{"title":"The Kosher Capones: A History of Chicago’s Jewish Gangsters. Joe Kraus","authors":"Sean Martin","doi":"10.1093/melus/mlab050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlab050","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89683257","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:As an unapologetically Black feminist artist, Ntozake Shange furthered the cause of black girl representation on Broadway stages with the 1976 debut of for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf. Shange’s award-winning choreopoem eschews the masculinist liberation discourse of the Black Power era and instead centers the concerns of Black girls within the freedom struggle. Using twenty poems interlaced with dance and music, Shange illuminates the subjectivity of seven “colored girls” who experience sexual, emotional, and physical violence in their communities. Committed to the health and safety of the entire Black community, Shange concludes the performance with a ritual dance to foster unity and community healing from violence. Her early Black feminist intervention serves as a foundation for the artistic work of Black Lives Matter activists today, many of whom continue to use ritual performances to promote community healing in the wake of white-authored violence. Black Lives Matter movement artists and activists Gorgeous Mother Karma Gucci, Adonte Prodigy, and Amya Miyake-Mugler, for example, performed ritual Voguing at a Chicago demonstration on 3 June 2020 to bring greater visibility to the intracultural violence reaped upon Black queer and transgender girls. Their ritual Voguing, which I situate as Black queer feminist praxis in motion, reimagines the Black radical tradition as collective liberation. Collectively, the work of Shange, Gucci, Prodigy, and Mugler affirms the vital truth that none of us are free until all of us are free.
{"title":"Violence, Ritual, and Vogue: Black Queer Feminist Praxis in Motion","authors":"L. L. Forsgren","doi":"10.1093/melus/mlac004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlac004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:As an unapologetically Black feminist artist, Ntozake Shange furthered the cause of black girl representation on Broadway stages with the 1976 debut of for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf. Shange’s award-winning choreopoem eschews the masculinist liberation discourse of the Black Power era and instead centers the concerns of Black girls within the freedom struggle. Using twenty poems interlaced with dance and music, Shange illuminates the subjectivity of seven “colored girls” who experience sexual, emotional, and physical violence in their communities. Committed to the health and safety of the entire Black community, Shange concludes the performance with a ritual dance to foster unity and community healing from violence. Her early Black feminist intervention serves as a foundation for the artistic work of Black Lives Matter activists today, many of whom continue to use ritual performances to promote community healing in the wake of white-authored violence. Black Lives Matter movement artists and activists Gorgeous Mother Karma Gucci, Adonte Prodigy, and Amya Miyake-Mugler, for example, performed ritual Voguing at a Chicago demonstration on 3 June 2020 to bring greater visibility to the intracultural violence reaped upon Black queer and transgender girls. Their ritual Voguing, which I situate as Black queer feminist praxis in motion, reimagines the Black radical tradition as collective liberation. Collectively, the work of Shange, Gucci, Prodigy, and Mugler affirms the vital truth that none of us are free until all of us are free.","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"15 1","pages":"37 - 53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81913301","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}
Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska’s Indigenous and Asian Entanglements. PeguesJuliana Hu. U of North Carolina P, 2021. xvii + 212 Pages. $95.00 hardcover; $32.95 paper.
{"title":"Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska’s Indigenous and Asian Entanglements. Juliana Hu Pegues","authors":"Charlton R.","doi":"10.1093/melus/mlac011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlac011","url":null,"abstract":"<span><strong>Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska’s Indigenous and Asian Entanglements</strong>. PeguesJuliana Hu. U of North Carolina P, 2021. xvii + 212 Pages. $95.00 hardcover; $32.95 paper. </span>","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138536328","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":"Land Uprising: Native Story Power and the Insurgent Horizons of Latinx Indigeneity. Simón Ventura Trujillo","authors":"F. M. Duran","doi":"10.1093/melus/mlac006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlac006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90326940","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}
Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance. FergusonJeffrey B.. Afterword by HutchinsonGeorge B.. Edited and with a foreword by SollorsWerner. Rutgers UP, 2021. xiii +144 pages. $65.00 cloth; $19.95 paper.
种族与抵抗的修辞。FergusonJeffrey B . .哈金森后记乔治·B..由SollorsWerner编辑并作序。罗格斯大学，2021年。十三+144页。布65.00美元;19.95美元。
{"title":"Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance. Jeffrey B. Ferguson. Afterword by George B. Hutchinson. Edited and with a Foreword by Werner Sollors","authors":"Keyser C.","doi":"10.1093/melus/mlac007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlac007","url":null,"abstract":"<span>Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance. FergusonJeffrey B.. Afterword by HutchinsonGeorge B.. Edited and with a foreword by SollorsWerner. Rutgers UP, 2021. xiii +144 pages. $65.00 cloth; $19.95 paper.</span>","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138536327","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:Toni Morrison spent much of her career detailing the unpredictability of African American existence within a racist society, with a special focus on patriarchal violence and medical apartheid against women’s bodies. Yet Morrison also limns out alternative modes of healing within a Black metacultural framework that moves between Nigeria, Brazil, and Egypt. As we move forward from the COVID-19 crisis, research has suggested that training more African American doctors, nurses, and physician assistants might curtail medical racism. Morrison’s fiction looks to a more basic level in which love of the bodies of African American people is at the center of healing. This article therefore discusses medical racism and applies Morrison’s lessons to the COVID-19 moment that her writing trenchantly foreshadows. It focuses on three healers who elide the medical establishment to embody a metacultural ethics of healing: Baby Suggs (in Beloved [1987]), Consolata Sosa (in Paradise [1997]), and Ethel Fordham (in Home [2012]). Morrison fuses an African-diasporic framework with embodied new knowledge that allows individuals to gain insight and agency in a white-dominant medical world that still refuses to endorse the idea that Black people’s bodies and psyches really do matter. An examination of these healers’ practices therefore sheds light on the COVID-19 moment by suggesting ways that African American people can stay “woke” and have agency when encountering and navigating traditional health care systems, which even today view the bodies of African Americans as fodder for medical experiments, immune to disease, and not in need of ethical and humane medical care.
