{"title":"Queering Ethnic Rites of Passage: Transparent and One Day at a Time","authors":"Stephanie M. Pridgeon","doi":"10.1093/melus/mlac019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlac019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"10 1","pages":"22 - 44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76057179","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":"Marronage or Underground? The Black Geographies of Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Water Dancer","authors":"Nicole Waller","doi":"10.1093/melus/mlac021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlac021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"1 1","pages":"45 - 70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88314950","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}
Abstract:This introduction provides an overview of the special issue that focuses on the interconnections of Black women’s literary studies with the crises of COVID-19 and ongoing anti-Black violence. More specifically, it considers how the work of three renowned writers, Paule Marshall, Ntozake Shange, and Toni Morrison—which collectively spans over fifty years—offers models for how to reimagine our current circumstances and create more just futures in our national and global communities. The essay identifies and expounds on the overarching question of the special issue: how does the work of Marshall, Shange, and Morrison speak to contemporary affairs and concerns? By engaging this question, this collection of essays offers new insights about these women’s writing in particular and expands the corpus of scholarship on Black women’s writing in general. In the aftermath of the passing of these writers, a collective reappraisal of their oeuvres is a timely and fitting tribute, as each of their bodies of work reveals that they long have engaged concerns about Black people’s encounters with systemic barriers that have laid the foundation for the current twinned crises of anti-Black violence and the disproportionate impact of COVID-19.
{"title":"Guest Editors’ Introduction—Visionary Praxis: Paule Marshall’s, Ntozake Shange’s, and Toni Morrison’s Foresight concerning Sick Violence and Violent Sickness","authors":"Robin S. Brooks, Meina Yates-Richard","doi":"10.1093/melus/mlac014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlac014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This introduction provides an overview of the special issue that focuses on the interconnections of Black women’s literary studies with the crises of COVID-19 and ongoing anti-Black violence. More specifically, it considers how the work of three renowned writers, Paule Marshall, Ntozake Shange, and Toni Morrison—which collectively spans over fifty years—offers models for how to reimagine our current circumstances and create more just futures in our national and global communities. The essay identifies and expounds on the overarching question of the special issue: how does the work of Marshall, Shange, and Morrison speak to contemporary affairs and concerns? By engaging this question, this collection of essays offers new insights about these women’s writing in particular and expands the corpus of scholarship on Black women’s writing in general. In the aftermath of the passing of these writers, a collective reappraisal of their oeuvres is a timely and fitting tribute, as each of their bodies of work reveals that they long have engaged concerns about Black people’s encounters with systemic barriers that have laid the foundation for the current twinned crises of anti-Black violence and the disproportionate impact of COVID-19.","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"24 1","pages":"1 - 13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75536145","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":"The Black Utopia: Secret Societies and Time Travel in W. E. B. Du Bois and Sutton E. Griggs","authors":"Andy Harper","doi":"10.1093/melus/mlac015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlac015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74990142","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}
B. Beckett, Ryan A. Charlton, Catherine Keyser, L. Wilson, Alec Pollak, Jennifer Cho, Zoë Rodine, Jason Berger, Nicole Waller, Andy Harper, Stephanie M. Pridgeon, Carmen Merport Quiñones, Donald Weber, F. M. Duran
{"title":"\"Doomed by the Confusion in Their Design\": Racialized Urban Space, Redlining, and Monolithic Whiteness in Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones","authors":"B. Beckett, Ryan A. Charlton, Catherine Keyser, L. Wilson, Alec Pollak, Jennifer Cho, Zoë Rodine, Jason Berger, Nicole Waller, Andy Harper, Stephanie M. Pridgeon, Carmen Merport Quiñones, Donald Weber, F. M. Duran","doi":"10.1093/melus/mlac005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlac005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"25 1","pages":"1 - 106 - 107 - 129 - 130 - 153 - 154 - 174 - 175 - 199 - 200 - 21 - 22 - 225 - 226 - 230 - 231 - 23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74224317","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":"Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature. Jenna Grace Sciuto","authors":"L. Wilson","doi":"10.1093/melus/mlac009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlac009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79938409","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}
Abstract:This essay reads Toni Morrison’s A Mercy (2008) to reexamine the biopolitical role of proto-epidemiological discourse in the seventeenth-century Atlantic world. By focusing on the intersecting stories of malaise in the novel—The Great Plague of 1665 in London, smallpox outbreaks in colonial America, and disease and mass deaths on slave ships—I unpack the ways in which disease and its management played a role not only in preserving racial formations but also in producing them. Morrison’s repudiation of the notion of disease as a social equalizer forms the core of the essay’s inquiry, as I argue that materialist and historicist readings of early Atlantic world pandemics can help theorize the differential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on raced subjects. The essay also probes the interpretive possibilities of rereading medical histories by centering the narratives of Black and Indigenous women and examining the ways in which such an oppositional reading may mitigate the archival and conceptual gaps in our understanding of both disease and body normativity. Woven into these argumentative strands is a critical consideration of historical method. The essay demonstrates that Morrison’s rendering of medical history is more expansive than that of the conventional historical novel, as her attempt is not to recreate accounts of early American pandemics but rather to disrupt a linear progress narrative of Western medicine.
{"title":"The Diseased Body Politic of Early America in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy","authors":"Srimayee Basu","doi":"10.1093/melus/mlac012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlac012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay reads Toni Morrison’s A Mercy (2008) to reexamine the biopolitical role of proto-epidemiological discourse in the seventeenth-century Atlantic world. By focusing on the intersecting stories of malaise in the novel—The Great Plague of 1665 in London, smallpox outbreaks in colonial America, and disease and mass deaths on slave ships—I unpack the ways in which disease and its management played a role not only in preserving racial formations but also in producing them. Morrison’s repudiation of the notion of disease as a social equalizer forms the core of the essay’s inquiry, as I argue that materialist and historicist readings of early Atlantic world pandemics can help theorize the differential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on raced subjects. The essay also probes the interpretive possibilities of rereading medical histories by centering the narratives of Black and Indigenous women and examining the ways in which such an oppositional reading may mitigate the archival and conceptual gaps in our understanding of both disease and body normativity. Woven into these argumentative strands is a critical consideration of historical method. The essay demonstrates that Morrison’s rendering of medical history is more expansive than that of the conventional historical novel, as her attempt is not to recreate accounts of early American pandemics but rather to disrupt a linear progress narrative of Western medicine.","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"65 1","pages":"162 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74438804","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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