Recently added articles from MELUS:
Notes from the editor: thresholds, secrets, and knowledge.
Jun 22, 2007; Cutter, Martha J. ... With this issue we resume a long-standing MELUS tradition of providing a brief overview that highlights thematic interconnections and commonalities. Articles in most issues of MELUS are grouped together for greater coherence; my editor's notes will clarify the logic of this grouping and ...
The fate of the other in Tony Kushner's Angels in America.
Jun 22, 2007; Omer-Sherman, Ranen ... Before HBO first aired Mike Nichols's two-part television adaptation of Tony Kushner's Angels in America (Millennium Approaches and Perestroika) in December 2003, news of its production generated a certain degree of skepticism as to whether the critical excitement it had generated during ...
"As to her race, its secret is loudly revealed": Winnifred Eaton's Revision of North American Identity.
Jun 22, 2007; Skinazi, Karen E.H. ... At the turn of the twentieth century, Quebec-born Winnifred Eaton, a Chinese British woman who used the pseudonym "Onoto Watanna," was writing romances in New York, experimenting with the popular genre of Japonisme--the craze for all things Japanese. As Eaton advanced in her career, ...
Colonial education and the politics of knowledge in Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart.
Jun 22, 2007; Wesling, Meg ... Two-thirds of the way into Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart (1946), the reader is confronted with a strikingly self-conscious passage describing the social and political utility of literature. Faced with the task of rallying support for a new literary magazine, the narrator, ...
The logic of liberalism: Lorenzo de Zavala's transcultural politics.
Jun 22, 2007; Mexal, Stephen J. ... In 1830 a Mexican aristocrat and politician who helped draft the Mexican Constitution of 1824 and would later go on to assist in the creation of the 1836 Texas Constitution traveled to the United States, a full year before Alexis de Tocqueville's now-famous journey. Lorenzo de Zavala's ...
Southernizing travel in the Black Atlantic: Booker T. Washington's The Man Farthest Down.
Jun 22, 2007; Totten, Gary ... Farah J. Griffin, Cheryl J. Fish, and Alasdair Pettinger appraise scholarly approaches to black travel literature in the introductions to two anthologies: A Stranger in the Village: Two Centuries of African-American Travel Writing (1998), edited by Griffin and Fish, and Always Elsewhere: ...
Revised memories and colliding identities: absence and presence in Morrison's "Recitatif" and Viramontes's "Tears on My Pillow".
Jun 22, 2007; Androne, Helane Adams ... Recently several literary critics have argued that ethnic literatures are comparable in their complex rhetorical remembering of ancestral, linguistic, and gendered realities to negotiate contemporary political, social, and spiritual issues. (1) A close comparative examination of African ...
Charles Reis Felix's Through a Portagee Gate: lives parceled out in stories.
Jun 22, 2007; Fagundes, Francisco Cota ... The recent publication of Charles Reis Felix's Through a Portagee Gate (2004) is a unique addition to Portuguese American Literature, a still relatively small field but one that, in the last twenty-five years, has experienced what amounts to a flurry of critical and artistic activity. (1) ...
Interview with Cynthia Kadohata.(Interview)
Jun 22, 2007; Lee, Hsiu-chuan ... Recently Cynthia Kadohata (1956-) has achieved recognition in the field of children's literature for the novel Kira-Kira (2004), which won the 2005 Newbery Medal. A coming-of-age novel set in the 1950s, Kira-Kira portrays its protagonist-narrator Katie's growth from a naive four-year-old ...
Critical Essays on John Edgar Wideman.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; Young, Reggie ... Critical Essays on John Edgar Wideman. Ed. Bonnie TuSmith and Keith E. Byerman. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006.312 pages. $32.00 cloth. Critical Essays on John Edgar Wideman is a much-needed collection on a writer who, according to the volume's co-editor, Keith ...
American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; Sohn, Stephen Hong ... American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America. Allan Punzalan Isaac. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. xxx + 205 pages. $60.00 cloth; $20.00 paper. American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America is a welcome and incisive addition to the ever-growing ...
With Her Machete in Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; Perez, Emma ... With Her Machete in Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians. Catriona Rueda Esquibel. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. xi + 245 pages. $50.00 cloth; $15.95 paper. In her innovative study, With Her Machete in Her Hand, Catriona Rueda Esquibel offers genealogies of Chicana ...
Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; Gabbin, Joanne V. ... Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights. Keith D. Leonard. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. 283 pages. $55.00 cloth; $19.50 paper. In Fettered Genius. The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights, Keith ...
Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; Deka, Mayuri ... Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits. Ed. Shirley Geok-lin Lira, John Blair Gamber, Stephen Hong Sohn, and Gina Valentino. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006. 320 pages. $76.50 cloth; $25.95 paper. Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites ...