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Nurturing Transatlantic Ties: In Memory of John	4
“There but Not There”:Green Islandand the Transpacific Dimensions of Representing White Terror	3
Honoring the Legacy of Jean Fagan Yellin (1930-2023)	2
“Say, Who Owns This House?”: US Violence, Indebtedness, and Care in Toni Morrison’s Home	1
Monstrous “Elsewheres”: The Horror Spatial Imaginary in Black Fiction and Film	1
Out of the Darkroom: Michael S. Harper’s Photographs	1
Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora. Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández	1
A Response to Mohja Kahf	1
Contributors	1
Laughing through the Mask in Invisible Man	1
“A Poem Is a Gesture toward Home”: Formal Plurality and Black/Queer Critical Hope in Jericho Brown’s Duplex Form	1
Vibrant Reading: A Transpacific Poetics of Filipinx American Vernacular Archives	1
Synaesthetics of Transracial Adoption in Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth	1
The House Where My Soul Lives: The Life of Margaret Walker. Maryemma Graham	1
Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics. V. Jo Hsu	0
Coyolxauqui’s Bent Heart: An Interview with Richard Villegas, Jr.	0
Speculative Spectators: Side-Eyeing Western Empiricism from Nella Larsen to Raven Leilani	0
To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other. Viet Thanh Nguyen	0
Extravagant Camp: The Queer Abjection of Asian America. Chris A Eng	0
We Are the Stars: Colonizing and Decolonizing the Oceti Sakowin Literary Tradition. Sarah Hernandez	0
Asian American Fiction after 1965: Transnational Fictions of Economic Mobility. Christopher T. Fan	0
Racial Performance and Affect in Erika Lopez’s Flaming Iguanas: An All-Girl Road Novel Thing	0
Finding Jewish American Identity in Judaism: Max Gross’s The Lost Shtetl as Midrash	0
Novel Subjects: Authorship as Radical Self-Care in Multiethnic American Narratives. Leah A. Milne	0
The Violence of Economies of Dispossession in Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends	0

Welcome to Oxnard: Race, Place, and Chicana Adolescence in Michele Serros’s Writings. Cristina Herrera	0
Submission Information	0
New Book Review Editor	0
“That Bit of Art”: Love, Failure, and Maud Martha	0
Postindian Aesthetics: Affirming Indigenous Literary Sovereignty. Debra K. S. Barker and Connie A. Jacobs, Editors	0
Black Celebrity: Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists. Emily Ruth Rutter	0
“Then Her World Exploded”: Science-Fictional Reading and Ta-Nehisi Coates’sBetween the World and Me	0
Whose Genre? The Boundaries of Genre and the Criminalization of Blackness in Hagar's Daughter	0
Spatial Anxiety and Identity in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child and Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half	0
Confounded by Time and Love: An Interview with Jericho Brown	0
Political Act and Poetic Act: An Interview with Kimiko Hahn	0
Staging A Chinese American Tragedy: Edith Eaton’s “The Wisdom of the New”	0
Bernard Malamud at the Edge of Ethnic Humor	0
Autopic (Re)membering: Racial Exclusion in Everything I Never Told You	0
Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project. J. J. Butts	0
Jewish Cultural Studies. Simon J. Bronner	0
Contributors	0
Urban Homelands: Writing the Native City from Oklahoma. Lindsey Claire Smith	0
Black Radicalism after the Haitian Revolution: Langston Hughes’s Emperor of Haiti	0
To Share It: Black Speculation in Jamaica Kincaid’s Gardens	0
“Too Clean, Too White”: Resistance to the Racial Politics of Hygiene in Helena María Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus	0
Hiding in John Rechy’s Closet	0
Contributors	0
Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora and Comics. Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo	0
“Uncertain Thresholds”: An Interview with Carmen Maria Machado	0
Specters of Possibility: Quests for Freedom and Futurity in Michelle Cliff’s No Telephone to Heaven	0
“I Knew Then Who I Was. I Was a Negro”: Black Armed Defense in Walter White’s A Man Called White	0
Contributors	0
“Playing Latinx” as Settler-Colonial Reenactment	0
