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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedChapter Five of Ana Castillo's novel Sapogonia (1990) begins with the line, "It wasn't that he had fallen in love with her" (17). That is, of course, provided you are reading the 1990 Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe American Gothic tradition includes literature in the United States that exhibits fantastic or otherworldly qualities. More often than not, however, when these traits appear in US Latina/o fiction, the literary...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis essay examines Marilyn Chin's revisionary work on the aural, visual, and racial aspects of writing the lyric in the "Broken Chord Sequence" from her Rhapsody in Plain Yellow (2002). Addressing the interventions of...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed"in the beginning / was the word," asserts the speaker of the poem "testament," who identifies herself as "lucille clifton" (Clifton, Good Woman 213). (1) Despite the fact that the biblical text to which she alludes...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedHaunting ... alters the experience of being in time, the way we separate the past, the present, and the future.... [S]pecters or ghosts appear when the trouble they represent and symptomize is no longer being contained...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed[W]e need ultimately to "catch up" to the events, to move forward and backward from them in order to work through their traumatic impact and to address the social and political contexts that help to foster (without...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedNear the end of Bich Minh Nguyen's Stealing Buddha's Dinner (2007), a memoir of a Vietnamese American girl growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the reader encounters a conspicuous two-page "Author's Note." In this...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed[O]ne voice is not enough, nor two, although this is where dialogue begins. --Cherrie Moraga (58) In Letter Thirty-Two of Ana Castillo's epistolary novel, The Mixquiahuala Letters (1986), the Chicana poet...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAfter The Great White Hope (1967) won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1969, its author, Howard Sackler, told the New York Times that the play was not "about blacks and whites" and was instead "a metaphor of struggle...