OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Historicizing the Transpacific Settler Colonial Condition: Asian–Indigenous Relations in Shawn Wong’sHomebaseand Viet Thanh Nguyen’sThe Sympathizer	8
Loving Mean: Racialized Medicine and the Rise of Postwar Eugenics in Toni Morrison’sHome	3
“In de Affica Soil”: Slavery, Ethnography, and Recovery in Zora Neale Hurston’sBarracoon: The Story of the “Last Black Cargo”	2
“What Race Problem?”: The Satirical Gaze of (White) History in The Underground Railroad	2
“Let Me Confess”: Confession, Complicity, and #MeToo in Junot Díaz'sThis is How You Lose Herand “The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma”	2
Marronage or Underground? The Black Geographies of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Water Dancer	2
“Necessarily Hidden Truth(s)”: Documenting Queer Migrant Experience in Rigoberto González’s Crossing Vines	1
On Transcultural Presence and Reparative Reading Practice: Rethinking Belonging and Transcultural Transformation in Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents	1
Janelle Monáe, Dirty Computers, and Embodied Posthumanism	1
Intoxicating Blackness: Addiction and Ambivalent Sounds of Fugitive Life in James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”	1
Guest Editors’ Introduction—Visionary Praxis: Paule Marshall’s, Ntozake Shange’s, and Toni Morrison’s Foresight concerning Sick Violence and Violent Sickness	1
Secret Codes & Oppressive Histories	1
Birthing a Graphic Archive of Memory: Re-Viewing the Refugee Experience in Thi Bui’sThe Best We Could Do	1
Colson Whitehead’s History of the United States	1
Techniques of Justice: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits and the Problem of Visualizing the Race	1
Black Insecurity at the End of the World	1
Sula’s Compromise: Toni Morrison and the Editorial Politics of Sensitivity	1
Toni Morrison’sTheir Eyes Were Watching God	0
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval. Saidiya Hartman	0
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Reclaiming the Street in Toni Morrison’sJazz	0
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Geographies of Flight: Phyllis Wheatley to Octavia Butler. William Merrill Decker	0
Introduction—Historical Fiction and the 1960s: Mediating the Past and Reimagining the Future	0

“A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place”: Reading Minimalism, Place, and Gender from Anzia Yezierska to Marie Kondo	0
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Fugitive Figurations of Chronic Disability: Reconstructing Black Disability Politics in Frances Harper’s Iola Leroy	0
The Political Arrays of American Indian Literary History. James H. Cox	0
Flavor and Soul: Italian America at Its African American Edge. John Gennari	0
Irish American Fiction from World War II to JFK: Anxiety, Assimilation, and Activism. Beth O’Leary Anish	0
Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture. Britt Rusert	0
Growing Better, Not Going Faster: World War I, Holy Land Mania, and Transnational Exchange in the Works of Abraham Mitrie Rihbany	0
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Capital Citizens: Disinvesting the Individual in Helena María Viramontes’sUnder the Feet of Jesus	0
Encrypted Citations: The Bondwoman’s Narrative and the Case of Jane Johnson	0
On Freedom and the Will to Adorn: The Art of the African American Essay. Cheryl A. Wall	0
“Well Then, Carry On”: Piercing Recalcitrant History in LaShonda Katrice Barnett’s Jam on the Vine	0
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Honoring the Legacy of Jean Fagan Yellin (1930-2023)	0
Sigrid Nunez on the Writer’s Life	0
Monstrous “Elsewheres”: The Horror Spatial Imaginary in Black Fiction and Film	0
“We Were Born from Beauty”: Dis/Inheriting Genealogies of Refugee and Queer Shame in Ocean Vuong’sOn Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous	0
Color-blind Aesthetics in Manuel Muñoz: Reading Race in Form and Feeling	0
Genre Experiments: Thylias Moss’sSlave Mothand the Poetic Neo-Slave Narrative	0
Postindian Aesthetics: Affirming Indigenous Literary Sovereignty. Debra K. S. Barker and Connie A. Jacobs, Editors	0
Queering Ethnic Rites of Passage: Transparent and One Day at a Time	0
A Violent Peace: Race, U. S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific. Christine Hong	0
Correction to: “Say, Who Owns This House?”: US Violence, Indebtedness, and Care in Toni Morrison’s Home	0
