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{"title":"Statistical Atlases and Computational Models of the Heart. Multi-Disease, Multi-View, and Multi-Center Right Ventricular Segmentation in Cardiac MRI Challenge: 12th International Workshop, STACOM 2021, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2021, Strasbourg, France, September 27, 2021, Revised Selected Pap","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-93722-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93722-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73206875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Letters from Filadelfia: Early Latino Literature and the Trans-American Elite. Rodrigo Lazo","authors":"Daniella Cádiz Bedini","doi":"10.1093/melus/mlab044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlab044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82811657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Writing across the Color Line: U.S. Print Culture and the Rise of Ethnic Literature, 1877-1920. Lucas A. Dietrich","authors":"Allison Fagan","doi":"10.1093/melus/mlab049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlab049","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"188 1","pages":"243-245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138536308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Unhurried Hermeneutics of Anti-Black Violence in Toni Morrison’s Paradise","authors":"Margarita M. Castromán Soto","doi":"10.1093/melus/mlab042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlab042","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The opening lines of Toni Morrison’s Paradise (1997) are undeniably some of her most famous: “They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time. No need to hurry out there… . there is time and the day has just begun” (3). While the novel eventually reveals the identity of those who constitute the “they” of the opening action, in a move that has received much critical attention, it famously leaves the first victim anonymous. This essay, however, draws our attention to “the rest.” What of the infamous black women of Paradise for whom the violence is slow and drawn out or the many more in our country whose names we say to rebuke a system of injustice that continues to insist that there is “no need to hurry” for “there is time and the day has just begun”?Privileging a reading of time over space, the essay puts Morrison’s Paradise in conversation with Rob Nixon’s Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (2011) and Moya Bailey’s Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance (2021) in order to address the urgent need for a temporal reframing of anti-Black violence. Paying particular care to what Karla Holloway describes as the “comparative laxity” to which Black women in this country have historically been subjected and the extent to which that comparative laxity persists in the face of spectacular scenes of violence, the essay concludes with an examination of Breonna Taylor’s murder in 2020. It considers how the events that resulted in her death, like the fictional raid that frames Morrison’s novel, are byproducts of white supremacist systems of slow violence and misogynoir designed to wear down the opposition by attrition.","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"14 1","pages":"75 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87411382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Loving Mean: Racialized Medicine and the Rise of Postwar Eugenics in Toni Morrison’s Home","authors":"James Fitz Gerald","doi":"10.1093/melus/mlab035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlab035","url":null,"abstract":"This essay reads Toni Morrison’s Home (2012) against the backdrop of the United States’ well-documented patterns of unconstrained experimentation on racial-minority patients. The essay focuses specifically on contexts of mid-century eugenics, which exposed black Americans, often women, to nonconsensual and nontherapeutic surgical procedures. I argue that Home is not only informed by these traumatic histories of medical violence but is also able to construct an ethics of care out of them through the imperative of loving mean–a de-idealized love concerned less with sympathy than with survival. In so doing, the novel advances intersubjective forms of healing that challenge the systemic roots of reproductive racism and make possible the potential for meaningful recovery from both physical and historical trauma.","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138536307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Black Insecurity at the End of the World","authors":"J. Mann","doi":"10.1093/melus/mlab029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlab029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract “Black Insecurity at the End of the World” examines the sensibility I term black insecurity by reading Colson Whitehead’s 2010 novel Zone One against a backdrop of bioinsecurity and police murder of black people. The 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa and uprisings in Ferguson, Missouri, from the same year, when situated in dialogue with Whitehead’s text, show that black insecurity reframes the spatio-temporal notion of survival by unmasking security structures as dead and dying. Engaged from the standpoint of ongoing racial justice protests and stay-at-home conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, “Black Insecurity at the End of the World” argues that black speculative fictions uniquely expose the false premises of securitization and show that black love is an essential process for unmaking the forces of anti-Blackness.","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"86 1","pages":"1 - 21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80831187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"We Are