Books in the Series:

Chinatown Family
Lin Yutang
Edited and with an introduction by C. Lok Chua

Daughter of the Revolution: The Major Nonfiction Works of Pauline E. Hopkins
Edited and with an introduction by Ira Dworkin

Empire and the Literature of Sensation: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction
Edited and with an introduction by Jesse Alemán and Shelley Streeby

Holy Prayers in a Horse's Ear
Kathleen Tamagawa
Edited and with an introduction by Greg Robinson and Elena Tajima Creef

A Long Way from Home
Claude McKay
Edited by Gene Andrew Jarrett

Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance
Edited and with an introduction by Maureen Honey

Visions and Divisions
Edited by Tim Prchal and Tony Trigilio

Zora Neale Hurston
Edited and with an introduction by Jean Lee Cole and Charles Mitchell

"This series sounds outstanding! It will be an important and prestigious venture-this puts Rutgers University Press at the cutting edge of a project that will be increasingly central to the academic profession."-Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Stanford University

Scope of the Series:

This exciting new publishing endeavor, which will be launched in 2006, aims to expand and deepen our sense of American literatures as multi-cultural and multi-lingual and will contribute to a broader understanding of "America" as a complex site for the creation of national, transnational, and global narratives. Series volumes will focus on the recovery, consolidation, and re-evaluation of literary expression in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean as shaped by the experience of race, ethnicity, national origin, region, class, gender, and language. The series will address all historical periods, and in doing so presents a unique opportunity to revolutionize the entire field of American studies.

The MELA Series has two major aims. First, it seeks to make available neglected or lost texts by bringing into print previously unpublished or out-of-print works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and drama, written in or translated into English. Second, it encourages the compilation of multi-ethnic readers/anthologies organized around a single author, a historical period, a movement, an ethnic literature, or a theoretical or thematic paradigm. These anthologies may employ a variety of methods and viewpoints in reconstructing the literary cultures of the Americas-in conversation with one another and with the rest of the world.

Both the reprint volumes and anthologies are aimed at general audiences, even as they primarily address the need for a diverse curriculum that speaks to the widening range of experiences and histories of our students today. Each volume in the series will include an introduction providing appropriate historical background and cultural context, along with notes and other editorial apparatus.

Submission Information:

For general information and guidelines, contact Leslie Mitchner, Associate Director and Editor in Chief, Rutgers University Press, (732) 445-7762 x601; lmitch@rci.rutgers.edu

For specific queries about manuscript submission, contact one of the series editors:
Amritjit Singh: asingh@ric.edu
Carla L. Peterson: cp10@umail.umd.edu
C. Lok Chua: chengc@csufresno.edu