About the journal
MELUS, a prestigious and rigorous journal in the field of multiethnic literature of the United States, has been a vital resource for scholarship and teaching for more than forty years. Published quarterly, MELUS illuminates the national, international, and transnational contexts of US ethnic literature.
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Honoring the Legacy of Jean Fagan Yellin
This virtual issue in honor of Jean Fagan Yellin (1930-2023), is a curated collection of past articles on narratives of enslavement and related topics, with an introduction by Martha J. Cutter that outlines Yellin’s significant contributions to scholarship on African American women’s writing, and especially her recovery of Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861).
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1921 Prize winners
Congratulations to all of our MELUS authors who won a 1921 prize!
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Katherine Newman Essay Award
Daniel Valella's "Crystal City’s “Alien” Farmworkers: Tomás Rivera’s . . . y no se lo tragó la tierra and the Shared Histories of Chicanx and Japanese American Detention", from the Spring 2023 issue, 48.1, has been awarded the Katherine Newman Essay Prize.
Don D. Walker Prize
Congratulations to Daniel Valella for his essay, "Crystal City’s “Alien” Farmworkers: Tomás Rivera’s . . . y no se lo tragó la tierra and the Shared Histories of Chicanx and Japanese American Detention", from the Spring 2023 issue, 48.1, for being awarded the Don D. Walker Essay Prize.
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Do you want to publish essays that advance ongoing critical conversations about the theoretical, historical, literary, or cultural contexts of multiethnic literature? Consider publishing with MELUS. The journal welcomes essays and interviews of interest to those concerned with the multiethnic scope of literature in the US.
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About the society
MELUS is the official journal of The Society for the Study of the Multiethnic Literature of the United States. Founded in 1973, the MELUS society endeavors to expand the definition of new, more broadly conceived US ethnic literature.
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