Nanjing Massacre0
Friendship in the Time of COINTELPRO: Clarence Major and Dingane Joe Goncalves0
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The Laughing “No”: Interpellation, Expression, and Laughter inQuicksand0
Hiding in John Rechy’s Closet0
A Violent Peace: Race, U. S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific. Christine Hong0
Off the Derech: Leaving Orthodox Judaism. Edited by Ezra Cappell and Jessica Lang0
Taking the Blues Away: The Second Edition of The New Negro0
The Trope of the Papers: Rethinking the (Un)Documented in African American Literature0
The Law’s Business: Peculiar Profits in Edward Jones’sThe Known World0
Toni Morrison’sTheir Eyes Were Watching God0
Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska’s Indigenous and Asian Entanglements. Juliana Hu Pegues0
The Makings and Unmakings of Americans: Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1879-1924. Cristina Stanciu0
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States. Maya Schenwar, Joe Macaré, and Alana Yu-Lan Price0
The Kosher Capones: A History of Chicago’s Jewish Gangsters. Joe Kraus0
Reclaiming the Street in Toni Morrison’sJazz0
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Jean Toomer after Cane0
A Time of Plague: Allegory, Seriality, and Historicity in Samuel R. Delany’s Return to Nevèrÿon0
Lowe and Behold: Evviva Maestro Giovanni!0
Place-Based Learning in Three Bildungsromane: To Kill a Mockingbird; Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; and Under the Feet of Jesus0
Getting to the Root of US Healthcare Injustices through Morrison’s Root Workers0
Indian Removal and the Plantation South: Cherokee Present-Absence in Three Neo-Slave Narratives0
Postindian Aesthetics: Affirming Indigenous Literary Sovereignty. Debra K. S. Barker and Connie A. Jacobs, Editors0
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Honoring the Legacy of Jean Fagan Yellin (1930-2023)0
“Boundaries Bind Unbinding”: Jazz and Cold War Cosmopolitanism in the Margins of Langston Hughes’sAsk Your Mama0
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Cartographic Memory: Social Movement Activism and the Production of Space. Juan Herrera0
Ten Zen Koans Translated from Japanese, Mandarin, Wu, Vietnamese, Thai, Fujian, Korean, Tibetan, Hakka, Javenese, Mizo, Nepal Bhasa, Khasi, Buryat, Malay, Paiwan, Burmese, Ryukyuan, and Okinawan by Ja0
“He Hopes They Have Disappeared”: Necro-elasticity and the Tyranny of the Present in Helena María Viramontes’s “The Cariboo Cafe”0
On Freedom and the Will to Adorn: The Art of the African American Essay. Cheryl A. Wall0
Cherokee Historical Fiction and Indigenous Science Fiction inRiding the Trail of Tears0
Audiovisual Materiality and the Technopoetical Gesture in Recent Black Poetry and Performance0
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Postmemory Workshops: Vietnamese American Poets, Refugee Memory Work, and Creative Writing0
Sigrid Nunez on the Writer’s Life0
Never Die Alone: Donald Goines, Black Iconicity, and Série Noire0
Flavor and Soul: Italian America at Its African American Edge. John Gennari0
Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures. Kelly Wisecup0
Body Parts of Empire: Visual Abjection, Filipino Images, and the American Archive. Nerissa S. Balce0
“This Sea of Upturned Faces”: The Rhetorical Role of Audience in Frederick Douglass’s Constitutional Interpretation at Midcentury0
Genre Experiments: Thylias Moss’sSlave Mothand the Poetic Neo-Slave Narrative0
The Thirdspace of the Borderlands in Luis Alberto Urrea’sThe House of Broken Angels: A Geocritical Reading0
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The Weight of the Past: Mixed-Race Materiality in Post-Racial Asian American Literature0
Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas. Jinah Kim0
“I Knew Then Who I Was. I Was a Negro”: Black Armed Defense in Walter White’s A Man Called White0
Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project. J. J. Butts0
The New Immigrant Whiteness: Race, Neoliberalism, and Post-Soviet Migration to the United States. Claudia Sadowski-Smith0
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Writing “the Inaudible Voice of It All”: John Lowe’s Crosscurrents0
Metanarratives of Slavery0
“Say, Who Owns This House?”: US Violence, Indebtedness, and Care in Toni Morrison’s Home0
Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures. Jose O. Fernandez0
Magical Habits. Monica Huerta0
Correction to: “Say, Who Owns This House?”: US Violence, Indebtedness, and Care in Toni Morrison’s Home0
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Fugitive Figurations of Chronic Disability: Reconstructing Black Disability Politics in Frances Harper’s Iola Leroy0
Monstrous “Elsewheres”: The Horror Spatial Imaginary in Black Fiction and Film0
“I Am Unhide-able”: Conditions of Visibility in The Poet X0
“Doomed by the Confusion in Their Design”: Racialized Urban Space, Redlining, and Monolithic Whiteness in Paule Marshall’s Brown Girl, Brownstones0
Geographies of Flight: Phyllis Wheatley to Octavia Butler. William Merrill Decker0
