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Nurturing Transatlantic Ties: In Memory of John	4
“There but Not There”:Green Islandand the Transpacific Dimensions of Representing White Terror	3
Honoring the Legacy of Jean Fagan Yellin (1930-2023)	3
The Black Utopia: Secret Societies and Time Travel in W. E. B. Du Bois and Sutton E. Griggs	2
Out of the Darkroom: Michael S. Harper’s Photographs	2
Laughing through the Mask in Invisible Man	1
The House Where My Soul Lives: The Life of Margaret Walker. Maryemma Graham	1
Submission Information	1
Audiovisual Materiality and the Technopoetical Gesture in Recent Black Poetry and Performance	1
Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora. Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández	1
“A Poem Is a Gesture toward Home”: Formal Plurality and Black/Queer Critical Hope in Jericho Brown’s Duplex Form	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
Monstrous “Elsewheres”: The Horror Spatial Imaginary in Black Fiction and Film	1
Falling Down and Apart: Post-Orientalism and Iranian American Identity in Sons and Other Flammable Objects	0
Letters from Filadelfia: Early Latino Literature and the Trans-American Elite. Rodrigo Lazo	0
Settling the Imagined West: Victor LaValle’s Lone Women, Black Women, and the Revision of The Frontier Myth	0
Friendship in the Time of COINTELPRO: Clarence Major and Dingane Joe Goncalves	0
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Racial Performance and Affect in Erika Lopez’s Flaming Iguanas: An All-Girl Road Novel Thing	0
“I Have Been in Sorrow’s Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots”: The Lived and Literary Labors of Zora Neale Hurston	0
Confounded by Time and Love: An Interview with Jericho Brown	0
“I Am Unhide-able”: Conditions of Visibility in The Poet X	0
Japanese Atmospheres and the Pleasures of Belonging: Winnifred Eaton and Sadakichi Hartmann	0
Reading with the Grain: The Ecologies ofThe Lowland	0

Novel Subjects: Authorship as Radical Self-Care in Multiethnic American Narratives. Leah A. Milne	0
Entombed Voices	0
Urban Homelands: Writing the Native City from Oklahoma. Lindsey Claire Smith	0
Beyond Protecting “Life”: The Inverted Language of the Dead and Dying in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing	0
Indigeneity Buried, Then Unearthed, in Mohja Kahf’s “Fayetteville as in Fate” and The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf	0
Possible Selves, Speculative Histories: Dinaw Mengestu and Colson Whitehead’s Narrative Fabulation	0
Introduction: Honoring John Wharton Lowe	0
Color-blind Aesthetics in Manuel Muñoz: Reading Race in Form and Feeling	0
Insurgencies fromThere There	0
Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska’s Indigenous and Asian Entanglements. Juliana Hu Pegues	0
Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora and Comics. Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo	0
The Schlemiel and the Messianic in Michael Chabon’sThe Yiddish Policemen’s Unionand Nicole Krauss’sForest Dark	0
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Spatial Anxiety and Identity in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child and Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half	0
“Doomed by the Confusion in Their Design”: Racialized Urban Space, Redlining, and Monolithic Whiteness in Paule Marshall’s Brown Girl, Brownstones	0
“Uncertain Thresholds”: An Interview with Carmen Maria Machado	0
Capital Citizens: Disinvesting the Individual in Helena María Viramontes’sUnder the Feet of Jesus	0
“Too Clean, Too White”: Resistance to the Racial Politics of Hygiene in Helena María Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus	0
“This Sea of Upturned Faces”: The Rhetorical Role of Audience in Frederick Douglass’s Constitutional Interpretation at Midcentury	0
Correction to: “Say, Who Owns This House?”: US Violence, Indebtedness, and Care in Toni Morrison’s Home	0
Refusing to Be Made Whole: Disability in Black Women’s Writing. Anna LaQuawn Hinton	0
Other Lovings: An AfroAsian American Theory of Life. Seulghee Lee	0
Between Two Emancipations: Louise Erdrich and the Politics of Disavowal	0
Writing “the Inaudible Voice of It All”: John Lowe’s Crosscurrents	0
Catholicism as Environmental Protest in Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima and Ana Castillo’s So Far from God	0
Asian American Fiction after 1965: Transnational Fictions of Economic Mobility. Christopher T. Fan	0
“Then Her World Exploded”: Science-Fictional Reading and Ta-Nehisi Coates’sBetween the World and Me	0
“I Knew Then Who I Was. I Was a Negro”: Black Armed Defense in Walter White’s A Man Called White	0
For Pleasure: Race, Experimentalism, and Aesthetics. Rachel Jane Carroll	0
A Poetics of Extraterritoriality in Edwidge Danticat’s Refugee Writing	0
“He Hopes They Have Disappeared”: Necro-elasticity and the Tyranny of the Present in Helena María Viramontes’s “The Cariboo Cafe”	0
Whose Genre? The Boundaries of Genre and the Criminalization of Blackness in Hagar's Daughter	0
Finding Jewish American Identity in Judaism: Max Gross’s The Lost Shtetl as Midrash	0
