Vanessa Evans is a settler scholar and assistant professor of Indigenous literatures at Appalachian State University. Her current research focuses on the ways diverse and distinct Indigenous novels from North America, Oceania, and South Asia represent Indigenous resurgence. She is also an associate managing editor for the Journal of Transnational American Studies.
Mita Banerjee is a professor and chair of American studies at the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Her research interests include postcolonial literature, issues of naturalization and citizenship, and medical humanities. She is the author of six monographs, a Principal Investigator in the research unit »Human Differentiation« and co-speaker of the research training group »Life Sciences, Life Writing: Boundary Experiences of Human Life between Biomedical Explanation and Lived Experience,« funded by the German Research Foundation.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Cultures of Citizenship 9
Citizenship in Time 23
John MacKenzie's Letters I Didn't Write 43
Transnational Citizenship and Dreams of Belonging in Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers 57
"Present Absentees, Weak-Kneed Nobodies" 79
"You've Heard It Now" 111
"Clean Body, Clean Mind, Clean Job" 131
Between Imprisonment and Citizenship 155
Paragon of Aging, Paragon of Voting 177
Making Material Borders 195
Citizenship of the Dead 217
"We had to control the narrative" 233
"To Couple the Beauty of the Place and the Harsh Realities of Its Racist History" 251
"What the Eyes Don't See" 271
Foreign Relations 291
"You're My People Now" 311
Contributors 335