Melus

Papers
(The median citation count of Melus is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Nurturing Transatlantic Ties: In Memory of John4
Honoring the Legacy of Jean Fagan Yellin (1930-2023)2
“There but Not There”:Green Islandand the Transpacific Dimensions of Representing White Terror2
Contributors2
Out of the Darkroom: Michael S. Harper’s Photographs1
Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte. Christopher Pexa1
Monstrous “Elsewheres”: The Horror Spatial Imaginary in Black Fiction and Film1
Laughing through the Mask in Invisible Man1
“Say, Who Owns This House?”: US Violence, Indebtedness, and Care in Toni Morrison’s Home1
Synaesthetics of Transracial Adoption in Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth1
Audiovisual Materiality and the Technopoetical Gesture in Recent Black Poetry and Performance1
Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora. Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández1
The House Where My Soul Lives: The Life of Margaret Walker. Maryemma Graham1
Revolting Indolence: The Politics of Slacking, Lounging, and Daydreaming in Queer and Trans Latinx Culture. Marcos Gonsalez0
Metanarratives of Slavery0
Bernard Malamud at the Edge of Ethnic Humor0
Friendship in the Time of COINTELPRO: Clarence Major and Dingane Joe Goncalves0
“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, Sing0
Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions. David S. Roh0
Black Citizenship and the American Landscape in the Poetry of The Colored American (1837-41)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 Firespitter0
Introduction: “Dear Colleague”: Divergent Futurisms and the History of Black Speculation in Crisis0
Chicano-Chicana Americana: Pop Culture Pluralism Starring Anthony Quinn, Katy Jurado, Robert Beltran, and Lupe Ontiveros. Anthony Macías0
A Response to Mohja Kahf0
From Homo Sacer to the Remnant: Reclaiming Orphanhood in Sun Yung Shin’s Unbearable Splendor0
Living through Atomization: Runit Dome, Radioactive Matter, and Poetry of Digestion0
Staging A Chinese American Tragedy: Edith Eaton’s “The Wisdom of the New”0
Visualizing Transgenerational Memories of the Holocaust in Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz: An Interview with Ari Richter0
Contributors0
Collective Care as Affective Justice in Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy0
Capital Citizens: Disinvesting the Individual in Helena María Viramontes’sUnder the Feet of Jesus0
A Time of Plague: Allegory, Seriality, and Historicity in Samuel R. Delany’s Return to Nevèrÿon0
The Trembling Network or a Sociology of Feeling: W. E. B. Du Bois’sThe Quest of the Silver Fleece0
A Poetics of Extraterritoriality in Edwidge Danticat’s Refugee Writing0
Going Underground: Race, Space, and the Subterranean in the Nineteenth-Century United States. Lara Langer Cohen0
Contributors0
Letters from Filadelfia: Early Latino Literature and the Trans-American Elite. Rodrigo Lazo0
“That Bit of Art”: Love, Failure, and Maud Martha0
“Then Her World Exploded”: Science-Fictional Reading and Ta-Nehisi Coates’sBetween the World and Me0
Writing “the Inaudible Voice of It All”: John Lowe’s Crosscurrents0
Autopic (Re)membering: Racial Exclusion in Everything I Never Told You0
To Share It: Black Speculation in Jamaica Kincaid’s Gardens0
“The Lack of Coherence is a Powerful Disobedience”: A Conversation with Ocean Vuong0
Reading Arab American Literary Variations: An Interview with Rajia Hassib0
For Pleasure: Race, Experimentalism, and Aesthetics. Rachel Jane Carroll0
Submission Information0
A Violent Peace: Race, U. S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific. Christine Hong0
Writing Haitian and Dominican Relations as Postmemory in Jasminne Mendez’s and Ana Belique’s Young Adult and Children’s Books0
Reading with the Grain: The Ecologies ofThe Lowland0
“Tucson, City of Thieves”: Biocapitalism and Land Dispossession in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead0
Coyolxauqui’s Bent Heart: An Interview with Richard Villegas, Jr.0
Correction to: As Good as Comedy Gold: Tracing Jewish Heritage and Humor in the Works of Joseph Heller0
The Weight of the Past: Mixed-Race Materiality in Post-Racial Asian American Literature0
As Good as Comedy Gold: Tracing Jewish Heritage and Humor in the Works of Joseph Heller0
Between Two Emancipations: Louise Erdrich and the Politics of Disavowal0
Narrating Cross-Border Migration, Writing Subjects without History: On Luis Alberto Urrea’sThe Devil’s Highwayand Francisco Cantú’sThe Line Becomes a River0
“Ah Reckon It’s Enough”: Black Feminism, Racial Capitalism, and Embodied Black Economies in The Chip Woman’s Fortune0
“Uncertain Thresholds”: An Interview with Carmen Maria Machado0
Problematizing the Multiracial Promised Land: Multiracial Settler Belonging in Hawaiʻi in the Asian American Literary Imagination0
Hiding in John Rechy’s Closet0
MELUS Book Award Winners0
Kindred Beholden-ness: A New Name for Kinship, from Octavia Butler to Ocean Vuong0
Mothers, Mobility, Narrative: Maternality in US Literature. Mary Jo Bona0
