IF 0.2 3区文学

MELUS Pub Date : 2022-04-09 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlac019

Stephanie M. Pridgeon

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Janelle Monáe, Dirty Computers, and Embodied Posthumanism Janelle Monáe，肮脏的计算机和后人类主义

IF 0.2 3区文学

MELUS Pub Date : 2022-04-04 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlac018

Zoë Rodine

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Toni Morrison's Their Eyes Were Watching God 托妮·莫里森的《他们的眼睛注视着上帝

IF 0.2 3区文学

MELUS Pub Date : 2022-04-04 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlac020

Alec Pollak

引用次数: 1

Marronage or Underground? The Black Geographies of Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Water Dancer 婚姻还是地下?科尔森·怀特黑德的《地下铁路》和塔-内希斯·科茨的《水上舞者》中的黑人地理

IF 0.2 3区文学

MELUS Pub Date : 2022-04-04 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlac021

Nicole Waller

引用次数: 1

Guest Editors’ Introduction—Visionary Praxis: Paule Marshall’s, Ntozake Shange’s, and Toni Morrison’s Foresight concerning Sick Violence and Violent Sickness 客座编辑导言-远见实践:保罗·马歇尔、恩托扎克·尚格和托妮·莫里森对病态暴力和暴力疾病的预见

IF 0.2 3区文学

MELUS Pub Date : 2022-03-10 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlac014

Robin S. Brooks, Meina Yates-Richard

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The Black Utopia: Secret Societies and Time Travel in W. E. B. Du Bois and Sutton E. Griggs 杜波依斯和格里格斯的《黑色乌托邦:秘密社团和时间旅行》

IF 0.2 3区文学

MELUS Pub Date : 2022-03-03 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlac015

Andy Harper

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"Doomed by the Confusion in Their Design": Racialized Urban Space, Redlining, and Monolithic Whiteness in Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones “被设计中的混乱所注定”:保罗·马歇尔的《棕色女孩》中的种族化的城市空间、红线和单一的白人

IF 0.2 3区文学

MELUS Pub Date : 2022-02-28 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlac005

B. Beckett, Ryan A. Charlton, Catherine Keyser, L. Wilson, Alec Pollak, Jennifer Cho, Zoë Rodine, Jason Berger, Nicole Waller, Andy Harper, Stephanie M. Pridgeon, Carmen Merport Quiñones, Donald Weber, F. M. Duran

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Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature. Jenna Grace Sciuto 警务亲密:法律，性，和肤色线在20世纪的半球美国文学。珍娜·格蕾丝·休托

IF 0.2 3区文学

MELUS Pub Date : 2022-02-26 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlac009

L. Wilson

引用次数: 1

The Diseased Body Politic of Early America in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy 托妮·莫里森《仁慈》中早期美国的病态身体政治

IF 0.2 3区文学

MELUS Pub Date : 2022-02-26 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlac012

Srimayee Basu

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Off the Derech: Leaving Orthodox Judaism. Edited by Ezra Cappell and Jessica Lang 离开正统犹太教。埃兹拉·卡佩尔和杰西卡·朗编辑

IF 0.2 3区文学

MELUS Pub Date : 2022-02-22 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlac008

Donald Weber

引用次数: 2

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