MELUS
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I. Basic Journal Info

Country

United States

Journal ISSN: 0163755X, 19463170

Publisher: Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States

History: 1974-1975, 1977-1985, 1987, 1989-1990, 1992-1995, 2011-2021

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Scope/Description:

MELUSa prestigious and rigorous journal in the field of multiethnic literature of the United States has been a vital resource for scholarship and teaching for more than forty years. Published quarterly MELUS illuminates the national international and transnational contexts of US ethnic literature.Articles in MELUS also engage newly emerging art forms such as graphic narrative and internet blogs as well as multiethnic film history and culture. By including interviews with wellestablished authors such as Maxine Hong Kingston and Richard Rodriguez as well as more recent writers such as Cynthia Kadohata and Diana AbuJaber MELUS plays a pivotal role in the field of US Ethnic Literature and is an indispensable resource for students teachers and scholars.The journal is sponsored by the Society for the Study of the MultiEthnic Literature of the United States. Founded in 1973 the society endeavors to expand the definition of American literature through the study and teaching of Latinao American Native American African American Asian and Pacific American and ethnically specific EuroAmerican literary works their authors and their cultural contexts.