{"title":"When Black Lives Really Do Matter: Subverting Medical Racism through African-Diasporic Healing Rituals in Toni Morrison’s Fiction","authors":"M. Cutter","doi":"10.1093/melus/mlac001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlac001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Toni Morrison spent much of her career detailing the unpredictability of African American existence within a racist society, with a special focus on patriarchal violence and medical apartheid against women’s bodies. Yet Morrison also limns out alternative modes of healing within a Black metacultural framework that moves between Nigeria, Brazil, and Egypt. As we move forward from the COVID-19 crisis, research has suggested that training more African American doctors, nurses, and physician assistants might curtail medical racism. Morrison’s fiction looks to a more basic level in which love of the bodies of African American people is at the center of healing. This article therefore discusses medical racism and applies Morrison’s lessons to the COVID-19 moment that her writing trenchantly foreshadows. It focuses on three healers who elide the medical establishment to embody a metacultural ethics of healing: Baby Suggs (in Beloved [1987]), Consolata Sosa (in Paradise [1997]), and Ethel Fordham (in Home [2012]). Morrison fuses an African-diasporic framework with embodied new knowledge that allows individuals to gain insight and agency in a white-dominant medical world that still refuses to endorse the idea that Black people’s bodies and psyches really do matter. An examination of these healers’ practices therefore sheds light on the COVID-19 moment by suggesting ways that African American people can stay “woke” and have agency when encountering and navigating traditional health care systems, which even today view the bodies of African Americans as fodder for medical experiments, immune to disease, and not in need of ethical and humane medical care.","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"97 1","pages":"208 - 234"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75933266","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":"Drowning out Karen in The Chosen Place, The Timeless People","authors":"Amanda Ellis","doi":"10.1093/melus/mlac002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlac002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"44 1","pages":"54 - 74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78790193","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}
MELUS welcomes essays and interviews of interest to those concerned with the multi-ethnic scope of literature in the United States. As the publication of a society of writers, researchers, and teachers, the journal is open to all scholarly methods and theoretical approaches. MELUS seeks, above all, to publish essays that advance ongoing critical conversations about the theoretical, historical, literary, and cultural contexts of multi-ethnic literature, film, and other kinds of texts.
{"title":"Submission Information","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/melus/mlab048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlab048","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">MELUS</span> welcomes essays and interviews of interest to those concerned with the multi-ethnic scope of literature in the United States. As the publication of a society of writers, researchers, and teachers, the journal is open to all scholarly methods and theoretical approaches. <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">MELUS</span> seeks, above all, to publish essays that advance ongoing critical conversations about the theoretical, historical, literary, and cultural contexts of multi-ethnic literature, film, and other kinds of texts.</span>","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"83 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138536314","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}
José A. de la Garza Valenzuela (delagv@illinois.edu) is assistant professor of Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and faculty affiliate in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, and the Department of English. His work focuses on Chicanx literature with attention to how the state negotiates the possibility of queer citizenship by producing legally bearing fictions about migration, refuge, and asylum. His research on Arturo Islas has been awarded the Frederick Cervantes Premio by the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies and appeared in Latino Studies. He is currently at work on a book manuscript tentatively titled Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions.
jos A. dela Garza Valenzuela (delagv@illinois.edu)是伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校拉丁/拉丁裔研究助理教授，也是批评与解释理论单元、性别与妇女研究系和英语系的教员。他的作品主要集中在芝加哥文学，关注国家如何通过制作有关移民，避难和庇护的合法小说来协商酷儿公民身份的可能性。他关于Arturo Islas的研究被墨西哥裔美国人和墨西哥裔美国人研究协会授予Frederick Cervantes Premio奖，并发表在《拉丁裔研究》杂志上。他目前正在写一本书的手稿，暂定名为《法律意义上的酷儿:布朗公民身份和其他合法小说》。
{"title":"Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/melus/mlab046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlab046","url":null,"abstract":"<span><strong>José A. de la Garza Valenzuela</strong> (delagv@illinois.edu) is assistant professor of Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and faculty affiliate in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, and the Department of English. His work focuses on Chicanx literature with attention to how the state negotiates the possibility of queer citizenship by producing legally bearing fictions about migration, refuge, and asylum. His research on Arturo Islas has been awarded the Frederick Cervantes Premio by the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies and appeared in <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Latino Studies</span>. He is currently at work on a book manuscript tentatively titled <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions</span>.</span>","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138536301","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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