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“There but Not There”:Green Islandand the Transpacific Dimensions of Representing White Terror	3
Nurturing Transatlantic Ties: In Memory of John	3
Laughing through the Mask in Invisible Man	3
Honoring the Legacy of Jean Fagan Yellin (1930-2023)	3
Audiovisual Materiality and the Technopoetical Gesture in Recent Black Poetry and Performance	2
The House Where My Soul Lives: The Life of Margaret Walker. Maryemma Graham	1
Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora. Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández	1
Writing the Survivor: The Rape Novel in Late Twentieth-Century American Fiction. Robin E. Field	1
Insurgencies fromThere There	1
Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte. Christopher Pexa	1
“Say, Who Owns This House?”: US Violence, Indebtedness, and Care in Toni Morrison’s Home	1
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Violence, Ritual, and Vogue: Black Queer Feminist Praxis in Motion	1
“A Poem Is a Gesture toward Home”: Formal Plurality and Black/Queer Critical Hope in Jericho Brown’s Duplex Form	1
The Black Utopia: Secret Societies and Time Travel in W. E. B. Du Bois and Sutton E. Griggs	1
Monstrous “Elsewheres”: The Horror Spatial Imaginary in Black Fiction and Film	1
A Response to Mohja Kahf	1
Vibrant Reading: A Transpacific Poetics of Filipinx American Vernacular Archives	1
Narrating Cross-Border Migration, Writing Subjects without History: On Luis Alberto Urrea’sThe Devil’s Highwayand Francisco Cantú’sThe Line Becomes a River	0
Irish American Fiction from World War II to JFK: Anxiety, Assimilation, and Activism. Beth O’Leary Anish	0
“Too Clean, Too White”: Resistance to the Racial Politics of Hygiene in Helena María Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus	0
On Opacity: Toni Morrison’s and Paule Marshall’s Narrative Vision Therapy	0
Writing across the Color Line: U.S. Print Culture and the Rise of Ethnic Literature, 1877-1920. Lucas A. Dietrich	0
“But You’re Not at All like Bertha”: Contemporary (Black) Trans* Studies and Richard Wright’s “Man of All Work”	0
Between Two Emancipations: Louise Erdrich and the Politics of Disavowal	0

“Necessarily Hidden Truth(s)”: Documenting Queer Migrant Experience in Rigoberto González’s Crossing Vines	0
Jewish Cultural Studies. Simon J. Bronner	0
“A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place”: Reading Minimalism, Place, and Gender from Anzia Yezierska to Marie Kondo	0
“I’m Leaving Evidence”: Traumatic Rememory, Identity, and the Body in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora	0
Teaching Jewish American Literature. Roberta Rosenberg and Rachel Rubinstein	0
A Communitarian Politics of Pastiche: Transnational Feminism, Writing, and Citation in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being	0
Queering Ethnic Rites of Passage: Transparent and One Day at a Time	0
Black Insecurity at the End of the World	0
“Nothing Made Them Change Their Minds about the Medical Industry”: Medical Abuse, Incarceration, and Healing in Toni Morrison’sHome	0
Catholicism as Environmental Protest in Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima and Ana Castillo’s So Far from God	0
Novel Subjects: Authorship as Radical Self-Care in Multiethnic American Narratives. Leah A. Milne	0
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States. Maya Schenwar, Joe Macaré, and Alana Yu-Lan Price	0
Taxidermy and the Environment in Cristina García’s The Agüero Sisters	0
“It’s Not My Freedom or Free”: The Big Box and Toni Morrison’s Meditations on Violence, Justice, and Power	0
Writing “the Inaudible Voice of It All”: John Lowe’s Crosscurrents	0
Correction to: As Good as Comedy Gold: Tracing Jewish Heritage and Humor in the Works of Joseph Heller	0
Asian American Fiction after 1965: Transnational Fictions of Economic Mobility. Christopher T. Fan	0
“This Sea of Upturned Faces”: The Rhetorical Role of Audience in Frederick Douglass’s Constitutional Interpretation at Midcentury	0
“I Knew Then Who I Was. I Was a Negro”: Black Armed Defense in Walter White’s A Man Called White	0
Black Celebrity: Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists. Emily Ruth Rutter	0
