{"title":"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 River","authors":"Adolfo Béjar Lara","doi":"10.1093/melus/mlac035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlac035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"99 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73844303","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}
The Arab American literary critic Steven Salaita states that Arab American literature, particularly the novel, is witnessing a remarkable upsurge and “is undergoing something of a qualitative and quantitative maturation” (2). Arab American literature gained prominence post-9/11, in a period when the Arab American community was being put under a critical lens (Fadda-Conrey 2014). According to Lisa Suhair Majaj,
{"title":"Reading Arab American Literary Variations: An Interview with Rajia Hassib","authors":"Ishak Berrebbah","doi":"10.1093/melus/mlac034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlac034","url":null,"abstract":"The Arab American literary critic Steven Salaita states that Arab American literature, particularly the novel, is witnessing a remarkable upsurge and “is undergoing something of a qualitative and quantitative maturation” (2). Arab American literature gained prominence post-9/11, in a period when the Arab American community was being put under a critical lens (Fadda-Conrey 2014). According to Lisa Suhair Majaj,","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"68 1","pages":"192 - 211"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91165304","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":"Indigenous Textual Cultures: Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire. Tony Ballantyne, Lachy Paterson, and Angela Wanhalla, editors","authors":"Jessica Rogers","doi":"10.1093/melus/mlac028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlac028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88580586","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":"Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions. David S. Roh","authors":"Kodai Abe","doi":"10.1093/melus/mlac025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlac025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78636740","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}
explores diverse and (predominately) first-person narrative accounts by African diaspora authors that foreground various forms of antebellum and postbellum captivity, including barriers to geographical and social mobility. The book focuses on narrative accounts while also demonstrating how “the inscribed rapport (spa-tial and social)” that such writings create “between author and reader is itself an occasion of dynamic and revisionist mapping.” A multi-genre study detailing “the geographies of the fugitive slave narrative and its descendants, the postslave and neo-slave narrative” (1), Decker argues that while a white Eurocentric literary tra-dition represents New World topography as open space free to peruse, writings by African Americans often portray that same New World topography as a series of traps both unsafe and unwelcoming. Challenging the oppressive effects of such entrapments, Decker contends that first-person writings of African diaspora authors “do more than reflect contours of captivity, constraint, and oppression” but suggest a “reinvented world proceeding from the first-person pronoun” (2). analysis the of
{"title":"Geographies of Flight: Phyllis Wheatley to Octavia Butler. William Merrill Decker","authors":"M. R. Hall","doi":"10.1093/melus/mlac026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlac026","url":null,"abstract":"explores diverse and (predominately) first-person narrative accounts by African diaspora authors that foreground various forms of antebellum and postbellum captivity, including barriers to geographical and social mobility. The book focuses on narrative accounts while also demonstrating how “the inscribed rapport (spa-tial and social)” that such writings create “between author and reader is itself an occasion of dynamic and revisionist mapping.” A multi-genre study detailing “the geographies of the fugitive slave narrative and its descendants, the postslave and neo-slave narrative” (1), Decker argues that while a white Eurocentric literary tra-dition represents New World topography as open space free to peruse, writings by African Americans often portray that same New World topography as a series of traps both unsafe and unwelcoming. Challenging the oppressive effects of such entrapments, Decker contends that first-person writings of African diaspora authors “do more than reflect contours of captivity, constraint, and oppression” but suggest a “reinvented world proceeding from the first-person pronoun” (2). analysis the of","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87823169","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":"\"We Were Born from Beauty\": Dis/Inheriting Genealogies of Refugee and Queer Shame in Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous","authors":"Jennifer Cho","doi":"10.1093/melus/mlac024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlac024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"15 5 1","pages":"130 - 153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84986503","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":"Insurgencies from There There","authors":"Jason Berger","doi":"10.1093/melus/mlac023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlac023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"41 1","pages":"175 - 199"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88583255","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}
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