The Black Utopia: Secret Societies and Time Travel in W. E. B. Du Bois and Sutton E. Griggs	0
Reanimating Historical Violence in Multi-Ethnic Graphic Narratives	0
Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial. Edited by Sarah D. Wald, David J. Vázquez, Priscilla Solis Ybarra, and Sarah Jaquette Ray	0
“Doomed by the Confusion in Their Design”: Racialized Urban Space, Redlining, and Monolithic Whiteness in Paule Marshall’s Brown Girl, Brownstones	0
Narrating Cross-Border Migration, Writing Subjects without History: On Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Devil’s Highway and Francisco Cantú’s The Line Becomes a River	0
Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions. David S. Roh	0
“They Stood like Men”: Horses, Myth, and Carnophallogocentrism in Toni Morrison’s Home	0
Land Uprising: Native Story Power and the Insurgent Horizons of Latinx Indigeneity. Simón Ventura Trujillo	0
To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship. Elizabeth McHenry	0
Shadow Archives: The Lifecycles of African American Literature. Jean-Christophe Cloutier	0
Postmemory Workshops: Vietnamese American Poets, Refugee Memory Work, and Creative Writing	0
“Nothing Made Them Change Their Minds about the Medical Industry”: Medical Abuse, Incarceration, and Healing in Toni Morrison’sHome	0
Irreconcilable Loss in Cristina Henríquez’sThe World in Half	0
On Opacity: Toni Morrison’s and Paule Marshall’s Narrative Vision Therapy	0
The Trembling Network or a Sociology of Feeling: W. E. B. Du Bois’sThe Quest of the Silver Fleece	0
Fictions of Western American Domesticity: Indian, Mexican, and Anglo Women in Print Culture, 1850-1950. Amanda J. Zink	0
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Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel. Mazen Naous	0
Toward a Poetics of Allyship: Rajiv Mohabir’s Radical, Animal Coolitude	0
Violence, Ritual, and Vogue: Black Queer Feminist Praxis in Motion	0
Black Celebrity: Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists. Emily Ruth Rutter	0
From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture. Koritha Mitchell	0
Getting to the Root of US Healthcare Injustices through Morrison’s Root Workers	0
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Afterword—The Racialized Past is Racist Prologue: The Relevance and Resonance of Historical Novels in the Age of Trump	0

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“It’s Not My Freedom or Free”: The Big Box and Toni Morrison’s Meditations on Violence, Justice, and Power	0
Articulations of Resistance: Transformative Practices in Contemporary Arab-American Poetry. Sirène H. Harb	0
Reading with the Grain: The Ecologies ofThe Lowland	0
“Boundaries Bind Unbinding”: Jazz and Cold War Cosmopolitanism in the Margins of Langston Hughes’sAsk Your Mama	0
The Unhurried Hermeneutics of Anti-Black Violence in Toni Morrison’sParadise	0
The Thirdspace of the Borderlands in Luis Alberto Urrea’sThe House of Broken Angels: A Geocritical Reading	0
Lynching: Violence, Rhetoric, and American Identity. Ersula J. Ore	0
Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality. Jennifer C. Nash	0
Empathy and the Phantasmic in Ethnic American Trauma Narratives. Stella Setka	0
Reading Arab American Literary Variations: An Interview with Rajia Hassib	0
“There but Not There”: Green Island and the Transpacific Dimensions of Representing White Terror	0
“Then Her World Exploded”: Science-Fictional Reading and Ta-Nehisi Coates’sBetween the World and Me	0
A Story in Sound: The Unpublished Writings of Sidney Bechet	0
Ten Zen Koans Translated from Japanese, Mandarin, Wu, Vietnamese, Thai, Fujian, Korean, Tibetan, Hakka, Javenese, Mizo, Nepal Bhasa, Khasi, Buryat, Malay, Paiwan, Burmese, Ryukyuan, and Okinawan by Ja	0
Phoenix Rising:The Book of Phoenixand Black Feminist Resistance	0
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Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora. Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández	0
Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature. Jenna Grace Sciuto	0
“We Are Here”: Race, Gender, and Spaces of “Common Ground” in the Works of John Edgar Wideman, bell hooks, and Jesmyn Ward	0
Insurgencies fromThere There	0
Audiovisual Materiality and the Technopoetical Gesture in Recent Black Poetry and Performance	0