Here\": Race, Gender, and Spaces of \"Common Ground\" in the Works of John Edgar Wideman, bell hooks, and Jesmyn Ward","authors":"Joel Wendland-Liu","doi":"10.1093/melus/mlab033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlab033","url":null,"abstract":"Black-authored self-writing serves multiple liberating functions, according to historian John Blassingame. In a short commentary for Black Scholar in 1973, Blassingame asserts the vitality of the black autobiographical tradition as a primary form of protest and intervention through the constitution of selfauthored images of black people. It provides “therapeutic value” by establishing the shared experience of racism and resistance between the author and reader and by affirming the humanity and complexity of black lives (“Black” 7). Black selfwriting also affords writers opportunities to establish their professional literary reputations, strengthen their composition skills, and construct black literary traditions. In other words, black autobiography helps produce a literary space of cultural self-determination. In Blassingame’s view, cultural self-determination assumes a beneficial character because it indexes, to cite his terminology, a “realistic” (2) culture of “uplift” (6) and “progress” (8) as a counter to negative, dehumanizing schemas that white supremacy systematically produces. This discourse of positivity, uplift, and progress emerges from the yoking of spatiality and the production of autobiographical narrative. Autobiography simultaneously measures and maps a space of social progress and uplift even as it performs the task of producing social progress and uplift; it crafts a history that anticipates its act of creation. It weaves the present into the fabric of the past to construct black identity and community in a dialectical relationship with resistance to oppression. Blassingame’s discussion of the role of self-writing as a tool of cultural selfdetermination anticipates the concept of “placemaking” theorized in the 2016 findings of a group of interdisciplinary scholars. In Marcus Anthony Hunter et al.’s study of black Chicago communities, placemaking derives from the use of “creative practices” (32) that highlight and reflect the “agency, intent, and ......................................................................................................","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"24 1","pages":"188 - 209"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82038167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"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","authors":"Zerri Trosper","doi":"10.1093/melus/mlab038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlab038","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84230008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel by Mazen Naous (review)","authors":"Nadine Sinno","doi":"10.1093/melus/mlab037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlab037","url":null,"abstract":"In Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel, Mazen Naous persuasively argues that the contemporary Arab American novel creates an empowering space for reimagining the lived realities of Arab Americans along “transcultural and transpoetic lines,” thereby countering stereotypical, orientalist, and homogenizing discourses about Arab Americans, particularly in a post-9/11 United States. Engaging the aesthetic and the political, and the aesthetic-as-political, Naous provides insightful textual analyses of prominent Arab American novels that take place in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and the United States. He excavates the innovative aesthetic interventions in each novel, showing how the novels’ poetics, thematic and political content, and narrative techniques are deeply intertwined and cogenerative. For Naous, these novels contribute to developing what he calls a “polyphonic multiplex of Arab American selfexpression and art” (191). The novels seek to recuperate Arab American identities and experiences from both invisibility and “hyper-in-visibility,” by casting characters, settings, and plots that demonstrate the complexity and diversity of Arab Americans and that elucidate their interconnectedness with other communities within and beyond the United States. In the first chapter, Naous provides a close reading of Koolaids: The Art of War (1998) by Lebanese American author Rabih Alameddine. He argues that by incorporating the poetics of AIDS dementia and repetition, the novel unsettles mainstream myths about the United States’ legendary capacity to provide a safe haven for immigrants who have fled the violence of war and discrimination in their countries of origin. Here, Naous deftly shows the ways in which the author employs AIDS dementia as a means of queering religious texts by revealing their mutability and instability. Providing an analysis of Diana Abu-Jaber’s novel Arabian Jazz (1993), the second chapter interrogates the role of jazz, particularly improvisation and the blue note, in advancing a “dialogic” Arab American experience that shares much in common with the struggles and resistances of other minoritized populations, particularly African Americans and Native Americans. Naous exquisitely deconstructs the names of the Arab American characters,","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"40 3 1","pages":"222 - 224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73098636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Writing the Survivor: The Rape Novel in Late Twentieth-Century American Fiction. Robin E. Field","authors":"Goutam Karmakar","doi":"10.1093/melus/mlab036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlab036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44959,"journal":{"name":"MELUS","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87281900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}