Metanarratives of Slavery	0
“We Were Born from Beauty”: Dis/Inheriting Genealogies of Refugee and Queer Shame in Ocean Vuong’sOn Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous	0
The Political Arrays of American Indian Literary History. James H. Cox	0
As Good as Comedy Gold: Tracing Jewish Heritage and Humor in the Works of Joseph Heller	0
Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions. David S. Roh	0
The Ambivalent Elegies of Gwendolyn Brooks	0
Friendship in the Time of COINTELPRO: Clarence Major and Dingane Joe Goncalves	0
Postmemory Workshops: Vietnamese American Poets, Refugee Memory Work, and Creative Writing	0
The Routledge Introduction to Native American Literature. Drew Lopenzina	0
Problematizing the Multiracial Promised Land: Multiracial Settler Belonging in Hawaiʻi in the Asian American Literary Imagination	0
From Homo Sacer to the Remnant: Reclaiming Orphanhood in Sun Yung Shin’s Unbearable Splendor	0
Geographies of Flight: Phyllis Wheatley to Octavia Butler. William Merrill Decker	0
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Blue Village: A.B. Spellman, Joel Oppenheimer, and the Poetics of Interracial Community	0
Marronage or Underground? The Black Geographies of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Water Dancer	0
Falling Down and Apart: Post-Orientalism and Iranian American Identity in Sons and Other Flammable Objects	0
Coyolxauqui’s Bent Heart: An Interview with Richard Villegas, Jr.	0
Bernard Malamud at the Edge of Ethnic Humor	0
Intimate Eating: Racialized Spaces and Radical Futures. Anita Mannur	0
Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project. J. J. Butts	0
Indian Removal and the Plantation South: Cherokee Present-Absence in Three Neo-Slave Narratives	0
Lowe and Behold: Evviva Maestro Giovanni!	0
The Diseased Body Politic of Early America in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy	0
Chicano-Chicana Americana: Pop Culture Pluralism Starring Anthony Quinn, Katy Jurado, Robert Beltran, and Lupe Ontiveros. Anthony Macías	0
Beyond Protecting “Life”: The Inverted Language of the Dead and Dying in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing	0
Letters from Filadelfia: Early Latino Literature and the Trans-American Elite. Rodrigo Lazo	0
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Techniques of Justice: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits and the Problem of Visualizing the Race	0
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Toni Morrison’sTheir Eyes Were Watching God	0

Other Looks: Chicana/o Responses to US Magazine Aesthetics	0
The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown. Martha J. Cutter	0
Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures. Kelly Wisecup	0
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A Story in Sound: The Unpublished Writings of Sidney Bechet	0
Indigeneity Buried, Then Unearthed, in Mohja Kahf’s “Fayetteville as in Fate” and The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf	0
The Law’s Business: Peculiar Profits in Edward Jones’sThe Known World	0
The Kosher Capones: A History of Chicago’s Jewish Gangsters. Joe Kraus	0
Guest Editors’ Introduction—Visionary Praxis: Paule Marshall’s, Ntozake Shange’s, and Toni Morrison’s Foresight concerning Sick Violence and Violent Sickness	0
Calling in The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf on Indigeneity	0
Color-blind Aesthetics in Manuel Muñoz: Reading Race in Form and Feeling	0
The Unhurried Hermeneutics of Anti-Black Violence in Toni Morrison’sParadise	0
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To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship. Elizabeth McHenry	0
Correction to: “Say, Who Owns This House?”: US Violence, Indebtedness, and Care in Toni Morrison’s Home	0
An Ocean of Becoming: Routed Motherhood in Lisa Ko’sThe Leavers	0
Invisibility and Seeing the Black Dead in Jason Mott’s Hell of a Book	0
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When Black Lives Really Do Matter: Subverting Medical Racism through African-Diasporic Healing Rituals in Toni Morrison’s Fiction	0
Drowning out Karen in The Chosen Place, The Timeless People	0