Irish American Fiction from World War II to JFK: Anxiety, Assimilation, and Activism. Beth O’Leary Anish0
The Political Arrays of American Indian Literary History. James H. Cox0
Confounded by Time and Love: An Interview with Jericho Brown0
Land Uprising: Native Story Power and the Insurgent Horizons of Latinx Indigeneity. Simón Ventura Trujillo0
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Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture. Britt Rusert0
Toward a Poetics of Allyship: Rajiv Mohabir’s Radical, Animal Coolitude0
“Nothing Made Them Change Their Minds about the Medical Industry”: Medical Abuse, Incarceration, and Healing in Toni Morrison’sHome0
“Well Then, Carry On”: Piercing Recalcitrant History in LaShonda Katrice Barnett’s Jam on the Vine0
Encrypted Citations: The Bondwoman’s Narrative and the Case of Jane Johnson0
When Black Lives Really Do Matter: Subverting Medical Racism through African-Diasporic Healing Rituals in Toni Morrison’s Fiction0
A Story in Sound: The Unpublished Writings of Sidney Bechet0
Introduction: Honoring John Wharton Lowe0
“But You’re Not at All like Bertha”: Contemporary (Black) Trans* Studies and Richard Wright’s “Man of All Work”0
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval. Saidiya Hartman0
Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora. Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández0
Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro:Gloria Anzaldúa’s Response to 9/110
“There but Not There”: Green Island and the Transpacific Dimensions of Representing White Terror0
Teaching Jewish American Literature. Roberta Rosenberg and Rachel Rubinstein0
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The House Where My Soul Lives: The Life of Margaret Walker. Maryemma Graham0
Queering Ethnic Rites of Passage: Transparent and One Day at a Time0
Color-blind Aesthetics in Manuel Muñoz: Reading Race in Form and Feeling0
Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality. Jennifer C. Nash0
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Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte. Christopher Pexa0
Writing across the Color Line: U.S. Print Culture and the Rise of Ethnic Literature, 1877-1920. Lucas A. Dietrich0
Phoenix Rising:The Book of Phoenixand Black Feminist Resistance0
“Then Her World Exploded”: Science-Fictional Reading and Ta-Nehisi Coates’sBetween the World and Me0
The Schlemiel and the Messianic in Michael Chabon’sThe Yiddish Policemen’s Unionand Nicole Krauss’sForest Dark0
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The “Con” in Conspiracy: Racial Violence as Political Assassination in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Topdog/Underdog0
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Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial. Edited by Sarah D. Wald, David J. Vázquez, Priscilla Solis Ybarra, and Sarah Jaquette Ray0
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Indigenous Textual Cultures: Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire. Tony Ballantyne, Lachy Paterson, and Angela Wanhalla0
“They Stood like Men”: Horses, Myth, and Carnophallogocentrism in Toni Morrison’s Home0
Catholicism as Environmental Protest in Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima and Ana Castillo’s So Far from God0
To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship. Elizabeth McHenry0
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We Are Here”: Race, Gender, and Spaces of “Common Ground” in the Works of John Edgar Wideman, bell hooks, and Jesmyn Ward0
“Doesn’t Matter if It’s Crack or . . . Pesticides, AIDS, It’s All the Same Shit”: Body-Land Metonymies in Cherríe Moraga’s Heroes and Saints0
Irreconcilable Loss in Cristina Henríquez’sThe World in Half0
“A Poem Is a Gesture toward Home”: Formal Plurality and Black/Queer Critical Hope in Jericho Brown’s Duplex Form0
Introduction—Historical Fiction and the 1960s: Mediating the Past and Reimagining the Future0
The American Haskalah: Sanctifying Education in Mary Antin’s The Promised Land, Abraham Cahan’s The Rise of David Levinsky, and Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers0
“Too Clean, Too White”: Resistance to the Racial Politics of Hygiene in Helena María Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus0
Insurgencies fromThere There0
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Afterword—The Racialized Past is Racist Prologue: The Relevance and Resonance of Historical Novels in the Age of Trump0
From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture. Koritha Mitchell0
Textuality in a Jazz Aesthetic: Textual Rituals for Transformation in Sharon Bridgforth’slove conjure/blues0
Other Looks: Chicana/o Responses to US Magazine Aesthetics0
Black Celebrity: Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists. Emily Ruth Rutter0
Articulations of Resistance: Transformative Practices in Contemporary Arab-American Poetry. Sirène H. Harb0
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The Trembling Network or a Sociology of Feeling: W. E. B. Du Bois’sThe Quest of the Silver Fleece0
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