This page gives an overview of our publications and as well as our work in progress.
PUBLISHED AND FORTHCOMING
Books:
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. Forthcoming. Growing Hope: Narratives of Food Justice. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Weik von Mossner, Alexa, Marijana Mikić, and Mario Grill (eds.). 2022. Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology. New York and London: Routledge.
Situated at the intersection of post-classical narratology and context-oriented approaches in race, ethnic, and cultural studies, the contributions to this edited volume interrogate the complex and varied ways in which ethnic American authors use narrative form to engage readers in issues related to race and ethnicity.
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Journal Articles:
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2023. “Tracing Loss in Times of Rapid Climate Change: Figures of Absence in Omar El Akkad’s American War. ” English Studies.
Mikić, Marijana. 2022. “Satirical Afrofuturism, Race, and Emotion in George S. Schuyler’s Black No More.“ Journal of Narrative Theory 52 (1): 25-50.
Mikić, Marijana. 2022. “Arab American Women and the Generational Cycle of Shame: A Cognitive Reading of Etaf Rum’s A Woman Is No Man.“ Orbis Litterarum 77 (2): 114-125. doi.org/10.1111/oli.12321
Mikić, Marijana. 2021. “Mind, Body, and Race in Jessie Redmon Fauset’s Plum Bun.” Anglia 139 (4): 673-690. https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2021-0054 .
Grill, Mario. 2020. “Guilt, Shame, Anger and the Chicana Experience: Cherríe Moraga’s Native Country of the Heart as Voice of Resistance.” Prose Studies 41 (2): 72-92. doi.org/10.1080/01440357.2020.1816874
Małecki, WP, Alexa Weik von Mossner, and Małgorzata Dobrowolska. 2020. “Narrating Human and Animal Oppression: Strategic Empathy and Intersectionalism in Alice Walker’s ‘Am I Blue?’” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 27 (2): 365–84.
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Book Chapters:
Mikić, Marijana. Forthcoming. “The Consequences and Possibilities of Grief in Sherri L. Smith’s Orleans: Environmental Injustice and Black Female Power. In Power in Language, Culture, Literature, and Education, edited by Marta Degani and Werner Delanoy. Tübingen: Narr Francke.
Mikić, Marijana, and Derek C. Maus. 2023. “’Only white folks got the freedom to hate home’: Strategic Empathy and Expanded Intersectionality since Morrison’s Home. In Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison, eds. Linda Wagner-Martin and Kelly Reames. London: Bloomsbury Press.
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2023. “Nourishment for the Mind: Narrating Indian Food as Cultural Memory.” Cultural Memory: From the Sciences to the Humanities, edited by Donald Wehrs, Suzanne Nalbantian and Don Tucker. New York: Routledge.
Weik von Mossner, Alexa, W.P. Malecki, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Marcus Mayorga, and Paul Slovic. ” 2023. “The Reception of Radical Texts: The Complicated Case of Alice Walker’s ‘Am I Blue?’.” in Empirical Ecocriticism: Environmental Narratives for Social Change, edited by Matthew Schneider Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, W. P. Małecki, and Frank Hakemulder. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Grill, Mario. 2022. “Polychronic Narration, Trauma, and Disenfranchised Grief in Mario Alberto Zambrano’s Lotería” In Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology, edited by Alexa Weik von Mossner, Marijana Mikić, and Mario Grill, 48-62. New York and London: Routledge.
Mikić, Marijana. 2022. “Race, Trauma, and the Emotional Legacies of Slavery in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing.” In Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology, edited by Alexa Weik von Mossner, Marijana Mikić, and Mario Grill, 100-115. New York and London: Routledge.
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2022. “Introduction: Narrative Encounters with Ethnic American Literatures.” In Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology, edited by Alexa Weik von Mossner, Marijana Mikić, and Mario Grill. New York and London: Routledge.
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2022. “Stories, Love, and Baklava: Narrating Food in Diana Abu Jaber’s Culinary Memoirs.” In Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology., edited by Alexa Weik von Mossner, Marijana Mikić, and Mario Grill, 133-148. New York and London: Routledge.
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Reviews:
Grill, Mario. 2020. “Gradual Losses.” Focus on Latinx Literature, edited by Frederick Luis Aldama. American Book Review 41 (2): 9-10.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Books:
Mikić, Marijana. Black Storyworlds: Race, Space, and Emotion in Contemporary African American Literature (WT). Book project. In development.
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Book Chapters:
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. “Identities on the Move: Embodying Popular Culture in Iranian American YA Fiction.” Chapter for the Routledge Companion on Literature and Identity, edited by Don Wehr and Merle Williams. New York and London: Routledge.
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. “Strategic Empathy and Narrative Impact: A Cognitive Analysis of Shaila Abdullah’s Saffron Dreams.” Chapter for Constructing the Other: Empathy and the Ethics of Imagining Difference in Literature, edited by Arnab Dutta Roy and Shailen Mishra.
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