Melus

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Nurturing Transatlantic Ties: In Memory of John3
Honoring the Legacy of Jean Fagan Yellin (1930-2023)2
“There but Not There”:Green Islandand the Transpacific Dimensions of Representing White Terror2
Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte. Christopher Pexa1
The House Where My Soul Lives: The Life of Margaret Walker. Maryemma Graham1
Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture. Britt Rusert1
Writing the Survivor: The Rape Novel in Late Twentieth-Century American Fiction. Robin E. Field1
Laughing through the Mask in Invisible Man1
The Black Utopia: Secret Societies and Time Travel in W. E. B. Du Bois and Sutton E. Griggs1
“Say, Who Owns This House?”: US Violence, Indebtedness, and Care in Toni Morrison’s Home1
“A Poem Is a Gesture toward Home”: Formal Plurality and Black/Queer Critical Hope in Jericho Brown’s Duplex Form1
Violence, Ritual, and Vogue: Black Queer Feminist Praxis in Motion1
Audiovisual Materiality and the Technopoetical Gesture in Recent Black Poetry and Performance1
Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora. Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández1
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A Response to Mohja Kahf1
Monstrous “Elsewheres”: The Horror Spatial Imaginary in Black Fiction and Film1
Living through Atomization: Runit Dome, Radioactive Matter, and Poetry of Digestion0
Taking the Blues Away: The Second Edition of The New Negro0
“Uncertain Thresholds”: An Interview with Carmen Maria Machado0
Invisibility and Seeing the Black Dead in Jason Mott’s Hell of a Book0
Loving Mean: Racialized Medicine and the Rise of Postwar Eugenics in Toni Morrison’sHome0
Metanarratives of Slavery0
From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture. Koritha Mitchell0
The Makings and Unmakings of Americans: Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1879-1924. Cristina Stanciu0
Latina Histories and Cultures: Feminist Readings and Recoveries of Archival Knowledge. Edited by Montse Feu and Yolanda Padilla0
A Story in Sound: The Unpublished Writings of Sidney Bechet0
Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions. David S. Roh0
“He Hopes They Have Disappeared”: Necro-elasticity and the Tyranny of the Present in Helena María Viramontes’s “The Cariboo Cafe”0
Cartographic Memory: Social Movement Activism and the Production of Space. Juan Herrera0
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“Nothing Made Them Change Their Minds about the Medical Industry”: Medical Abuse, Incarceration, and Healing in Toni Morrison’sHome0
Letters from Filadelfia: Early Latino Literature and the Trans-American Elite. Rodrigo Lazo0
Collective Care as Affective Justice in Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy0
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“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
Indian Removal and the Plantation South: Cherokee Present-Absence in Three Neo-Slave Narratives0
Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures. Jose O. Fernandez0
The Laughing “No”: Interpellation, Expression, and Laughter inQuicksand0
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Reclaiming the Street in Toni Morrison’sJazz0
Phoenix Rising:The Book of Phoenixand Black Feminist Resistance0
“Well Then, Carry On”: Piercing Recalcitrant History in LaShonda Katrice Barnett’sJam on the Vine0
Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska’s Indigenous and Asian Entanglements. Juliana Hu Pegues0
Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy. Glenda Carpio0
Getting to the Root of US Healthcare Injustices through Morrison’s Root Workers0
Never Die Alone: Donald Goines, Black Iconicity, and Série Noire0
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
Postindian Aesthetics: Affirming Indigenous Literary Sovereignty. Debra K. S. Barker and Connie A. Jacobs, Editors0
Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures. Kelly Wisecup0
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
Falling Down and Apart: Post-Orientalism and Iranian American Identity in Sons and Other Flammable Objects0
Harriet Jacobs’s Text of Bodily Repetitions0
Imagining Aerial Surveillance: (Eco)Poetics and War in Solmaz Sharif’s Look0
Postmemory Workshops: Vietnamese American Poets, Refugee Memory Work, and Creative Writing0
Introduction: Honoring John Wharton Lowe0
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Spatial Anxiety and Identity in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child and Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half0
The Thirdspace of the Borderlands in Luis Alberto Urrea’sThe House of Broken Angels: A Geocritical Reading0
Chinese Exclusion, Indigeneity, and Settler-Colonial Refusal in C Pam Zhang’sHow Much of These Hills is Gold0
Magical Habits. Monica Huerta0
On Opacity: Toni Morrison’s and Paule Marshall’s Narrative Vision Therapy0
“I Have Been in Sorrow’s Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots”: The Lived and Literary Labors of Zora Neale Hurston0
Black Radicalism after the Haitian Revolution: Langston Hughes’s Emperor of Haiti0
“Doomed by the Confusion in Their Design”: Racialized Urban Space, Redlining, and Monolithic Whiteness in Paule Marshall’s Brown Girl, Brownstones0
We Are Here”: Race, Gender, and Spaces of “Common Ground” in the Works of John Edgar Wideman, bell hooks, and Jesmyn Ward0
Catholicism as Environmental Protest in Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima and Ana Castillo’s So Far from God0
Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro:Gloria Anzaldúa’s Response to 9/110
Growing Better, Not Going Faster: World War I, Holy Land Mania, and Transnational Exchange in the Works of Abraham Mitrie Rihbany0
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“Too Clean, Too White”: Resistance to the Racial Politics of Hygiene in Helena María Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus0
Land Uprising: Native Story Power and the Insurgent Horizons of Latinx Indigeneity. Simón Ventura Trujillo0
Vincent Toro’s Hurricane Formalism0
Capital Citizens: Disinvesting the Individual in Helena María Viramontes’sUnder the Feet of Jesus0
Insurgencies fromThere There0
Calling in The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf on Indigeneity0
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“I’m Leaving Evidence”: Traumatic Rememory, Identity, and the Body in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora0
“Then Her World Exploded”: Science-Fictional Reading and Ta-Nehisi Coates’sBetween the World and Me0
“I Am Unhide-able”: Conditions of Visibility in The Poet X0
Lowe and Behold: Evviva Maestro Giovanni!0
Between Two Emancipations: Louise Erdrich and the Politics of Disavowal0
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“A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place”: Reading Minimalism, Place, and Gender from Anzia Yezierska to Marie Kondo0
“But You’re Not at All like Bertha”: Contemporary (Black) Trans* Studies and Richard Wright’s “Man of All Work”0
Indigenous Textual Cultures: Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire. Tony Ballantyne, Lachy Paterson, and Angela Wanhalla0
“An Actual Experience of Finality”: Melodramatic Retention and Generative Discomfort in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s An Octoroon0
Intimate Eating: Racialized Spaces and Radical Futures. Anita Mannur0
Blue Village: A.B. Spellman, Joel Oppenheimer, and the Poetics of Interracial Community0
To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship. Elizabeth McHenry0
Coyolxauqui’s Bent Heart: An Interview with Richard Villegas, Jr.0
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Writing “the Inaudible Voice of It All”: John Lowe’s Crosscurrents0
Indigeneity Buried, Then Unearthed, in Mohja Kahf’s “Fayetteville as in Fate” and The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf0
Urban Homelands: Writing the Native City from Oklahoma. Lindsey Claire Smith0
A Time of Plague: Allegory, Seriality, and Historicity in Samuel R. Delany’s Return to Nevèrÿon0
“Tucson, City of Thieves”: Biocapitalism and Land Dispossession in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead0
Letters from Filadelfia: Early Latino Literature and the Trans-American Elite. Rodrigo Lazo0
Queering Ethnic Rites of Passage: Transparent and One Day at a Time0
Friendship in the Time of COINTELPRO: Clarence Major and Dingane Joe Goncalves0
Japanese Atmospheres and the Pleasures of Belonging: Winnifred Eaton and Sadakichi Hartmann0
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Other Looks: Chicana/o Responses to US Magazine Aesthetics0
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The Kosher Capones: A History of Chicago’s Jewish Gangsters. Joe Kraus0
Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature. Jenna Grace Sciuto0
Black Celebrity: Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists. Emily Ruth Rutter0
Fugitive Figurations of Chronic Disability: Reconstructing Black Disability Politics in Frances Harper’s Iola Leroy0
The Routledge Introduction to Native American Literature. Drew Lopenzina0
Correction to: As Good as Comedy Gold: Tracing Jewish Heritage and Humor in the Works of Joseph Heller0
Textuality in a Jazz Aesthetic: Textual Rituals for Transformation in Sharon Bridgforth’slove conjure/blues0
Reckoning with Restorative Justice: Hawai‘i Women’s Prison Writing. Leanne Trapedo Sims0
The Ambivalent Elegies of Gwendolyn Brooks0
The Unhurried Hermeneutics of Anti-Black Violence in Toni Morrison’sParadise0
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
A Communitarian Politics of Pastiche: Transnational Feminism, Writing, and Citation in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being0
The Violence of Economies of Dispossession in Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends0
Loops, Loops, Loops: Torsion, Freedom, and Form in Tomás Rivera’s . . . y no se lo tragó la tierra0
Taxidermy and the Environment in Cristina García’s The Agüero Sisters0
Criminal Genius in African American and US Literature, 1793-1845. Erin Forbes0
Sula’s Compromise: Toni Morrison and the Editorial Politics of Sensitivity0
Confounded by Time and Love: An Interview with Jericho Brown0
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The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown. Martha J. Cutter0
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The Weight of the Past: Mixed-Race Materiality in Post-Racial Asian American Literature0
On Transcultural Presence and Reparative Reading Practice: Rethinking Belonging and Transcultural Transformation in Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents0
Reading Arab American Literary Variations: An Interview with Rajia Hassib0
Janelle Monáe, Dirty Computers, and Embodied Posthumanism0
“I Knew Then Who I Was. I Was a Negro”: Black Armed Defense in Walter White’s A Man Called White0