A Story in Sound: The Unpublished Writings of Sidney Bechet	0
Roundtable Discussion: Black Speculative Method / Black Speculative Practice	0
Pedagogies of Black Horror	0
Respectable Futurity and Black Girlhood’s Stolen Time in Ntozake Shange’s Betsey Brown	0
Other Lovings: An AfroAsian American Theory of Life. Seulghee Lee	0
Criminal Genius in African American and US Literature, 1793-1845. Erin Forbes	0
Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures. Jose O. Fernandez	0
Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right. Jordan S. Carroll	0
The Life, Literature and Legacy of Luis J. Rodríguez: In the Long Run	0
“A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place”: Reading Minimalism, Place, and Gender from Anzia Yezierska to Marie Kondo	0
Vincent Toro’s Hurricane Formalism	0
Writing Haitian and Dominican Relations as Postmemory in Jasminne Mendez’s and Ana Belique’s Young Adult and Children’s Books	0
Stories from the Provision Grounds: Plantation Futures and Black Survival in Charles Chesnutt and Nnedi Okorafor	0
The Weight of the Past: Mixed-Race Materiality in Post-Racial Asian American Literature	0
Kiese Laymon and the Pedagogy of Revision	0
Entombed Voices	0
“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 Saints	0
Fatherhood in the Borderlands: A Daughter’s Slow Approach. Domino Renee Perez	0
Reckoning with Restorative Justice: Hawai‘i Women’s Prison Writing. Leanne Trapedo Sims	0
“[D]ark puree of flesh . . . / shake everything in your beautiful nasty self / we’re here”: Nasty Unity and Black Possibility in Jayne Cortez’s Firespitter	0
Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics. Darieck Scott	0

Vertamae Grosvenor’s Revolutionary Recipes	0
A Violent Peace: Race, U. S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific. Christine Hong	0
Class Interruptions: Inequality and Division in African Diasporic Women’s Fiction. Robin Brooks	0
Japanese Atmospheres and the Pleasures of Belonging: Winnifred Eaton and Sadakichi Hartmann	0
Correction to: Harriet Jacobs’s Text of Bodily Repetitions	0
Introduction: “Dear Colleague”: Divergent Futurisms and the History of Black Speculation in Crisis	0
“Tucson, City of Thieves”: Biocapitalism and Land Dispossession in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead	0
Indian Removal and the Plantation South: Cherokee Present-Absence in Three Neo-Slave Narratives	0
As Good as Comedy Gold: Tracing Jewish Heritage and Humor in the Works of Joseph Heller	0
Correction to: “Say, Who Owns This House?”: US Violence, Indebtedness, and Care in Toni Morrison’s Home	0
Visualizing Transgenerational Memories of the Holocaust in Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz: An Interview with Ari Richter	0
Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction. Jerry Rafiki Jenkins	0
“I Saw Things I Imagined”: Speculative Modalities of Black Trans Feminism in Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer and Solange’s When I G	0
“No Future to Be Had”: Journeying toward Death in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon	0
Problematizing the Multiracial Promised Land: Multiracial Settler Belonging in Hawaiʻi in the Asian American Literary Imagination	0
Chinese Exclusion, Indigeneity, and Settler-Colonial Refusal in C Pam Zhang’sHow Much of These Hills is Gold	0
Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy. Glenda Carpio	0
Intimate Eating: Racialized Spaces and Radical Futures. Anita Mannur	0
The “Great Disappearing Act of Success”: Technologies of Speculation in Contemporary Black Financial Fictions	0
Irish American Fiction from World War II to JFK: Anxiety, Assimilation, and Activism. Beth O’Leary Anish	0
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Postsentimental Horizons in Sui Sin Far’s “In the Land of the Free”	0
Fugitive Time: Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond. Matthew Omelsky	0
Black Citizenship and the American Landscape in the Poetry of The Colored American (1837-41)	0
Sutton Griggs’s Speculative Pedagogy	0
Loops, Loops, Loops: Torsion, Freedom, and Form in Tomás Rivera’s . . . y no se lo tragó la tierra	0