Kiese Laymon and the Pedagogy of Revision	0
Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics. V. Jo Hsu	0
Never Die Alone: Donald Goines, Black Iconicity, and Série Noire	0
Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions. David S. Roh	0
Narrating Cross-Border Migration, Writing Subjects without History: On Luis Alberto Urrea’sThe Devil’s Highwayand Francisco Cantú’sThe Line Becomes a River	0
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 Civilization	0
Marronage or Underground? The Black Geographies of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Water Dancer	0
Problematizing the Multiracial Promised Land: Multiracial Settler Belonging in Hawaiʻi in the Asian American Literary Imagination	0
The Trembling Network or a Sociology of Feeling: W. E. B. Du Bois’sThe Quest of the Silver Fleece	0
A Story in Sound: The Unpublished Writings of Sidney Bechet	0
Intimate Eating: Racialized Spaces and Radical Futures. Anita Mannur	0
The Weight of the Past: Mixed-Race Materiality in Post-Racial Asian American Literature	0
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Coyolxauqui’s Bent Heart: An Interview with Richard Villegas, Jr.	0
Welcome to Oxnard: Race, Place, and Chicana Adolescence in Michele Serros’s Writings. Cristina Herrera	0
Vincent Toro’s Hurricane Formalism	0
Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures. Jose O. Fernandez	0

Autopic (Re)membering: Racial Exclusion in Everything I Never Told You	0
Literary Reparation: Lists, Till, and The Trees	0
Taking the Blues Away: The Second Edition of The New Negro	0
Blue Village: A.B. Spellman, Joel Oppenheimer, and the Poetics of Interracial Community	0
Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project. J. J. Butts	0
Lowe and Behold: Evviva Maestro Giovanni!	0
Chinese Exclusion, Indigeneity, and Settler-Colonial Refusal in C Pam Zhang’sHow Much of These Hills is Gold	0
Invisibility and Seeing the Black Dead in Jason Mott’s Hell of a Book	0
Taxidermy and the Environment in Cristina García’s The Agüero Sisters	0
Black Radicalism after the Haitian Revolution: Langston Hughes’s Emperor of Haiti	0
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Matters of Inscription: Reading Figures of Latinidad. Christina A. León	0
Jewish Cultural Studies. Simon J. Bronner	0
The Thirdspace of the Borderlands in Luis Alberto Urrea’sThe House of Broken Angels: A Geocritical Reading	0
Vibrant Reading: A Transpacific Poetics of Filipinx American Vernacular Archives	0
Other Looks: Chicana/o Responses to US Magazine Aesthetics	0
“Embrace Diversity / Or Be Destroyed”: John Steinbeck, Octavia Butler, and the Plantationocene	0
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Irish American Fiction from World War II to JFK: Anxiety, Assimilation, and Activism. Beth O’Leary Anish	0
Writing Haitian and Dominican Relations as Postmemory in Jasminne Mendez’s and Ana Belique’s Young Adult and Children’s Books	0
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An Ocean of Becoming: Routed Motherhood in Lisa Ko’sThe Leavers	0
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John Wharton Lowe, Scholar of the Southern Sublime	0
To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship. Elizabeth McHenry	0
Criminal Genius in African American and US Literature, 1793-1845. Erin Forbes	0
Visualizing Transgenerational Memories of the Holocaust in Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz: An Interview with Ari Richter	0
Latina Histories and Cultures: Feminist Readings and Recoveries of Archival Knowledge. Edited by Montse Feu and Yolanda Padilla	0
Hiding in John Rechy’s Closet	0
Black Celebrity: Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists. Emily Ruth Rutter	0
Kindred Beholden-ness: A New Name for Kinship, from Octavia Butler to Ocean Vuong	0
Mothers, Mobility, Narrative: Maternality in US Literature. Mary Jo Bona	0
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The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown. Martha J. Cutter	0
We Are the Stars: Colonizing and Decolonizing the Oceti Sakowin Literary Tradition. Sarah Hernandez	0
The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature. Edited by John Ernest	0
Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy. Glenda Carpio	0
A Time of Plague: Allegory, Seriality, and Historicity in Samuel R. Delany’s Return to Nevèrÿon	0
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The Ambivalent Elegies of Gwendolyn Brooks	0
Irreconcilable Loss in Cristina Henríquez’sThe World in Half	0
Off the Derech: Leaving Orthodox Judaism. Edited by Ezra Cappell and Jessica Lang	0
Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature. Jenna Grace Sciuto	0
Indigenous Textual Cultures: Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire. Tony Ballantyne, Lachy Paterson, and Angela Wanhalla	0
Harriet Jacobs’s Text of Bodily Repetitions	0
Staging A Chinese American Tragedy: Edith Eaton’s “The Wisdom of the New”	0
Magical Habits. Monica Huerta	0
Toni Morrison’sTheir Eyes Were Watching God	0