Contributors0
Reckoning with Restorative Justice: Hawai‘i Women’s Prison Writing. Leanne Trapedo Sims0
Thoughts on My Friend John Lowe0
(Re)Worlding the Plantation: Vulnerability and Regeneration in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones and Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s Blu’s Hangi0
The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature. Edited by John Ernest0
Confounded by Time and Love: An Interview with Jericho Brown0
The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora. Edited by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Lan P. Duong, and Viet Thanh Nguyen0
Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project. J. J. Butts0
Fugitive Figurations of Chronic Disability: Reconstructing Black Disability Politics in Frances Harper’s Iola Leroy0
Lowe and Behold: Evviva Maestro Giovanni!0
Correction to: “Say, Who Owns This House?”: US Violence, Indebtedness, and Care in Toni Morrison’s Home0
Entombed Voices0
Urban Homelands: Writing the Native City from Oklahoma. Lindsey Claire Smith0
Black Radicalism after the Haitian Revolution: Langston Hughes’s Emperor of Haiti0
Indigenous Textual Cultures: Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire. Tony Ballantyne, Lachy Paterson, and Angela Wanhalla0
Matters of Inscription: Reading Figures of Latinidad. Christina A. León0
To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other. Viet Thanh Nguyen0
Invisibility and Seeing the Black Dead in Jason Mott’s Hell of a Book0
The Thirdspace of the Borderlands in Luis Alberto Urrea’sThe House of Broken Angels: A Geocritical Reading0
The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown. Martha J. Cutter0
Cartographic Memory: Social Movement Activism and the Production of Space. Juan Herrera0
Postindian Aesthetics: Affirming Indigenous Literary Sovereignty. Debra K. S. Barker and Connie A. Jacobs, Editors0
The Schlemiel and the Messianic in Michael Chabon’sThe Yiddish Policemen’s Unionand Nicole Krauss’sForest Dark0
“A Poem Is a Gesture toward Home”: Formal Plurality and Black/Queer Critical Hope in Jericho Brown’s Duplex Form0
Stories from the Provision Grounds: Plantation Futures and Black Survival in Charles Chesnutt and Nnedi Okorafor0
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 Civilization0
Contributors0
Settling the Imagined West: Victor LaValle’s Lone Women , Black Women, and the Revision of The Frontier Myth0
Fatherhood in the Borderlands: A Daughter’s Slow Approach. Domino Renee Perez0
Novel Subjects: Authorship as Radical Self-Care in Multiethnic American Narratives. Leah A. Milne0
Latina Histories and Cultures: Feminist Readings and Recoveries of Archival Knowledge. Edited by Montse Feu and Yolanda Padilla0
To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship. Elizabeth McHenry0
Class Interruptions: Inequality and Division in African Diasporic Women’s Fiction. Robin Brooks0
Chinese Exclusion, Indigeneity, and Settler-Colonial Refusal in C Pam Zhang’sHow Much of These Hills is Gold0
Contributors0
Black Celebrity: Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists. Emily Ruth Rutter0
Indian Removal and the Plantation South: Cherokee Present-Absence in Three Neo-Slave Narratives0
Introduction: Honoring John Wharton Lowe0
Fugitive Time: Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond. Matthew Omelsky0
Sutton Griggs’s Speculative Pedagogy0
We Are the Stars: Colonizing and Decolonizing the Oceti Sakowin Literary Tradition. Sarah Hernandez0
“No Future to Be Had”: Journeying toward Death in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon0
Debating #OwnVoices: Racial/Ethnic Authenticity, Controlling Images, and Gang Life in Erika T. Wurth’s You Who Enter Here0
“This Sea of Upturned Faces”: The Rhetorical Role of Audience in Frederick Douglass’s Constitutional Interpretation at Midcentury0
John Wharton Lowe, Scholar of the Southern Sublime0
Welcome to Oxnard: Race, Place, and Chicana Adolescence in Michele Serros’s Writings. Cristina Herrera0
Calling in The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf on Indigeneity0
“Embrace Diversity / Or Be Destroyed”: John Steinbeck, Octavia Butler, and the Plantationocene0
Integrity’s Tombstone: Spider-Man’s Forgotten Black Father Figure, Joe Robertson0
Japanese Atmospheres and the Pleasures of Belonging: Winnifred Eaton and Sadakichi Hartmann0
Pedagogies of Black Horror0
Harriet Jacobs’s Text of Bodily Repetitions0
Criminal Genius in African American and US Literature, 1793-1845. Erin Forbes0
A Communitarian Politics of Pastiche: Transnational Feminism, Writing, and Citation in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being0
“For Those of Us Who Live at the Shoreline”: Rearticulating Social Value and Feminist Relation in the Poetics of Audre Lorde and Joy Harjo0
“An Actual Experience of Finality”: Melodramatic Retention and Generative Discomfort in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s An Octoroon0
The Laughing “No”: Interpellation, Expression, and Laughter inQuicksand0