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Confounded by Time and Love: An Interview with Jericho Brown	0
Visualizing Transgenerational Memories of the Holocaust in Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz: An Interview with Ari Richter	0
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“Doomed by the Confusion in Their Design”: Racialized Urban Space, Redlining, and Monolithic Whiteness in Paule Marshall’s Brown Girl, Brownstones	0
The Laughing “No”: Interpellation, Expression, and Laughter inQuicksand	0
Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy. Glenda Carpio	0
Finding Jewish American Identity in Judaism: Max Gross’s The Lost Shtetl as Midrash	0
Possible Selves, Speculative Histories: Dinaw Mengestu and Colson Whitehead’s Narrative Fabulation	0
We Are the Stars: Colonizing and Decolonizing the Oceti Sakowin Literary Tradition. Sarah Hernandez	0
Getting to the Root of US Healthcare Injustices through Morrison’s Root Workers	0
Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro:Gloria Anzaldúa’s Response to 9/11	0
Off the Derech: Leaving Orthodox Judaism. Edited by Ezra Cappell and Jessica Lang	0
Never Die Alone: Donald Goines, Black Iconicity, and Série Noire	0
Indigenous Textual Cultures: Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire. Tony Ballantyne, Lachy Paterson, and Angela Wanhalla	0
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Kiese Laymon and the Pedagogy of Revision	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
A Violent Peace: Race, U. S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific. Christine Hong	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
Fatherhood in the Borderlands: A Daughter’s Slow Approach. Domino Renee Perez	0
Harriet Jacobs’s Text of Bodily Repetitions	0
Staging A Chinese American Tragedy: Edith Eaton’s “The Wisdom of the New”	0
“He Hopes They Have Disappeared”: Necro-elasticity and the Tyranny of the Present in Helena María Viramontes’s “The Cariboo Cafe”	0
Magical Habits. Monica Huerta	0
Loving Mean: Racialized Medicine and the Rise of Postwar Eugenics in Toni Morrison’sHome	0
Autopic (Re)membering: Racial Exclusion in Everything I Never Told You	0
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Collective Care as Affective Justice in Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy	0
Spatial Anxiety and Identity in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child and Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half	0
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From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture. Koritha Mitchell	0
A Poetics of Extraterritoriality in Edwidge Danticat’s Refugee Writing	0
The Thirdspace of the Borderlands in Luis Alberto Urrea’sThe House of Broken Angels: A Geocritical Reading	0
Black Radicalism after the Haitian Revolution: Langston Hughes’s Emperor of Haiti	0
“No Future to Be Had”: Journeying toward Death in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon	0
Living through Atomization: Runit Dome, Radioactive Matter, and Poetry of Digestion	0
Taking the Blues Away: The Second Edition of The New Negro	0
The Schlemiel and the Messianic in Michael Chabon’sThe Yiddish Policemen’s Unionand Nicole Krauss’sForest Dark	0
Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures. Jose O. Fernandez	0
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Intoxicating Blackness: Addiction and Ambivalent Sounds of Fugitive Life in James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”	0
Chinese Exclusion, Indigeneity, and Settler-Colonial Refusal in C Pam Zhang’sHow Much of These Hills is Gold	0
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A Time of Plague: Allegory, Seriality, and Historicity in Samuel R. Delany’s Return to Nevèrÿon	0
Thoughts on My Friend John Lowe	0
John Wharton Lowe, Scholar of the Southern Sublime	0
Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel. Mazen Naous	0
“Then Her World Exploded”: Science-Fictional Reading and Ta-Nehisi Coates’sBetween the World and Me	0
Reclaiming the Street in Toni Morrison’sJazz	0
Hiding in John Rechy’s Closet	0
Introduction: Honoring John Wharton Lowe	0
