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Coyolxauhqui and Coming of Age in Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street
In an exploration of The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (1984) as a survival narrative, I propose a theory of transformative narrativity, a...
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Introduction: Cicatrix Poetics: Chicana Literary Trauma Studies
Chicana literature often represents gender violence while simultaneously presenting strategies of survival in response. In this book, I aim to...
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“Don’t Fence Me In”: Interiorized Outsides and Japanese American Concentration Camps
The family separation policy that peaked in the summer of 2018 has had an unintended consequence, that of recalling Japanese internment in the 1940s....
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Nonsecular Thirdspaces in Ayad Akhtar’s American Dervish and Homeland Elegies
The increase in the number of Muslim Americans today, particularly those born and brought up in the US, has resulted in the production of literary...
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Isamu: Becoming Nisei
Isamu checked into the desert asylum. Out there, the war was ongoing. They said it would be safer inside. Looking as he did like the enemy, he’d...
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Grief, Hospitality, and the Frontier in Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland (2020)
Chloé Zhao’s award-winning film Nomadland (2020) is partially based on journalist Jessica Bruder’s Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First...
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Riding the Beast: Of Borders, Aliens, and Hospitality in Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive (2019) and Tell Me How It Ends (2017)
In Borderlands/La frontera, published in 1987, Gloria Anzaldúa described the US-Mexico border as “una herida abierta,” an open wound where “the Third...
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Cartographies of Inclusion/Exclusion and Contested Belongings in Raquel Cepeda’s Bird of Paradise: How I Became a Latina
The rise of bordering processes within urban spaces underscores the need to re-evaluate a politics of space that reveals ethical lapses in...
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Hardly Workin; or, the Valences of Productivism in Campus Novels
This final chapter studies the academic novel’s thorough aversion to work. Whether their protagonists are faculty or students, the novels’ plots...
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Algebraic Structures and Metaphor in Gravity’s Rainbow
This chapter examines intersections of mathematics and literature within encyclopedic narratives by Thomas Pynchon. My interdisciplinary approach...
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Trouble in Paradise: Pride and Prejudice as Vampire Romance
After Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight (2005), Austen fanfic authors have turned their hand to reimagining the greatest love story of all, Pride and...
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Introductions to the American Campus Novel
The introduction establishes “Exemption” as the fulcrum for the campus novel’s ambivalent politics. The chapter explores unique arguments regarding...
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Conclusion: An Unlikely Confluence
This conclusion considers the various ways in which Austen-vampire mashups reflect changing cultural conditions. First, they mark the collision of...
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Bayou St. John Stories
This chapter will examine three Chopin stories that are set in the Bayou St. John neighborhood, which is found in the middle of the city of New...
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“Her position in the universe”: The Awakening’s Edna Pontellier and New Orleans
This study culminates in an examination of Kate Chopin’s depictions of New Orleans in her most well-known narrative, the 1899 novel The Awakening. Of...
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Satirizing Gender Expectations: Fanny Fern as the Impossible Subject
This chapter examines at length the core topic for Parton as satirist: gendered expectations for behavior, which entails exploring masculinity as...
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Sara Payson Willis Parton’s (Comic) Preacher, Fanny Fern
This chapter shows Parton the comic writer functioning in the role of what William Thackeray called “the humorist writer [as] the week-day preacher.”...
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Fanny Fern’s Significance in the American Comic Tradition
This chapter argues that Parton offers a unique model for antebellum comic writers. Her Fanny Fern persona dramatizes a woman writing satire without...
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Philosophical Literature
This chapter opens with a biographical consideration of Richard Wright that analyzes the economic penury and lack of dignity allotted to...