The Makings and Unmakings of Americans: Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1879-1924. Cristina Stanciu0
Refusing to Be Made Whole: Disability in Black Women’s Writing. Anna LaQuawn Hinton0
Postmemory Workshops: Vietnamese American Poets, Refugee Memory Work, and Creative Writing0
Contributors0
Specters of Possibility: Quests for Freedom and Futurity in Michelle Cliff’s No Telephone to Heaven0
Color-blind Aesthetics in Manuel Muñoz: Reading Race in Form and Feeling0
Kiese Laymon and the Pedagogy of Revision0
Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right. Jordan S. Carroll0
Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics. Darieck Scott0
Loops, Loops, Loops: Torsion, Freedom, and Form in Tomás Rivera’s . . . y no se lo tragó la tierra0
Whose Genre? The Boundaries of Genre and the Criminalization of Blackness in Hagar's Daughter0
Possible Selves, Speculative Histories: Dinaw Mengestu and Colson Whitehead’s Narrative Fabulation0
Irreconcilable Loss in Cristina Henríquez’sThe World in Half0
Blue Village: A.B. Spellman, Joel Oppenheimer, and the Poetics of Interracial Community0
Taxidermy and the Environment in Cristina García’s The Agüero Sisters0
Vibrant Reading: A Transpacific Poetics of Filipinx American Vernacular Archives0
Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the World. Tavia Nyong’o0
Contributors0
Correction to: Harriet Jacobs’s Text of Bodily Repetitions0
The Violence of Economies of Dispossession in Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends0
“I Have Been in Sorrow’s Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots”: The Lived and Literary Labors of Zora Neale Hurston0
“Too Clean, Too White”: Resistance to the Racial Politics of Hygiene in Helena María Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus0
Intimate Eating: Racialized Spaces and Radical Futures. Anita Mannur0
Asian American Fiction after 1965: Transnational Fictions of Economic Mobility. Christopher T. Fan0
Conjuring the Haint: The Haunting Poetics of Black Women. drea brown0
Spatial Anxiety and Identity in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child and Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half0
Holding the Future on My Bed0
“I’m Leaving Evidence”: Traumatic Rememory, Identity, and the Body in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora0
Other Lovings: An AfroAsian American Theory of Life. Seulghee Lee0
A Story in Sound: The Unpublished Writings of Sidney Bechet0
Irish American Fiction from World War II to JFK: Anxiety, Assimilation, and Activism. Beth O’Leary Anish0
Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora and Comics. Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo0
“A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place”: Reading Minimalism, Place, and Gender from Anzia Yezierska to Marie Kondo0
“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 Saints0
Racial Performance and Affect in Erika Lopez’s Flaming Iguanas: An All-Girl Road Novel Thing0
Vincent Toro’s Hurricane Formalism0
Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy. Glenda Carpio0
Journal Information0
Vertamae Grosvenor’s Revolutionary Recipes0
Indigeneity Buried, Then Unearthed, in Mohja Kahf’s “Fayetteville as in Fate” and The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf0
Jewish Cultural Studies. Simon J. Bronner0
Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics. V. Jo Hsu0
“I Am Unhide-able”: Conditions of Visibility in The Poet X0
New Book Review Editor0
Imagining Aerial Surveillance: (Eco)Poetics and War in Solmaz Sharif’s Look0
Magical Habits. Monica Huerta0
Finding Jewish American Identity in Judaism: Max Gross’s The Lost Shtetl as Midrash0
Contributors0
Geographies of Flight: Phyllis Wheatley to Octavia Butler. William Merrill Decker0
Respectable Futurity and Black Girlhood’s Stolen Time in Ntozake Shange’s Betsey Brown0
Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures. Kelly Wisecup0
Never Die Alone: Donald Goines, Black Iconicity, and Série Noire0
Literary Reparation: Lists, Till, and The Trees0
Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction. Jerry Rafiki Jenkins0
Catholicism as Environmental Protest in Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima and Ana Castillo’s So Far from God0
An Ocean of Becoming: Routed Motherhood in Lisa Ko’sThe Leavers0
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 Givers0
Falling Down and Apart: Post-Orientalism and Iranian American Identity in Sons and Other Flammable Objects0
“I Knew Then Who I Was. I Was a Negro”: Black Armed Defense in Walter White’s A Man Called White0
The Ambivalent Elegies of Gwendolyn Brooks0
Taking the Blues Away: The Second Edition of The New Negro0
On Transcultural Presence and Reparative Reading Practice: Rethinking Belonging and Transcultural Transformation in Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents0
Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures. Jose O. Fernandez0
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