From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction: No Good
The sounds that she would expect here are entirely absent. There are no cries, no weeping. Just soothing, muffled tones.
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Posts Tagged: immigration
ENOUGH: Landlines
Before my father killed her, my mother spent her evenings telling me the story of how she came to America. Every night, the way she started was with something new.
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From the Archive: Sunday Rumpus Poetry: Three Poems by Fatimah Asghar
& yes, my family did raise me right. Yes, / they cleaned their bones & cracked them clean / open to suck. Would fight over cartilage & knuckle/Sip the marrow’s nectar from urn. .
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Becoming American in the Age of Trump
How does one come to feel American in the eyes of others?
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Woven Fibers and Broken Threads: Katherine Agyemaa Agard’s of colour
To be imbricated in hundreds of years of colonial violence is to be entangled in colorist logics and stories of loss and belonging that are rarely linear or singular.
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The Burden of Translation: Talking with Leonora Simonovis
Leonora Simonovis discusses her debut collection, STUDY OF THE RAFT.
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The Trauma of Surviving: Tastes Like War by Grace M. Cho
Amid all this survival, Cho carries the reader through with the comfort of food.
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Tongue Stuck
It was a kind of madness to speak a language to my son that I hadn’t used in almost a decade.
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Performing Violence: A Conversation with Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson discusses her debut story collection, MY MONTICELLO.
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Of Language and Lineage: Carlina Duan’s Alien Miss
All the while, the sound of the poetry behind the telling is sharp, rhythmic, and controlled.
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Tracing the Wolf
To brand myself with something I feared and sought to subdue seemed like a reclamation.
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Reinventing the Truth: A Conversation with Anna Qu
Anna Qu discusses her debut memoir, MADE IN CHINA.
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We Are More: Shattering the Ethnic Monolith Myth in The Gimmicks
To say the past is in the past ignores the abundant ways it controls their lived experience.
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Hope Is the Last Bastion: Talking with Suchitra Vijayan
Suchitra Vijayan discusses her new book, MIDNIGHT’S BORDERS.
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Making Space for Curiosity: A Conversation with Pik-Shuen Fung
Pik-Shuen Fung discusses her debut novel, GHOST FOREST.
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That Moment of Transition: Talking with Musa Okwonga
Musa Okwonga discusses IN THE END, IT WAS ALL ABOUT LOVE and ONE OF THEM.
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Pockets of Belonging: Wandeka Gayle’s Motherland: And Other Stories
The characters of Motherland might be displaced, but they are never alone.
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Voices on Addiction: Semillas
I grieve my father’s disembodiment. It is my grief inheritance.
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We Are More: Show Me Your Teeth
Despite growing up in a predominately white suburb, my family never had a white dentist.
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Place, Patois, and a Pinch of Politics: A Conversation with Celeste Mohammed
Celeste Mohammed discusses her debut novel-in-stories, PLEASANTVIEW.
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Carrying the Stories of Our Ancestors: A Conversation with Anjali Enjeti
Anjali Enjeti discusses SOUTHBOUND and THE PARTED EARTH.
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Nepantla and Radical Empathy: Talking with Sergio Troncoso
Sergio Troncoso discusses his new anthology, NEPANTLA FAMILIAS.
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We Are More: The Docent and the Novelist
I’ve been explaining the Armenian Genocide all my life.
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A Space of Unknowing: Talking with Gabriela Garcia
Gabriela Garcia discusses her debut novel, OF WOMEN AND SALT.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Dr. Amra Sabic-El-Rayess
“The difference with memorializing my story is that I have invited others to live it, for a moment.”
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Asking the Right Questions: Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom
Transcendent Kingdom becomes an experiment in itself.
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A Language for Extinction: Zaina Alsous’s A Theory of Birds
And if you ask of her to come to you, her answer is refusal.
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The Fine Line Between Nihilism and Hope: Talking with Ahmed Naji
Ahmed Naji discusses his new memoir, ROTTEN EVIDENCE.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: What Kind of Alone?
Everything old felt far away; everything new felt exhilarating.
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Westward, Onward
It comes down to this: I feel the need to prove I belong here.
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