Correction to: As Good as Comedy Gold: Tracing Jewish Heritage and Humor in the Works of Joseph Heller	0
Living through Atomization: Runit Dome, Radioactive Matter, and Poetry of Digestion	0
Taxidermy and the Environment in Cristina García’s The Agüero Sisters	0
Calling in The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf on Indigeneity	0
“For Those of Us Who Live at the Shoreline”: Rearticulating Social Value and Feminist Relation in the Poetics of Audre Lorde and Joy Harjo	0
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John Wharton Lowe, Scholar of the Southern Sublime	0
Cartographic Memory: Social Movement Activism and the Production of Space. Juan Herrera	0
Color-blind Aesthetics in Manuel Muñoz: Reading Race in Form and Feeling	0
Eva’s (In)visible Man: Reading Gayl Jones through the Lens of Black Male Vulnerability	0
An Ocean of Becoming: Routed Motherhood in Lisa Ko’sThe Leavers	0
Possible Selves, Speculative Histories: Dinaw Mengestu and Colson Whitehead’s Narrative Fabulation	0
Thoughts on My Friend John Lowe	0
Contributors	0
“I’m Leaving Evidence”: Traumatic Rememory, Identity, and the Body in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora	0
Harriet Jacobs’s Text of Bodily Repetitions	0
Mothers, Mobility, Narrative: Maternality in US Literature. Mary Jo Bona	0
Between Two Emancipations: Louise Erdrich and the Politics of Disavowal	0
Metanarratives of Slavery	0
Going Underground: Race, Space, and the Subterranean in the Nineteenth-Century United States. Lara Langer Cohen	0
Catholicism as Environmental Protest in Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima and Ana Castillo’s So Far from God	0
“I Am Unhide-able”: Conditions of Visibility in The Poet X	0
Holding the Future on My Bed	0
The Thirdspace of the Borderlands in Luis Alberto Urrea’sThe House of Broken Angels: A Geocritical Reading	0
The Makings and Unmakings of Americans: Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1879-1924. Cristina Stanciu	0
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From Homo Sacer to the Remnant: Reclaiming Orphanhood in Sun Yung Shin’s Unbearable Splendor	0
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 Givers	0
Friendship in the Time of COINTELPRO: Clarence Major and Dingane Joe Goncalves	0
“The Lack of Coherence is a Powerful Disobedience”: A Conversation with Ocean Vuong	0
The Laughing “No”: Interpellation, Expression, and Laughter inQuicksand	0
Beyond “Saving” Life: Biopolitical Dynamics and Virus Narrative in Saving the World	0
Letters from Filadelfia: Early Latino Literature and the Trans-American Elite. Rodrigo Lazo	0
“This Sea of Upturned Faces”: The Rhetorical Role of Audience in Frederick Douglass’s Constitutional Interpretation at Midcentury	0
Reimagining Allotment Discourse: Charles Alexander Eastman's “O-hee-ye-sa” and the Dakota Sonic Critique of Land Allotment in From the Deep Woods to Civilization	0
Conjuring the Haint: The Haunting Poetics of Black Women. drea brown	0
For Pleasure: Race, Experimentalism, and Aesthetics. Rachel Jane Carroll	0
Debating #OwnVoices: Racial/Ethnic Authenticity, Controlling Images, and Gang Life in Erika T. Wurth’s You Who Enter Here	0
Reading with the Grain: The Ecologies ofThe Lowland	0
Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness. Jonathan Howard	0
A Poetics of Extraterritoriality in Edwidge Danticat’s Refugee Writing	0
Invisibility and Seeing the Black Dead in Jason Mott’s Hell of a Book	0
The Ambivalent Elegies of Gwendolyn Brooks	0
Indigeneity Buried, Then Unearthed, in Mohja Kahf’s “Fayetteville as in Fate” and The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf	0
Never Die Alone: Donald Goines, Black Iconicity, and Série Noire	0
On Transcultural Presence and Reparative Reading Practice: Rethinking Belonging and Transcultural Transformation in Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents	0
The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora. Edited by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Lan P. Duong, and Viet Thanh Nguyen	0
MELUS Book Award Winners	0
