Contents

• From the road not taken to the multi-lane highway: Melus, the journal / Veronica Makowsky
• On the trail of the Chicana/o subject: literary texts and contexts in the formation of chicana/o studies / Aureliano Maria DeSoto
• "A house made with stones/full of stories": anthologizing Native American literature / Kristin Czarnecki
• "But is it great?": the question of the canon for Italian American women writers / Mary Jo Bona
• Racial politics and the literary reception of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their eyes were watching God / Stephen Spencer
• De-centering the canon: understanding The great Gatsby as an ethnic novel / Joe Kraus
• An exile’s will to canon and its tension with ethnicity: Li-Young Lee / Wenying Xu
• Canon-openers, book clubs, and middlebrow culture / June Dwyer
• From the boardroom to cocktail parties: "great" books, multiethnic literature, and the production of the professional managerial class in the context of globalization / Sarika Chandra
• It’s just beginning: assessing the impact of the internet on U.S. multiethnic literature and the "canon" / Patricia Keefe Durso