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..., I argue that the final scene o f "Sonny's Blues" revises the tra d itio n o f the frenzy in AfricanA m e rican lite ratu re and m yth by casting th e jazz m usician as a he ro ic healer o f tra u m a tic wounds. Harlem's Affects, Migration, and M em ory B a ld w in fra m e s Harlem as an a ffe ctive...

...Ivan Bonnin; Ismail Oubad Abstract This article reflects on the concept of solidarity in migration and border studies based on an analysis of what happens in the underground of illegalized migration. Through a discussion of three ethnographic case studies, it shows that one of the main features...

... of the text from the perspective of ethnopoetics, focusing on structural and lexical metaphors developed for describing the pathway of the sun. It then offers reflections on the ethnogeography and worldview presented in the text, linking it to Penutian migrations from the western Great Basin into central...

...Rich Cole Abstract This article examines Claude McKay’s 1928 journey to Africa under colonial occupation and uncovers how these true events partly inspired his late work of expatriate fiction, Romance in Marseille . By bringing together migration studies with literary history, the article...

... epistemological frameworks to disrupt normative understandings of home, migration, and diaspora. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Regents...

...David Sartorius Abstract This essay reflects on the materiality of migration with a focus on passports and other kinds of documentary permissions for travel. It argues that throughout the history of the Americas passports have acquired meanings exceeding contemporary associations with national...

... territorial dispossession, migration, and revolution? This essay examines the contributions of border Mexicans to La crónica , an influential Laredo, Texas, newspaper that appeared at least from 1910 to 1914. These “borderlands letrados ” engaged the Mexican nation from positions of opposition during...

...Dana Mihăilescu Abstract This article examines the narrative construction of networks of solidarity and care at the basis of representations of the migration of Ukrainians triggered by Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine. It focuses on two works of Ukrainian refugees who were twelve years old...

... and circulation of the underground knowledge related to mobility. The “right information” is fundamental in determining directions to movement and levels of risk embedded in various routes as well as in constructing specific behaviors and migration careers within the European Union’s border landscape...

...Gabriele Lazzari Copyright © 2020 Regents of the University of Colorado 2020 Although the history of humanity is arguably the history of its global peregrinations, at no other time than today has migration so profoundly shaped our political imaginary and public discourse. As Achille Mbembe...

...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...

...Caren Irr Copyright © 2020 Regents of the University of Colorado 2020 Even as border crises have intensified and travel bans have proliferated around the world during the early 2020s, impressive new scholarship on the literature of migration has been opening prospects for new...

... colonialism, yet the current structures and methodology of how the international community can respond to these crises are themselves deeply embedded in this same colonial legacy. Indeed, the very definition of crisis , in the context of global migration and displacement, is itself inherently political...

...’ Means?” ; Latino USA, “Latinx” ; Reichard, “Why We Say Latinx” ; and Rivas, “What We Mean When We Say Latinx.” 14 Merriman, “Why Are 10,000 Migrant Children Missing in Europe?” 13 Bhabha, Child Migration , 2 . 12 Bhabha, Child Migration , 2 . 11 Nail, Figure...

... 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...

... of solidarity requires real work in the face of different relationships to power and across differing experiences of migration. As Sara Ahmed points out in her elaboration of feminist theory as deriving from everyday life experience: “Solidarity does not assume that our struggles are the same struggles...

... of Latinx peoples remind us that living in the United States at any period has always been a struggle, survival, migration, and returns. It’s been one of anonymity and targeted identification, crossings and dislocations, affirmations and negations, translations and transnationalisms—all under the weight...

... of the University of Colorado 2024 political ecology Chinese migration Southeast Asia Cold War Sinophone literature In Chang Kuei-hsing’s novel, Qun xiang ( Elephant Herd , 1998), in which the protagonist Shi Shicai questions his ecological inheritance as a Sinophone settler descendant in Borneo...

... Migration , and in novels such as Hector Tobar’s Barbarian Nurseries and Cristina Henriquez’s Book of Unknown Americans . In these cultural texts and in many others written and produced elsewhere, actually existing transnationalisms in America, or what I have elsewhere called true Americanism/o, begin...

... 2020 José María Arguedas Indigenismo folklore migration authorship Deeply influenced by Mariátegui’s 1927 thesis about Indigenismo , José María Arguedas (1911–69) sought to vindicate Quechua-speaking people in the context of a Peruvian society characterized by white Creole hegemony...