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Imagining Aerial Surveillance: (Eco)Poetics and War in Solmaz Sharif’s Look	0
Falling Down and Apart: Post-Orientalism and Iranian American Identity in Sons and Other Flammable Objects	0
Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures. Kelly Wisecup	0
Postmemory Workshops: Vietnamese American Poets, Refugee Memory Work, and Creative Writing	0
(Re)Worlding the Plantation: Vulnerability and Regeneration in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones and Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s Blu’s Hangi	0

Literary Reparation: Lists, Till, and The Trees	0
Fugitive Figurations of Chronic Disability: Reconstructing Black Disability Politics in Frances Harper’s Iola Leroy	0
Revolting Indolence: The Politics of Slacking, Lounging, and Daydreaming in Queer and Trans Latinx Culture. Marcos Gonsalez	0
Introduction: Honoring John Wharton Lowe	0
Matters of Inscription: Reading Figures of Latinidad. Christina A. León	0
“He Hopes They Have Disappeared”: Necro-elasticity and the Tyranny of the Present in Helena María Viramontes’s “The Cariboo Cafe”	0
Beyond Protecting “Life”: The Inverted Language of the Dead and Dying in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing	0
“Embrace Diversity / Or Be Destroyed”: John Steinbeck, Octavia Butler, and the Plantationocene	0
The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown. Martha J. Cutter	0
Chicano-Chicana Americana: Pop Culture Pluralism Starring Anthony Quinn, Katy Jurado, Robert Beltran, and Lupe Ontiveros. Anthony Macías	0
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A Communitarian Politics of Pastiche: Transnational Feminism, Writing, and Citation in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being	0
Italian Americans on the Page: Revisiting the Classics and Exploring New Voices. Ryan Calabretta-Sajder and Alan J. Gravano, editors	0
“An Actual Experience of Finality”: Melodramatic Retention and Generative Discomfort in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s An Octoroon	0
“I Have Been in Sorrow’s Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots”: The Lived and Literary Labors of Zora Neale Hurston	0
Dirty Words: Lack and/of Innocence in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye	0
Integrity’s Tombstone: Spider-Man’s Forgotten Black Father Figure, Joe Robertson	0
“The Logic Is Built Right into the Architecture”: Speculative Architecture in Contemporary Queer-of-Color Science Fiction	0
Contributors	0
Colored Women Sittin’ on High: Womanist Sermonic Practice in Literature and Music	0
“A Resurrection That is beyond Death”: African Diasporic Healing Rituals in Toni Morrison’s Paradise	0
“Ah Reckon It’s Enough”: Black Feminism, Racial Capitalism, and Embodied Black Economies in The Chip Woman’s Fortune	0
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Refusing to Be Made Whole: Disability in Black Women’s Writing. Anna LaQuawn Hinton	0
Lowe and Behold: Evviva Maestro Giovanni!	0
Latina Histories and Cultures: Feminist Readings and Recoveries of Archival Knowledge. Edited by Montse Feu and Yolanda Padilla	0
Kindred Beholden-ness: A New Name for Kinship, from Octavia Butler to Ocean Vuong	0
A Time of Plague: Allegory, Seriality, and Historicity in Samuel R. Delany’s Return to Nevèrÿon	0
Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the World. Tavia Nyong’o	0
Collective Care as Affective Justice in Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy	0
The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature. Edited by John Ernest	0
To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship. Elizabeth McHenry	0
The Trembling Network or a Sociology of Feeling: W. E. B. Du Bois’sThe Quest of the Silver Fleece	0
Settling the Imagined West: Victor LaValle’s Lone Women , Black Women, and the Revision of The Frontier Myth	0
Irreconcilable Loss in Cristina Henríquez’sThe World in Half	0
Blue Village: A.B. Spellman, Joel Oppenheimer, and the Poetics of Interracial Community	0
Writing “the Inaudible Voice of It All”: John Lowe’s Crosscurrents	0