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  1. When the First World Becomes the Third: The Paradox of Collapsed Borders in Two Novels by Gabriela Alemán
  2. John D. "Rio" Riofrio
  3. pp. 13-34
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.0.0065
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  1. Disabling La Frontera: Disability, Border Subjectivity, and Masculinity in "Big Jesse, Little Jesse" by Oscar Casares
  2. Julie Avril Minich
  3. pp. 35-52
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.0.0068
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  1. Narrative Coyotes: Migration and Narrative Voice in Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo
  2. Heather Alumbaugh
  3. pp. 53-75
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.0.0070
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  1. Oscar "Zeta" Acosta's American Odyssey
  2. Marci L. Carrasquillo
  3. pp. 77-97
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.0.0072
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  1. The Making of an American: Counternarration in Louis Adamic's Laughing in the Jungle and Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers
  2. Kevin Piper
  3. pp. 99-118
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.0.0074
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  1. Writing from the Margins of the Margins: Michael Gold's Jews Without Money and Claude McKay's Home to Harlem
  2. Catherine Rottenberg
  3. pp. 119-140
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.0.0076
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  1. Recollecting, Repeating, and Walking Through: Immigration, Trauma, and Space in Mary Antin's The Promised Land
  2. Jolie A. Sheffer
  3. pp. 141-166
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.0.0079
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  1. "The breath is alive / with the equal girth of words": Tino Villanueva in Interview
  2. A. Robert Lee
  3. pp. 167-183
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.0.0067
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  1. Writing the Future of Black America: Literature of the Hip-Hop Generation (review)
  2. Beauty Bragg
  3. pp. 184-186
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.0.0071
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  1. A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism (review)
  2. Catherine Fung
  3. pp. 187-189
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.0.0075
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  1. Near Black: White-to-Black Passing in American Culture (review)
  2. David Todd Lawrence
  3. pp. 190-192
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.0.0078
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  1. From Globalization to National Liberation: Essays of Three Decades (review)
  2. Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao
  3. pp. 193-195
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.0.0073
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  1. Moving Encounters: Sympathy and the Indian Question in Antebellum Literature (review)
  2. Christopher Allan Black
  3. pp. 196-198
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.0.0069
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  1. Editor's Introduction: Transgressing the Borders of "America"
  2. Martha J. Cutter
  3. pp. 5-12
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.0.0077
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 199-202
  3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.0.0066
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