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... on the professionalization of literary writing, as well as the impact of commodification on Indigenous migrants in Chimbote. This article draws parallels between the diarist Arguedas (who defines himself as a nonprofessional writer attached to Indigenous cultures), the fishing entrepreneur Braschi (a mythical figure...

... cosmopolitanisms. Recent essays by Nasia Anam, Marissia Fragkou, and Dominic Thomas all stress the importance of telling migration stories from the perspective of the migrants themselves. They each trace the path of a different diaspora (Muslim, Balkan, and African) and in so doing demonstrate how an ethnocentric...

... to a transterritory established by the physical, cultural, and imaginative labor of migrants connecting two such spaces, beyond the boundaries of one nation-state. Transnationalism, as a field of studies, has focused on these dynamics. Here they are used to address the question of a possible transnational politics...

... admissibility. The essay explores how the Northern Triangle’s minor—the outré LatinX child—is made into the word on bureaucratic paper. It probes a genealogy of temporary American beginnings and delves into the expulsed Central American child as a newcomer, a migrant, and the beginning of something else...

... of collective histories and political conditions with the individualized experience of migrants, often challenging the ethnonationalist discourses that pervade today’s mediascape. Three recent essays on this topic—Nasia Anam’s “The Migrant as Colonist: Dystopia and Apocalypse in the Literature of Mass...

...Charlotte Sussman Copyright © 2020 Regents of the University of Colorado 2020 Works Cited Anam Nasia . “ The Migrant as Colonist: Dystopia and Apocalypse in the Literature of Mass Migration .” ASAP/Journal 3 , no. 3 ( 2018 ): 653 – 77 . muse.jhu.edu/article/711837 . doi.org...

..., and to notice how meaningful state-issued identity documents became in both cases. The politics of papers encompass everything from state border policing and the surveillance of individuals to migrant subjectivities and survival strategies to thorny questions of language and terminology. Fourteen years...

... States were not unified in their responses to the revolution. They were a diverse group marked by differences in key elements of identity formation, such as class, race, and regional background, and comprising an array of subject positions as migrants, immigrants, exiles, and deeply rooted residents who...

... of Latinx life in the US-Mexico borderlands narrated in Américo Paredes’s George Washington Gómez: A Mexicotexan Novel and Jovita González and Eve Raleigh’s Caballero: A Historical Novel —both drafted in the 1930s but unpublished until the 1990s. The medicalization of Mexican immigrants and migrant...

... the Borneo jungle to resurface the materiality of its borderlands, commemorating its loss due to the impact of a protracted jungle war. Yet in so doing, it argues for a transformative ecological relation for the Sinophone migrant, which begins from an understanding of Borneo as a land irreducible...

... at www.colorado.edu/english-language-notes/read . With this in mind, I have chosen for examination in this inaugural issue of “Of Note” three essays on just such an idea: migration and literature. The essays include Nasia Anam’s “The Migrant as Colonist: Dystopia and Apocalypse in the Literature of Mass Migration...

... Control .” German Life and Letters 66 , no. 3 ( 2013 ): 292 – 307 . Gundogdu Ayten . Rightlessness in an Age of Rights: Hannah Arendt and the Contemporary Struggles of Migrants . New York : Oxford University Press , 2015 . Holcomb Gary Edward . Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha...

... at the August 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, closes the first section. Combined, the pieces foreground the very processes of abjectification that Latinx bodies endure under the signs of citizenship, legality, and naturalization. Migrant bodies are marked bodies, X’s already X’d out—often through...

...,” 12 the onset of “petromodernity,” 13 precarious migrant labor, the production of civil conflicts, 14 commodity capitalism stitched together by huge communication and transportation networks, and new, extraterritorial zones of free trade. As the architectural theorist Keller Easterling has...

... borders and narratives. For this reason and for its political urgency, Latinx studies needs to maintain recourse to the US nation, despite the field necessarily operating as methodologically transnational. Works Cited Camacho Alicia Schmidt . Migrant Imaginaries: Latino Cultural Politics...

... and Networks of Rural-Urban Migrants in The Fox from Up Above and the Fox from Down Below (1971), by José María Arguedas,” discusses the representation of Indigenous-inspired authorial figures in Arguedas’s novel about the highland rural migrants in the coastal city of Chimbote, Peru. A bicultural...

... that is never too far from the narrative’s surface. Mary Dewhurst Lewis’s fascinating study of policing of migrants in interwar Marseille offers a helpful frame for McKay’s depiction of his characters’ relationship with the city’s authorities. Lewis notes that in the 1920s and 1930s, although most...

... alongside McKay’s earlier Marseille novel Banjo to argue that McKay depicts surveillance as a set of overlapping practices by various agents—the state, the transnational corporation, and a range of other private interests—that constrain the flourishing of Black migrant lives in the transatlantic world...

... to 1960: A Brief History and Comprehensive Bibliography . Houston : Arte Público , 2000 . Lomas Laura . Translating Empire: José Martí, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American Modernities . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2008 . Lukács Georg . History and Class Consciousness...

... Medieval Sovereignties,” organized by Mo Pareles, Robert Rouse, and Wallace Cleaves (Tongva), and “We’re All Migrants, What Now? Borders and Indigeneity in the Middle Ages and Today,” organized by Dongwon Esther Kim and Kathryn Maude, both presented at the 2019 IONA Conference, Seafaring ; Marjorie...