John Wharton Lowe, Scholar of the Southern Sublime0
Kiese Laymon and the Pedagogy of Revision0
Techniques of Justice: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits and the Problem of Visualizing the Race0
Writing across the Color Line: U.S. Print Culture and the Rise of Ethnic Literature, 1877-1920. Lucas A. Dietrich0
Vibrant Reading: A Transpacific Poetics of Filipinx American Vernacular Archives0
Hiding in John Rechy’s Closet0
“Necessarily Hidden Truth(s)”: Documenting Queer Migrant Experience in Rigoberto González’s Crossing Vines0
A Poetics of Extraterritoriality in Edwidge Danticat’s Refugee Writing0
Guest Editors’ Introduction—Visionary Praxis: Paule Marshall’s, Ntozake Shange’s, and Toni Morrison’s Foresight concerning Sick Violence and Violent Sickness0
Place-Based Learning in Three Bildungsromane: To Kill a Mockingbird; Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; and Under the Feet of Jesus0
Reading with the Grain: The Ecologies ofThe Lowland0
Teaching Jewish American Literature. Roberta Rosenberg and Rachel Rubinstein0
Staging A Chinese American Tragedy: Edith Eaton’s “The Wisdom of the New”0
Black Insecurity at the End of the World0
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Fatherhood in the Borderlands: A Daughter’s Slow Approach. Domino Renee Perez0
“It’s Not My Freedom or Free”: The Big Box and Toni Morrison’s Meditations on Violence, Justice, and Power0
The “Con” in Conspiracy: Racial Violence as Political Assassination in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Topdog/Underdog0
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Drowning out Karen in The Chosen Place, The Timeless People0
The Trembling Network or a Sociology of Feeling: W. E. B. Du Bois’sThe Quest of the Silver Fleece0
Color-blind Aesthetics in Manuel Muñoz: Reading Race in Form and Feeling0
We Are the Stars: Colonizing and Decolonizing the Oceti Sakowin Literary Tradition. Sarah Hernandez0
The Law’s Business: Peculiar Profits in Edward Jones’sThe Known World0
Irreconcilable Loss in Cristina Henríquez’sThe World in Half0
“This Sea of Upturned Faces”: The Rhetorical Role of Audience in Frederick Douglass’s Constitutional Interpretation at Midcentury0
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“No Future to Be Had”: Journeying toward Death in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon0
Asian American Fiction after 1965: Transnational Fictions of Economic Mobility. Christopher T. Fan0
The Diseased Body Politic of Early America in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy0
As Good as Comedy Gold: Tracing Jewish Heritage and Humor in the Works of Joseph Heller0
Welcome to Oxnard: Race, Place, and Chicana Adolescence in Michele Serros’s Writings. Cristina Herrera0
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The Political Arrays of American Indian Literary History. James H. Cox0
Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel. Mazen Naous0
“We Were Born from Beauty”: Dis/Inheriting Genealogies of Refugee and Queer Shame in Ocean Vuong’sOn Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous0
“For Those of Us Who Live at the Shoreline”: Rearticulating Social Value and Feminist Relation in the Poetics of Audre Lorde and Joy Harjo0
Narrating Cross-Border Migration, Writing Subjects without History: On Luis Alberto Urrea’sThe Devil’s Highwayand Francisco Cantú’sThe Line Becomes a River0
Possible Selves, Speculative Histories: Dinaw Mengestu and Colson Whitehead’s Narrative Fabulation0
A Violent Peace: Race, U. S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific. Christine Hong0
Jewish Cultural Studies. Simon J. Bronner0
Marronage or Underground? The Black Geographies of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Water Dancer0
Toni Morrison’sTheir Eyes Were Watching God0
Chicano-Chicana Americana: Pop Culture Pluralism Starring Anthony Quinn, Katy Jurado, Robert Beltran, and Lupe Ontiveros. Anthony Macías0
When Black Lives Really Do Matter: Subverting Medical Racism through African-Diasporic Healing Rituals in Toni Morrison’s Fiction0
Debating #OwnVoices: Racial/Ethnic Authenticity, Controlling Images, and Gang Life in Erika T. Wurth’s You Who Enter Here0
An Ocean of Becoming: Routed Motherhood in Lisa Ko’sThe Leavers0
Off the Derech: Leaving Orthodox Judaism. Edited by Ezra Cappell and Jessica Lang0
Beyond Protecting “Life”: The Inverted Language of the Dead and Dying in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing0
Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance. Jeffrey B. Ferguson. Afterword by George B. Hutchinson. Edited and with a Foreword by Werner Sollors0
Correction to: “Say, Who Owns This House?”: US Violence, Indebtedness, and Care in Toni Morrison’s Home0
“They Stood like Men”: Horses, Myth, and Carnophallogocentrism in Toni Morrison’s Home0
Genre Experiments: Thylias Moss’sSlave Mothand the Poetic Neo-Slave Narrative0
The Schlemiel and the Messianic in Michael Chabon’sThe Yiddish Policemen’s Unionand Nicole Krauss’sForest Dark0
Intoxicating Blackness: Addiction and Ambivalent Sounds of Fugitive Life in James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”0
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Novel Subjects: Authorship as Radical Self-Care in Multiethnic American Narratives. Leah A. Milne0
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Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project. J. J. Butts0
Thoughts on My Friend John Lowe0
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