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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedCynthia Shearer's The Celestial Jukebox (2005) offers readers a radically unconventional perspective on the Mississippi Delta region of the United States, an area described by historian James C. Cobb as the "most...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn January 2006, Manish Vij, a regular contributor to the popular South Asian American cultural interest blog Sepia Mutiny, posted an incisive send-up of the commodification of transnational South Asian novels in...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI can speak five tongues--three Indian tongues, English and Spanish. I can read and write, and am a school teacher. Now I do not say this to boast, but simply to show you what can be done. --Sarah Winnemucca (qtd. in...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"There's the not-so that reveals the set--that's fiction." --Philip Roth (Exit 120) "One can produce an imaginary discourse about real events that may not be less 'true' for being 'imaginary.'" --Hayden White...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEver since the 1970s, as writers and critics began to develop an Asian American canon and search for role models for their own writing, Jade Snow Wong and her 1950 autobiography, Fifth Chinese Daughter, have been...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI do not want to treat efficiency as mere technique or method. There is no other way for humankind beyond efficiency. I wish to emphasize that the way of man is in fact efficiency. --Ueno YSichi (187-89) In the...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedR ecognize Aroostook Indians. E nvelope [sic] all my people. C hildren, all Indian children. O pen your hearts to my people. G ive my people your help. N one shall be forgotten. I ndians are people....
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955) is the result of a collaborative effort between photographer Roy DeCarava and writer Langston Hughes. Their unique fusion of words and images provides an opportunity to examine how the...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn The Dew Breaker (2004), Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat continues her engagement with the troubled history of her homeland, investigating how this history affects the Haitian people both in Haiti and in...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLand and community are two ongoing concerns of contemporary Native American literature and literary criticism, and with good reason; if indigenous writing and theory are to remain genuinely useful to indigenous people,...