Companion to Multiethnic Literature of the United States

GARY TOTTEN is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. He is the author of African American Travel Narratives from Abroad: Mobility and Cultural Work in the Age of Jim Crow, co-editor of Politics, Identity, and Mobility in Travel Writing, editor of Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors: Edith Wharton and Material Culture, and author of over forty journal articles and book chapters on US literature and culture.

• Notes on Contributors viiiIntroduction: What is Multiethnic Literature of the United States? 1Gary TottenPart I: Contexts 111 The Multiethnic Archive 13Emily Ruth Rutter2 Popular Culture and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 26Christopher González3 Displaced Subjects and Refugee Aesthetics: Contemporary Southeast Asian American Literature 40Cathy J. Schlund-Vials4 Print Culture and Multiethnic Literature of the United States: Shifting Constructions of Black Print Cultures 51Joycelyn K. Moody and Corey D. Greathouse5 The Environment and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 65Gregory Toy6 Translation and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 77Marlene Hansen Esplin7 Multiethnic Digital Humanities: Practices, Theories, Case Studies 89David S. Roh8 Critical Race Theory and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 103Christina Hsu Accomando9 Gender and Material Culture in Multiethnic Literature of the United States: On Black Women's Textiles and Textuality 117Mary I. Unger10 Social Class and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 131Scott HenkelPart II: Geographies 14311 The US South and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 145Kirstin L. Squint12 Transpacific Routes of Asian American Literature 157Steven Yao13 The US West and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 169Emily Lutenski14 Hemispheric, Transnational, and Comparative Approaches to Multiethnic Literature of the United States 181Vincent PérezPart III: Genres 19715 Multiethnic Fiction of the US Empire: Why Read Twentieth-Century African American and Asian American Novels Together? 199Caroline H. Yang16 Aesthetic Discourse and Experimentation in Multiethnic Poetics of the United States 210Laura Vrana17 Multiethnic Life Writing of the United States 224Eleanor Ty and William Kummer18 Multiethnic Theatre of the United States 237Jessica E. Teague and Arianna Razo19 Multiethnic Graphic Narratives of the United States 249Frederick Luis Aldama20 Multiethnic Science Fiction of the United States 256Joy Sanchez-Taylor21 Multiethnic Children's and Young Adult Literature of the United States: From Painful Histories to Action and Progress 269Cristina Rhodes22 Neo-Passing and the (Re)Construction of Race in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Multiethnic Literature of the United States 281Martha J. Cutter23 The New Novel of Slavery in the Twenty-First Century 292Mark EatonPart IV: Themes 30524 Politics and Multiethnic Literature of the United States: The Black Census and the Colored Conventions Movement 307Sarah Lynn Patterson25 Food and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 322Wenying Xu26 Travel, Mobility, and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 334Gary Totten27 Cultural Citizenship and Belonging in Multiethnic Literature of the United States 346Tracy Floreani28 The Body and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 358Joanna Ziarkowska29 Humor and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 371Jennifer Glaser30 Crime and Multiethnic Literature of the United States: The Mafia Frame—How America Came to Read the Gangster as Italian American 385Joe Kraus31 Religion and Multiethnic Literature of the United States 396Danielle HaqueIndex 408