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Narrating the Transnational: Refugee Routes, Communities of Shared Fate, and Transnarrative Form

This essay argues that Aimee Phan’s short story cycle We Should Never Meet (2004) offers a form that makes perceptible the linked trajectories conditioning refugee displacements. Mapping the fallout from the evacuation of children from South Vietnam, this story cycle draws out the relations among the vectors of US power and the mass displacements they produce, as well as the...

MELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Volume 42, Number 4 Winter 2017 - TOC

MELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States - Editorial Board

Histories Made Flesh: William Apess’s Juridical Theologies

Editor’s Introduction: Space, Land, and the Global Environment of Ethnicity