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  1. Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Slavery?: The Problem and Promise of Mothering in Octavia E. Butler’s “Bloodchild”
  2. Kristen Lillvis
  3. pp. 7-22
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  1. “New Negro” Men, World War I, and African American Masculinity in Guy Johnson’s Standing at the Scratch Line
  2. Tuire Valkeakari
  3. pp. 50-68
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  1. The Blues Tribute Poem and the Legacies of Gertrude “Ma” Rainey and Bessie Smith
  2. Emily Rutter
  3. pp. 69-91
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  1. Jean Toomer, Sojourner: Striking Experience in the South and Southwest
  2. Carolyn Dekker
  3. pp. 92-113
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  1. Manchild in the Compromised Land: Intertextuality and Arna Bontemps’s Lonesome Boy
  2. Nancy Kang
  3. pp. 114-139
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  1. The Politics and Poetics of Transliteration in the Works of Olga Broumas and George Economou
  2. George Fragopoulos
  3. pp. 140-161
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  1. Weaving Transnational Cultural Identity through Travel and Diaspora in Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo
  2. Tereza M. Szeghi
  3. pp. 162-185
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  1. “I am an American Writer”: An Interview with Daniel Alarcón
  2. Marisel Moreno, Thomas F. Anderson
  3. pp. 186-206
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  1. Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature by Emily J. Lordi (review)
  2. Marvin Campbell
  3. pp. 207-209
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  1. War, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work by Cathy Schlund-Vials (review)
  2. Mariam B. Lam
  3. pp. 210-212
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  1. Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spellbinding Performance in the Asias by Eng-Beng Lim (review)
  2. Cheryl Narumi Naruse
  3. pp. 213-215
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  1. Racial Asymmetries: Asian American Fictional Worlds by Stephen Hong Sohn (review)
  2. Anthony Sze-Fai Shiu
  3. pp. 216-218
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  1. Editor’s Introduction: Gender, Transnationalism, and Ethnic Identity
  2. Gary Totten
  3. pp. 1-6
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 219-222
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