Companion to Multiethnic Literature of the United States

Notes on Contributors viii

Introduction: What is Multiethnic Literature of the United States? 1
Gary Totten

Part I: Contexts 11

1 The Multiethnic Archive 13
Emily Ruth Rutter

2 Popular Culture and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 26
Christopher Gonzalez

3 Displaced Subjects and Refugee Aesthetics: Contemporary Southeast Asian American Literature 40
Cathy J. Schlund-Vials

4 Print Culture and Multiethnic Literature of the United States: Shifting Constructions of Black Print Cultures 51
Joycelyn K. Moody and Corey D. Greathouse

5 The Environment and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 65
Gregory Toy

6 Translation and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 77
Marlene Hansen Esplin

7 Multiethnic Digital Humanities: Practices, Theories, Case Studies 89
David S. Roh

8 Critical Race Theory and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 103
Christina Hsu Accomando

9 Gender and Material Culture in Multiethnic Literature of the United States: On Black Women's Textiles and Textuality 117
Mary I. Unger

10 Social Class and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 131
Scott Henkel

Part II: Geographies 143

11 The US South and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 145
Kirstin L. Squint

12 Transpacific Routes of Asian American Literature 157
Steven Yao

13 The US West and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 169
Emily Lutenski

14 Hemispheric, Transnational, and Comparative Approaches to Multiethnic Literature of the United States 181
Vincent Perez

Part III: Genres 197

15 Multiethnic Fiction of the US Empire: Why Read Twentieth-Century African American and Asian American Novels Together? 199
Caroline H. Yang

16 Aesthetic Discourse and Experimentation in Multiethnic Poetics of the United States 210
Laura Vrana

17 Multiethnic Life Writing of the United States 224
Eleanor Ty and William Kummer

18 Multiethnic Theatre of the United States 237
Jessica E. Teague and Arianna Razo

19 Multiethnic Graphic Narratives of the United States 249
Frederick Luis Aldama

20 Multiethnic Science Fiction of the United States 256
Joy Sanchez-Taylor

21 Multiethnic Children's and Young Adult Literature of the United States: From Painful Histories to Action and Progress 269
Cristina Rhodes

22 Neo-Passing and the (Re)Construction of Race in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Multiethnic Literature of the United States 281
Martha J. Cutter

23 The New Novel of Slavery in the Twenty-First Century 292
Mark Eaton

Part IV: Themes 305

24 Politics and Multiethnic Literature of the United States: The Black Census and the Colored Conventions Movement 307
Sarah Lynn Patterson

25 Food and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 322
Wenying Xu

26 Travel, Mobility, and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 334
Gary Totten

27 Cultural Citizenship and Belonging in Multiethnic Literature of the United States 346
Tracy Floreani

28 The Body and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 358
Joanna Ziarkowska

29 Humor and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 371
Jennifer Glaser

30 Crime and Multiethnic Literature of the United States: The Mafia Frame-How America Came to Read the Gangster as Italian American 385
Joe Kraus

31 Religion and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 396
Danielle Haque

Index 408

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