Latina Histories and Cultures: Feminist Readings and Recoveries of Archival Knowledge. Edited by Montse Feu and Yolanda Padilla	0
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Criminal Genius in African American and US Literature, 1793-1845. Erin Forbes	0
“Uncertain Thresholds”: An Interview with Carmen Maria Machado	0
The Violence of Economies of Dispossession in Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends	0
Capital Citizens: Disinvesting the Individual in Helena María Viramontes’sUnder the Feet of Jesus	0
“An Actual Experience of Finality”: Melodramatic Retention and Generative Discomfort in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s An Octoroon	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

On Transcultural Presence and Reparative Reading Practice: Rethinking Belonging and Transcultural Transformation in Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents	0
Postindian Aesthetics: Affirming Indigenous Literary Sovereignty. Debra K. S. Barker and Connie A. Jacobs, Editors	0
“I Am Unhide-able”: Conditions of Visibility in The Poet X	0
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For Pleasure: Race, Experimentalism, and Aesthetics. Rachel Jane Carroll	0
Land Uprising: Native Story Power and the Insurgent Horizons of Latinx Indigeneity. Simón Ventura Trujillo	0
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Japanese Atmospheres and the Pleasures of Belonging: Winnifred Eaton and Sadakichi Hartmann	0
Fugitive Figurations of Chronic Disability: Reconstructing Black Disability Politics in Frances Harper’s Iola Leroy	0
“Tucson, City of Thieves”: Biocapitalism and Land Dispossession in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead	0
The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature. Edited by John Ernest	0
The Weight of the Past: Mixed-Race Materiality in Post-Racial Asian American Literature	0
Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics. V. Jo Hsu	0
Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature. Jenna Grace Sciuto	0
The Trembling Network or a Sociology of Feeling: W. E. B. Du Bois’sThe Quest of the Silver Fleece	0
Welcome to Oxnard: Race, Place, and Chicana Adolescence in Michele Serros’s Writings. Cristina Herrera	0
The Makings and Unmakings of Americans: Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1879-1924. Cristina Stanciu	0
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Debating #OwnVoices: Racial/Ethnic Authenticity, Controlling Images, and Gang Life in Erika T. Wurth’s You Who Enter Here	0
Reckoning with Restorative Justice: Hawai‘i Women’s Prison Writing. Leanne Trapedo Sims	0
Letters from Filadelfia: Early Latino Literature and the Trans-American Elite. Rodrigo Lazo	0
Vertamae Grosvenor’s Revolutionary Recipes	0
Cartographic Memory: Social Movement Activism and the Production of Space. Juan Herrera	0
Revolting Indolence: The Politics of Slacking, Lounging, and Daydreaming in Queer and Trans Latinx Culture. Marcos Gonsalez	0
Reading with the Grain: The Ecologies ofThe Lowland	0
Literary Reparation: Lists, Till, and The Trees	0
Irreconcilable Loss in Cristina Henríquez’sThe World in Half	0
Urban Homelands: Writing the Native City from Oklahoma. Lindsey Claire Smith	0
Loops, Loops, Loops: Torsion, Freedom, and Form in Tomás Rivera’s . . . y no se lo tragó la tierra	0
Imagining Aerial Surveillance: (Eco)Poetics and War in Solmaz Sharif’s Look	0
Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance. Jeffrey B. Ferguson. Afterword by George B. Hutchinson. Edited and with a Foreword by Werner Sollors	0
Vincent Toro’s Hurricane Formalism	0
“I Have Been in Sorrow’s Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots”: The Lived and Literary Labors of Zora Neale Hurston	0
Janelle Monáe, Dirty Computers, and Embodied Posthumanism	0
Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska’s Indigenous and Asian Entanglements. Juliana Hu Pegues	0
“We Are Here”: Race, Gender, and Spaces of “Common Ground” in the Works of John Edgar Wideman, bell hooks, and Jesmyn Ward	0
Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora and Comics. Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo	0
Reading Arab American Literary Variations: An Interview with Rajia Hassib	0