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A World of Difference: Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren and the Protocols of Racial Reading

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Mark Chia-Yon Jerng
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 251–278.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266054
Published: 01 June 2011
...Mark Chia-Yon Jerng Science fiction poses particular dilemmas for referential reading practices privileged in ethnic literary studies and African American literature. Because science fiction often requires the reader to discern the governing norms and values of its constructed, alternative world...
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Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs Racial Worldmaking: The Power of Popular Fiction

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Travis M. Foster
American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 812–814.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8781043
Published: 01 December 2020
... Press . 2017 . x, 148 pp. Cloth, $72.00 ; paper, $24.00 ; e-book available. Racial Worldmaking: The Power of Popular Fiction . By Mark C. Jerng New York : Fordham Univ. Press . 2018 . vii, 284 pp. Cloth, $105.00 ; paper, $30.00 ; e-book, $29.99 . Copyright © 2020 by Duke...
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Preface

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Gerry Canavan, Priscilla Wald
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 237–249.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266045
Published: 01 June 2011
... with the epistemological dimensions of SF. Beginning with Mark Chia-Yon­ Jerng’s “A World of Difference: Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren and the Protocols of Racial Reading,” which explores how the world-­making dimensions of the genre illustrate the social deter...
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Index to Volume 83

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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 893–914.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1503866
Published: 01 December 2011
..., 664–66. Jerng, Mark Chia-­Yon. “A World of Difference: Samuel Delany’s Dhalgren and the Protocols of Racial Reading,” 251–78. Jones, Laura. Review: Adams, Continental Divides: Remapping the Cultures of North America, 670–73. Review: Beard, Acts of Narrative Resistance: Women’s...
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Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature / Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging

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Karen Dubinsky
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 452–454.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587701
Published: 01 June 2012
...Karen Dubinsky Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature . By Callahan Cynthia . Ann Arbor : Univ. of Michigan Press . 2011 . 190 pp. $70.00 . Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging . By Jerng Mark C. . Minneapolis : Univ...
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All Hail Cthulhu! On Lovecraft, Monstress , and Asian American Bildung

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Derek Lee
American Literature (2025) 97 (1): 155–184.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11597552
Published: 01 March 2025
... in the Known World, fantasy as a genre depends on connecting secondary worlds with primary worlds, texts with paratexts (Jerng 2018 : 108). Series writer Marjorie Liu readily acknowledges how the Asian diaspora informs every aspect of Monstress , from her grandmother’s thousand-mile trek across China during...
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An American Body/Politic: A Deleuzian Approach / American Spaces of Conversion: The Conductive Imaginaries of Edwards, Emerson, and James / Love’s Whipping Boy: Violence and Sentimentality in the American Imagination / Revolutionary Deists: Early America’s Rational Infidels

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Arthur Riss
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 437–440.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587647
Published: 01 June 2012
...-1587692 Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature. By Cynthia Calla- han. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2011. 190 pp. $70.00. Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging. By Mark C. Jerng. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. xliii, 352 pp...
View articletitled, An American Body/Politic: A Deleuzian Approach / American Spaces of Conversion: The Conductive Imaginaries of Edwards, Emerson, and James / Love’s Whipping Boy: Violence and Sentimentality in the American Imagination / Revolutionary Deists: Early America’s Rational Infidels View PDF for article titled, An American Body/Politic: A Deleuzian Approach / American Spaces of Conversion: The Conductive Imaginaries of Edwards, Emerson, and James / Love’s Whipping Boy: Violence and Sentimentality in the American Imagination / Revolutionary Deists: Early America’s Rational Infidels
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The Meaning of Rivers: Flow and Reflection in American Literature / Environmental Evasion: The Literary, Critical, and Cultural Politics of “Nature’s Nation.”

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Nicole M. Merola
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 440–442.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587656
Published: 01 June 2012
...-1587692 Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature. By Cynthia Calla- han. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2011. 190 pp. $70.00. Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging. By Mark C. Jerng. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. xliii, 352 pp...
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Women Writers of the American West, 1833–1927 / Lost Homelands: Ruin and Reconstruction in the Twentieth Century Southwest

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Amy T. Hamilton
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 442–444.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587665
Published: 01 June 2012
...: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2011. 190 pp. $70.00. Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging. By Mark C. Jerng. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. xliii, 352 pp. Paper, $25.00. Contemporary interest in adoption stories seems to be insatiable. Flip though almost any...
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In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post–Civil Rights Era / Neo-Segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post–Civil Rights American Literature

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Amy Abugo Ongiri
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 445–447.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587674
Published: 01 June 2012
...-1587692 Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature. By Cynthia Calla- han. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2011. 190 pp. $70.00. Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging. By Mark C. Jerng. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. xliii, 352 pp...
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Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature / How to Be South Asian in America: Narratives of Ambivalence and Belonging / Writing the Ghetto: Class, Authorship, and the Asian American Ethnic Enclave