Fatherhood in the Borderlands: A Daughter’s Slow Approach. Domino Renee Perez	0
Reckoning with Restorative Justice: Hawai‘i Women’s Prison Writing. Leanne Trapedo Sims	0
Collective Care as Affective Justice in Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy	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
Revolting Indolence: The Politics of Slacking, Lounging, and Daydreaming in Queer and Trans Latinx Culture. Marcos Gonsalez	0
Imagining Aerial Surveillance: (Eco)Poetics and War in Solmaz Sharif’s Look	0
(Re)Worlding the Plantation: Vulnerability and Regeneration in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones and Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s Blu’s Hanging	0
The Makings and Unmakings of Americans: Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1879-1924. Cristina Stanciu	0
Debating #OwnVoices: Racial/Ethnic Authenticity, Controlling Images, and Gang Life in Erika T. Wurth’s You Who Enter Here	0
Indian Removal and the Plantation South: Cherokee Present-Absence in Three Neo-Slave Narratives	0
Fugitive Figurations of Chronic Disability: Reconstructing Black Disability Politics in Frances Harper’s Iola Leroy	0
“That Bit of Art”: Love, Failure, and Maud Martha	0
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Loops, Loops, Loops: Torsion, Freedom, and Form in Tomás Rivera’s . . . y no se lo tragó la tierra	0
Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance. Jeffrey B. Ferguson. Afterword by George B. Hutchinson. Edited and with a Foreword by Werner Sollors	0
Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures. Kelly Wisecup	0
The Violence of Economies of Dispossession in Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends	0
Chicano-Chicana Americana: Pop Culture Pluralism Starring Anthony Quinn, Katy Jurado, Robert Beltran, and Lupe Ontiveros. Anthony Macías	0
Janelle Monáe, Dirty Computers, and Embodied Posthumanism	0
“No Future to Be Had”: Journeying toward Death in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon	0
Correction to: As Good as Comedy Gold: Tracing Jewish Heritage and Humor in the Works of Joseph Heller	0
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Black Citizenship and the American Landscape in the Poetry of The Colored American (1837-41)	0
A Response to Mohja Kahf	0
Class Interruptions: Inequality and Division in African Diasporic Women’s Fiction. Robin Brooks	0
A Communitarian Politics of Pastiche: Transnational Feminism, Writing, and Citation in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being	0
The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora. Edited by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Lan P. Duong, and Viet Thanh Nguyen	0
Living through Atomization: Runit Dome, Radioactive Matter, and Poetry of Digestion	0
As Good as Comedy Gold: Tracing Jewish Heritage and Humor in the Works of Joseph Heller	0
Calling in The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf on Indigeneity	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
Going Underground: Race, Space, and the Subterranean in the Nineteenth-Century United States. Lara Langer Cohen	0

Bernard Malamud at the Edge of Ethnic Humor	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
Land Uprising: Native Story Power and the Insurgent Horizons of Latinx Indigeneity. Simón Ventura Trujillo	0
Postindian Aesthetics: Affirming Indigenous Literary Sovereignty. Debra K. S. Barker and Connie A. Jacobs, Editors	0
“A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place”: Reading Minimalism, Place, and Gender from Anzia Yezierska to Marie Kondo	0
“An Actual Experience of Finality”: Melodramatic Retention and Generative Discomfort in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s An Octoroon	0
Vertamae Grosvenor’s Revolutionary Recipes	0
Metanarratives of Slavery	0
Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right. Jordan S. Carroll	0
Reading Arab American Literary Variations: An Interview with Rajia Hassib	0
Thoughts on My Friend John Lowe	0
“Tucson, City of Thieves”: Biocapitalism and Land Dispossession in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead	0
“I’m Leaving Evidence”: Traumatic Rememory, Identity, and the Body in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora	0
Postmemory Workshops: Vietnamese American Poets, Refugee Memory Work, and Creative Writing	0
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Queering Ethnic Rites of Passage: Transparent and One Day at a Time	0
Geographies of Flight: Phyllis Wheatley to Octavia Butler. William Merrill Decker	0
Correction to: Harriet Jacobs’s Text of Bodily Repetitions	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
From Homo Sacer to the Remnant: Reclaiming Orphanhood in Sun Yung Shin’s Unbearable Splendor	0
The Laughing “No”: Interpellation, Expression, and Laughter inQuicksand	0
Cartographic Memory: Social Movement Activism and the Production of Space. Juan Herrera	0
“We Were Born from Beauty”: Dis/Inheriting Genealogies of Refugee and Queer Shame in Ocean Vuong’sOn Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous	0