Body Parts of Empire: Visual Abjection, Filipino Images, and the American Archive. Nerissa S. Balce	0
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Other Looks: Chicana/o Responses to US Magazine Aesthetics	0
Drowning out Karen in The Chosen Place, The Timeless People	0
Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures. Kelly Wisecup	0
The Weight of the Past: Mixed-Race Materiality in Post-Racial Asian American Literature	0
The Routledge Introduction to Native American Literature. Drew Lopenzina	0
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Letters from Filadelfia: Early Latino Literature and the Trans-American Elite. Rodrigo Lazo	0
Textuality in a Jazz Aesthetic: Textual Rituals for Transformation in Sharon Bridgforth’slove conjure/blues	0
Magical Habits. Monica Huerta	0
Black Madness :: Mad Blackness. Therí Alyce Pickens	0
Friendship in the Time of COINTELPRO: Clarence Major and Dingane Joe Goncalves	0
The New Immigrant Whiteness: Race, Neoliberalism, and Post-Soviet Migration to the United States. Claudia Sadowski-Smith	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
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Taking the Blues Away: The Second Edition of The New Negro	0
“Say, Who Owns This House?”: US Violence, Indebtedness, and Care in Toni Morrison’s Home	0
When Black Lives Really Do Matter: Subverting Medical Racism through African-Diasporic Healing Rituals in Toni Morrison’s Fiction	0
Cherokee Historical Fiction and Indigenous Science Fiction inRiding the Trail of Tears	0
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The Law’s Business: Peculiar Profits in Edward Jones’sThe Known World	0
Writing the Survivor: The Rape Novel in Late Twentieth-Century American Fiction. Robin E. Field	0
The Trope of the Papers: Rethinking the (Un)Documented in African American Literature	0
The Kosher Capones: A History of Chicago’s Jewish Gangsters. Joe Kraus	0
“But You’re Not at All like Bertha”: Contemporary (Black) Trans* Studies and Richard Wright’s “Man of All Work”	0
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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
Jean Toomer after Cane	0
Teaching Jewish American Literature. Roberta Rosenberg and Rachel Rubinstein	0
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Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro:Gloria Anzaldúa’s Response to 9/11	0
Place-Based Learning in Three Bildungsromane: To Kill a Mockingbird; Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; and Under the Feet of Jesus	0
Novel Subjects: Authorship as Radical Self-Care in Multiethnic American Narratives. Leah A. Milne	0
The Laughing “No”: Interpellation, Expression, and Laughter inQuicksand	0
The Schlemiel and the Messianic in Michael Chabon’sThe Yiddish Policemen’s Unionand Nicole Krauss’sForest Dark	0
The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown. Martha J. Cutter	0
The Diseased Body Politic of Early America in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy	0
Chinese Exclusion, Indigeneity, and Settler-Colonial Refusal in C Pam Zhang’sHow Much of These Hills is Gold	0
Writing across the Color Line: U.S. Print Culture and the Rise of Ethnic Literature, 1877-1920. Lucas A. Dietrich	0
Living through Atomization: Runit Dome, Radioactive Matter, and Poetry of Digestion	0
Event, Trauma, and Ethics in Wing Tek Lum’sThe Nanjing Massacre	0
Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance. Jeffrey B. Ferguson. Afterword by George B. Hutchinson. Edited and with a Foreword by Werner Sollors	0
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Jewish Cultural Studies. Simon J. Bronner	0
Off the Derech: Leaving Orthodox Judaism. Edited by Ezra Cappell and Jessica Lang	0
Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte. Christopher Pexa	0
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Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas. Jinah Kim	0
Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska’s Indigenous and Asian Entanglements. Juliana Hu Pegues	0
Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project. J. J. Butts	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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Metanarratives of Slavery	0
The “Con” in Conspiracy: Racial Violence as Political Assassination in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Topdog/Underdog	0