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MARIE ARANA
“We Are a Nation of Many Voices,” Vol. 2, No. 1,’ p. 31

CAROL SNOW MOON BACHOFNER
“Whose Voice Is Singing?,” Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 111

KAREN BEATTY
“Anything Can Happen Day — September 11, 2001,” Vol. 3, No. 3, p. 87

DAVID BERGMAN
“The Gay & Lesbian Presence in American Literature,” Vol. 2, No. +2, p. 38

REMICA L. BINGHAM
“In Search of the “Shiny Man”: Identity and Spirituality
In August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” Vol. 2, No. 4, p. 69

KIMBERLY M. BLAESER
“A Storied Identity,” Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 35

BETH BRANT/DEGONWADONTI
“To Be or Not To Be Has Never Been the Question,” Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 96

MARK CRANE
“A New Definition of Multicultural Literature,” Vol. 2, No. 1, p. 73

LEAH CREQUE-HARRIS
“The Love of My Life Is My Religion: The Spiritual Commitment of
Zora Neale Hurston in Their Eyes Were Watching God,” Vol. 2, No. 4, p. 49

GABRIELLE DAVID
“Multiculturalism – Beyond The Melting Pot,” Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 14

DREW DAVIDSON
“Academia: Images, Sounds and Motions in Academic Discourse,” Vol. 2, No. 3, p.55

DEBRA KANG DEAN
“In The Valley of its Saying, Vol. 3, No. 1, p. 28

LEILA DIAB
“A Question of Identity: A Story behind a Story;
A Palestinian Woman’s Rite of Passage,” Vol. 3, No. 3, p. 164

MORRIS DICKSTEIN
“Ghost Stories: The New Wave of Jewish Writing,” Vol. 3, No. 3, p. 125

THOM DONOVAN
“On Ekphrasis, Vol. 2, No. 3, p. 33

MIMI FEREBEE
“Richard Wright’s Native Son: A Literary Locomotive on Contemporary Tracks,” Vol. 3, No. 2, p. 107

BASSAM K. FRANGIEH
“Modern Arabic Poetry: Vision & Reality,” Vol. 3, No. 3, p. 124

WENDY T. HOUSE
“One,” Vol. 3, No. 3, p. 217

NAN HUNT
“Fighting With The Dark,” Vol. 3, No. 3, p. 87

ANDREW P. JACKSON (Sekou Molefi Baako)
“In the Tradition: The Legacy of Cultural Messengers
from Langston Hughes to Tupac Shakur,” Vol. 2, No. 4, p. 61

REBECCA KAYE
“Introducing Bridging the Cultural Divide,” Vol. 3, No. 3, p. 120

ANALOUISE KEATING
“Gloria Anzaldúa: Queer Theory’s Other Mother,” and Lover, Vol. 2, No. 2, p. 52

JUDY LABENSOHN
“49 Bethlehem Road LAW OF RETURN,” Vol. 3, No. 3, p. 64

THABITI LEWIS
“Sam Greenlee Makes a New World in
The Spook Who Sat By The Door,” Vol. 2, No. 4, p. 73

DAVID LISBONA
“Falling Asleep on the Watch,” Vol. 3, No. 3, p. 64

NADIA MAIWANDI
“The Afghan-American Response,” Vol. 3, No. 3, p. 64

LISA SUHAIR MAJAJ
“The Hyphenated Author: Emerging Genre of ‘Arab-American Literature’
Poses Questions of Definition, Ethnicity and Art,”
Vol. 3, No. 3, p. 121

BETH McCLELLAND
“Life in the 1960s,” Vol. 3, No. 2, p. 32

JIM McGARRAH
“Call & Response,” Vol. 3, No. 2, p. 100

DEBORAH A. MIRANDA
“What’s Wrong With A Little Fantasy?,” Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 69

PETRA NEWMAN
“Spring,” Vol. 3, No. 1, p. 34

STEVE NEWMAN
“Ernest Hemingway & The Spanish Civil War,” Vol. 3, No. 1, p. 64

NAOMI SHIHAB NYE
“To Any Would-Be Terrorists,” Vol. 3, No. 3, p. 86

LIZ PINTO
“Keeping Tradition Alive,” Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 132

KENDA ROBERTSON
“My View of Spring,” Vol. 3, No. 1, p. 35

JAMES RUPPERT
“Listen for Sounds: An Introduction to Alaska Native Poets
Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Fred Bigjim, and Robert Davis,”
Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 121

N S
“Self-)translation : an expropriation of intimacies,” Vol. 2, No. 2, p. 48

ZOHRA SAED & SAHAR MURADI
“Exploring the Genesis of Afghan American Literature,” Vol. 3, No. 3, p. 123

KALAMU YA SALAAM
“The Black Arts Movement: An Historical Perspective,” Vol. 3, No. 2, p. 46

RANEN OMER-SHERMAN
“Jewish & Muslim Hybridity in Recent Israeli Short Fiction,” Vol. 3, No. 3, p. 122

JED SKINNER
“The Beats & Sixties Counterculture,” Vol. 3, No. 2, p. 38

BLAKE SLONECKER
“We Are Marshall Bloom: Sexuality, Suicide and
the Collective Memory of the Sixties,” Vol. 3, No. 2, p. 119

HIMANSHU SURI
“Post 9/11 All Over Again: The Hate-Mongers Who Bombarded the
Internet After Osama bin Laden’s Death,” Vol. 3, No. 3, p. 218

JOSEPH S. WALKER
“Disaster Girl,” Vol. 3, No. 3, p. 216

RYAN WELSH
“ekphrasis,” Vol. 2, No. 3, p. 32

THERESA ANN WHITE
“Understanding ekphrastic poetry,” Vol. 2, No. 3, p. 33

DAVID S. WILLS
“What is a Beat?,” Vol. 3, No. 2, p. 38

NORMA C. WILSON
“Leslie Silko’s Novels as Acts of Resistance,” Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 127

DAVID WULF
“Multiculturalism: The Identity of Minority Groups in America,” Vol. 2, No. 1, p. 73

DAVID ZINSER
“Multiculturalism: Commodifying Diversity through Institutionalized Lamp Blackness,” Vol. 2, No. 1, p. 72