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IF 0.2 3区文学

MELUS Pub Date : 2022-01-21 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlab047

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Getting to the Root of US Healthcare Injustices through Morrison’s Root Workers 通过莫里森的根工人找到美国医疗不公正的根源

IF 0.2 3区文学

MELUS Pub Date : 2022-01-20 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlab053

G. Anatol

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Reclaiming the Street in Toni Morrison’s Jazz 在托尼·莫里森的《爵士》中收复街道

IF 0.2 3区文学

MELUS Pub Date : 2022-01-19 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlac003

Alexandra Smith

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“It’s Not My Freedom or Free”: The Big Box and Toni Morrison’s Meditations on Violence, Justice, and Power 《这不是我的自由或自由》:《大盒子》和托妮·莫里森对暴力、正义和权力的思考

IF 0.2 3区文学

MELUS Pub Date : 2022-01-19 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlab043

Lauren M. Brown

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From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture. Koritha Mitchell 从奴隶小屋到白宫:非裔美国人文化中的自制公民身份。Koritha米切尔

IF 0.2 3区文学

MELUS Pub Date : 2022-01-08 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlab051

Kerstin Rudolph

引用次数: 3

The Routledge Introduction to Native American Literature. Drew Lopenzina 《劳特利奇印第安文学导论》。画Lopenzina

IF 0.2 3区文学

MELUS Pub Date : 2022-01-07 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlab052

Isabel Quintana Wulf

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”Nothing Made Them Change Their Minds about the Medical Industry”: Medical Abuse, Incarceration, and Healing in Toni Morrison’s Home 《没有什么能让他们改变对医疗行业的看法》:托妮·莫里森家中的医疗虐待、监禁和治疗

IF 0.2 3区文学

MELUS Pub Date : 2022-01-07 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlab045

Patrick S. Allen

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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 心脏的统计地图集和计算模型。心脏MRI挑战中的多疾病，多视角和多中心右室分割:第12届国际研讨会，STACOM 2021，与MICCAI 2021一起举行，斯特拉斯堡，法国，2021年9月27日，修订选择Pap

IF 0.2 3区文学

MELUS Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-93722-5

引用次数: 13

Letters from Filadelfia: Early Latino Literature and the Trans-American Elite. Rodrigo Lazo Filadelfia的信件:早期拉丁文学和跨美洲精英。罗德里戈Lazo

IF 0.2 3区文学

MELUS Pub Date : 2021-12-13 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlab044

Daniella Cádiz Bedini

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Writing across the Color Line: U.S. Print Culture and the Rise of Ethnic Literature, 1877-1920. Lucas A. Dietrich 跨色线写作:美国印刷文化与民族文学的兴起，1877-1920。卢卡斯·a·迪特里希

IF 0.2 3区文学

MELUS Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlab049

Allison Fagan

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