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Contents
An Interview with August Wilson, conducted by Bonnie Lyons
Excremental Postcolonialism, by Joshua D. Esty
Looting American Culture: Bharati Mukherjee’s Immigrant Narratives by Jennifer Drake
"Jazz America”: Jazz and African American Culture in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, by Douglas Malcolm
William S. Burroughs’s Phantasmic Geography, by Kathryn Hume
The Public Sphere–Present Tense, by Bruce Burgett
| (Review of The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship, by Lauren Berlant [Duke, 1997] and Uncivil Rites: American Fiction, Religion, and the Public Sphere, by Robert Detweiler [Illinois, 1996]) |
| (Review of Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment, ed. Mike Featherstone and Roger Burrows [SAGE, 1995] and Virtual Realities and Their Discontents, ed. Robert Markley [Johns Hopkins, 1996]) |
| (Review of Narrating Postmodern Time and Space, by Joseph Francese [SUNY, 1997], Literary Theory and the Claims of History: Postmodernism, Objectivity, Multicultural Politics, by Satya P. Mohanty [Cornell, 1997], and A Primer to Postmodernity, by Joseph Natoli [Blackwell, 1997]) |
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An Interview with Rita Dove, conducted by Malin Pereira
Jefferson at the Millennial Gates: History and Apocalypse in the Fiction of Steve Erickson, by Lee Spinks
How Global Is It: Walter Abish and the Fiction of Globalization, by Thomas Peyser
Form Matters: Toni Morrison’s Sula and the Ethics of Narrative, by Axel Nissen
Elizabeth Bishop’s “Queer Birds”: Vassar, Con Spirito, and the Romance of Female Community, by Bethany Hicock
Nuclear Criticism, by Walter Kalaidjian| (Review of Nuclear Annihilation and Contemporary American Poetry: Ways of Nothingness, by John Gery [Florida, 1996] and Dr. Strangelove's America: Society and Culture in the Atomic Age, by Margot A. Henriksen [California, 1997]) |
Ritualists and Mythologists, by Henry Hart
| (Review of Approaching Prayer: Ritual and the Shape of Myth in A. R. Ammons and James Dickey, by Robert Kirschten [LSU, 1998]) |
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An Interview with Rosmarie Waldrop, conducted by Joan Retallack
The Uses of Blood in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead, by Jane Olmsted
Making "Gay" and "Lesbian" into Household Words: How Serial Form Works in Tales of the City, by Robyn R. Warhol
Rethinking Ambivalence: Technopolitics and the Luddites in William Gibson and Bruce Sterling’s The Difference Engine, by Nicholas Spencer
Bearing Witness to Apartheid: J. M. Coetzee’s Inconsolable Works of Mourning, by Samuel Durrant
British Poetry since 1950: Recent Criticism, and the Laureateship, by Patrick Deane| (Review of Contemporary British Poetry: Essays in Theory and Criticism, ed. James Acheson and Romana Huk [SUNY, 1996]; The Poetry of Ted Hughes: Language, Illusion and Beyond, by Paul Bentley [Longman, 1998]; Tony Harrison: Loiner, ed. Sandie Byrne [Clarendon, 1997]; A Study of Cultural Centres and Margins in British Poetry since 1950: Poets and Publishers, by Rob Jackaman [Mellen, 1995]; The Challenge of Ted Hughes, ed. Keith Sagar [St. Martin's, 1994]; and Out of Reach: The Poetry of Philip Larkin, by Andrew Swarbrick [St. Martin's, 1997]) |
| (Review of Patterns of Ambivalence: The Fiction and Poetry of Stevie Smith, by Catherine A. Civello [Camden, 1997] and Stevie Smith's Resistant Antics, by Laura Severin [Wisconsin, 1997]) |
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An Interview with Lydia Davis, conducted by Christopher J. Knight
Shifting Legacies in Lucille Clifton's Generations, by Cheryl A. Wall
Recovered Perspectives: Gender, Class, and Memory in Pat Barker's Writing, by John Kirk
Imagining Jews in Philip Roth's Operation Shylock, by Timothy L. Parrish
Mapping the Misreadings: Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, and Nationhood, by Raphaël Ingelbien
The Anti-Aesthetic: "Too Literal for Art, Too Visual for Porn," by Paula E. Geyh
| (Review of Bad Girls and Sick Boys: Fantasies in Contemporary Art and Culture, by Linda S. Kauffman [California, 1998]) |
| (Review of As We Are Now: Mixblood Essays on Race and Identity, ed. William S. Penn [California, 1997] and Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Literature, by Jeanne Rosier Smith [California, 1997]) |
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