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Jeehyun Lim
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 447–449.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587683
Published: 01 June 2012
...: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2011. 190 pp. $70.00. Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging. By Mark C. Jerng. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. xliii, 352 pp. Paper, $25.00. Contemporary interest in adoption stories seems to be insatiable. Flip though almost any...
View articletitled, Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature / How to Be South Asian in America: Narratives of Ambivalence and Belonging / Writing the Ghetto: Class, Authorship, and the Asian American Ethnic Enclave View PDF for article titled, Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature / How to Be South Asian in America: Narratives of Ambivalence and Belonging / Writing the Ghetto: Class, Authorship, and the Asian American Ethnic Enclave
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Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination / Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body

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Suzanne Schneider
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 450–452.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587692
Published: 01 June 2012
...-1587692 Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature. By Cynthia Calla- han. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2011. 190 pp. $70.00. Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging. By Mark C. Jerng. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. xliii, 352 pp...
View articletitled, Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination / Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body View PDF for article titled, Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination / Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body
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The Troubled Union: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels / Secret Histories: Reading Twentieth-Century American Literature / The South That Wasn’t There: Postsouthern Memory and History

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Timothy Parrish
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 454–456.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587710
Published: 01 June 2012
...: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2011. 190 pp. $70.00. Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging. By Mark C. Jerng. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. xliii, 352 pp. Paper, $25.00. Contemporary interest in adoption stories seems to be insatiable. Flip though almost any...
View articletitled, The Troubled Union: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels / Secret Histories: Reading Twentieth-Century American Literature / The South That Wasn’t There: Postsouthern Memory and History View PDF for article titled, The Troubled Union: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels / Secret Histories: Reading Twentieth-Century American Literature / The South That Wasn’t There: Postsouthern Memory and History
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Deep Waters: The Textual Continuum in American Indian Literature / When Did Indians Become Straight? Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty

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Audra Simpson
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 457–459.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587719
Published: 01 June 2012
...-1587692 Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature. By Cynthia Calla- han. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2011. 190 pp. $70.00. Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging. By Mark C. Jerng. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. xliii, 352 pp...
View articletitled, Deep Waters: The Textual Continuum in American Indian Literature / When Did Indians Become Straight? Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty View PDF for article titled, Deep Waters: The Textual Continuum in American Indian Literature / When Did Indians Become Straight? Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty
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Spiritual Mestizaje: Religion, Gender, Race, and Nation in Contemporary Chicana Narrative / Hispanic Immigrant Literature: El Sueño del Retorno

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John Morán González
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 459–461.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587728
Published: 01 June 2012
...-1587692 Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature. By Cynthia Calla- han. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2011. 190 pp. $70.00. Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging. By Mark C. Jerng. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. xliii, 352 pp...
View articletitled, Spiritual Mestizaje: Religion, Gender, Race, and Nation in Contemporary Chicana Narrative / Hispanic Immigrant Literature: El Sueño del Retorno View PDF for article titled, Spiritual Mestizaje: Religion, Gender, Race, and Nation in Contemporary Chicana Narrative / Hispanic Immigrant Literature: El Sueño del Retorno
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A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx / Owning Up: Privacy, Property, and Belonging in US Women’s Life Writing

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Jean Marie Lutes
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 461–463.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587737
Published: 01 June 2012
...-1587692 Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature. By Cynthia Calla- han. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2011. 190 pp. $70.00. Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging. By Mark C. Jerng. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. xliii, 352 pp...
View articletitled, A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx / Owning Up: Privacy, Property, and Belonging in US Women’s Life Writing View PDF for article titled, A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx / Owning Up: Privacy, Property, and Belonging in US Women’s Life Writing
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The American Essay in the American Century / Reading as Therapy: What Contemporary Fiction Does for Middle-Class Americans

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Nancy McCabe
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 463–465.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587746
Published: 01 June 2012
...: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2011. 190 pp. $70.00. Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging. By Mark C. Jerng. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. xliii, 352 pp. Paper, $25.00. Contemporary interest in adoption stories seems to be insatiable. Flip though almost any...
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American Literature Index to Volume 84 (March 2012–December 2012)

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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 897–914.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2082227
Published: 01 December 2012
..., Karen. Review: Callahan, Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adop- tion in American Literature, 452–54. Review: Jerng, Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging, 452–54. Ensor, Sarah. “Spinster Ecology: Rachel Carson, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Nonreproductive Futurity,” 409–35...
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Contested Terrain: The Suburbs as Region

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Keith Wilhite
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 617–644.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1664737
Published: 01 September 2012
... with race might better be described as confusion over the shifting modalities of race, as his traditional views about identity and belonging always exist in an imagined tension with Theresa’s racial deconstructions. As Mark Jerng notes, “the novel exhibits a strict seg- regation of where race...
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