Contemporary Literature, vol. 44

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vol. 44, no. 1 (Spring 2003)

Contents

An Interview with Drew Hayden Taylor, conducted by Birgit Däwes  (pp. 118)

Spun Puns (and Anagrams): Exchange Economies, Subjectivity, and History in Harryette Mullen's Muse & Drudge, by Mitchum Huehls  (pp. 1946)

History in Rags: Adam Thorpe's Reworking of England's National Past, by Ingrid Gunby  (pp. 4772)

Phallicism and Ambivalence in Alice Munro's "Bardon Bus", by Elizabeth Shih  (pp. 73105)

Postmodern Amnesia: Tim O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods, by Timothy Melley  (pp. 106–31)

Writing about the Inconceivable, by Elaine M. Kauvar  (pp. 132–50)
   (Review of Between Witness and Testimony: The Holocaust and the Limits of Representation, by Michael Bernard-Donals and Richard Glejzer [State University of New York, 2001], Writing History, Writing Trauma, by Dominick La Capra [Johns Hopkins, 2001], and Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation, by Michael Rothberg [Minnesota, 2000])

History Itself? or, The Romance of Postmodernism, by Brian McHale  (pp. 151–61)
   (Review of Sublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction, by Amy J. Elias [Johns Hopkins, 2001])

Multiplying Modernisms, by Nick LoLordo  (162–71)
   (Review of 21st-Century Modernism: The "New" Poetics, by Marjorie Perloff [Blackwell, 2002] and Extraordinary Measures: Afrocentric Modernism and Twentieth-Century American Poetry, by Lorenzo Thomas [Alabama, 2000])

Astonishment and Experimentation, by Juliana Spahr  (172–75)
   (Review of We Who Love to Be Astonished: Experimental Women's Writing and Performance Poetics, ed. Laura Hinton and Cynthia Hogue [Alabama, 2002])

Evanescence, Language, and Dread: Reading Don DeLillo, by Thomas Carmichael  (176–80)
   (Review of Don DeLillo: The Physics of Language, by David Cowart [Georgia, 2002] and American Magic and Dread: Don DeLillo's Dialogue with Culture, by Mark Osteen [Pennsylvania, 2000])


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vol. 44, no. 2 (Summer 2003)

Contents

An Interview with Edwidge Danticat, conducted by Bonnie Lyons  (pp. 183–98)

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace and the South African Pastoral, by Rita Barnard  (pp. 199–224)

Deconstructing a Secret History: Trace, Translation, and Crypto-Judaism in Achy Obejas's Days of Awe, by Maya Socolovsky  (pp. 225–49)

Pynchon's Ghosts, by Daniel Punday  (pp. 250–74)

"Writing at the Edge": Gillian Clarke's Cofiant, by Michael Thurston  (pp. 275–300)

Bishop, Dewey, Darwin: What Other People Know, by Frances Dickey  (pp. 301–31)

Angela Carter and Kathy Acker: Not a Eulogy, by Betsy Draine  (pp. 332–39)
   (Review of Tactical Readings: Feminist Postmodernism in the Novels of Kathy Acker and Angela Carter, by Nicola Pitchford [Bucknell, 2002] and New Casebooks: Angela Carter, ed. Alison Easton [St. Martin's, 2000])

Telling Tales about Angela Carter, by Harriet Kramer Linkin  (pp. 340–44)
   (Review of Angela Carter and the Fairy Tale, ed. Danielle M. Roemer and Cristina Bacchilega [Wayne State, 2001])

Casaubon Revamped: Contemporary Adventures in the Archive, by Jackie Buxton  (pp. 345–52)
   (Review of Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction, by Suzanne Keene [Toronto, 2001])

A New Study of Eudora Welty's Life and Writing, by Peter Schmidt  (pp. 353–61)
   (Review of One Writer's Imagination: The Fiction of Eudora Welty, by Suzanne Marrs [Louisiana State, 2002])

Process and Plurality in New York's Urban Pastoral, by Timothy Gray  (pp. 332–78)
   (Review of The Scene of My Selves: New Work on New York School Poets, ed. Terrence Diggory and Stephen Paul Miller [National Poetry Foundation, 2001] and In the Process of Poetry: The New York School and the Avant-GardeRomances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction, by William Watkin [Bucknell, 2001])


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vol. 44, no. 3 (Fall 2003)

Contents

An Interview with Cyrus Cassells, conducted by Malin Pereira  (pp. 381–98)

Samuel Beckett's Spectres du noir: The Being of Painting and the Flatness of Film, by Alan Ackerman  (pp. 399–441)

"Repeating Patterns" and Textual Pleasures: Reading (in) A. S. Byatt's Possession: A Romance, by Mark M. Hennelly, Jr.  (pp. 442–71)

"If the City Is a Man": Founders and Fathers, Cities and Sons in John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia Fire, by Mary Paniccia Carden  (pp. 472–500)

Literary Narrative and Information Culture: Garbage, Waste, and Residue in the Work of E. L. Doctorow, by Michael Wutz  (pp. 501–35)

Confronting Chaos, by Joseph Tabbi  (pp. 536–47)
   (Review of Design and Debris: Chaotics of Postmodern American Fiction, by Joseph M. Conte [Alabama, 2002])

"Antimodern" in a Time of Upheaval: Rereading African American Culture of the Sixties, by Andrew Epstein  (pp. 548–58)
   (Review of Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American Culture and the American Sixties, by James C. Hall [Oxford, 2001])

Outsider Theory: A North American Academic Reads South Africa, by Helen Kapstein  (pp. 559–62)
   (Review of Against Normalization: Writing Radical Democracy in South Africa, by Anthony O'Brien [Duke, 2001]


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vol. 44, no. 4 (Winter 2003)

Contents

An Interview with Alasdair Gray and James Kelman, conducted by Tom Toremans  (pp. 565-86)

The Embodied Soul: Animal Being in the Work of J. M. Coetzee, by Louis Tremaine  (pp. 587-612)

Paul Muldoon's Community on the Cusp: Auden and MacNeice in the Manuscripts for "7, Middagh Street," by Brian Cliff  (pp. 613-36)

Masquerade, Hysteria, and Neocolonial Femininity in Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters, by Juliana Chang  (pp. 637-63)

The Dawning of the Age of Aquarius: Abjection, Identity, and the Carnivalesque in Cormac McCarthy's Suttree, by J. Douglas Canfield  (pp. 664-96)

"Dimensions" and John Edgar Wideman's Mental Cosmology, by Kathryn Hume  (pp. 697-726)

Thomas Pynchon's Spectral Politics, by William V. Spanos  (pp. 727-36)
   (Review of Lines of Flight: Discursive Time and Countercultural Desire in the Work of Thomas Pynchon, by Stefan Mattessich [Duke, 2002])

Margaret Atwood: Bringing Back the Treasure, by Susan Strehle  (pp. 737-42)
   (Review of Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing, by Margaret Atwood [Cambridge, 2002] and Margaret Atwood's Textual Assassinations: Recent Poetry and Fiction, ed. Sharon Rose Wilson [Ohio State, 2003])

Erasing the Buddha, by Jonathan Little  (pp. 743-47)
   (Review of Charles Johnson's Fiction, by William R. Nash [Illinois, 2003])

Index and Symptom: "Connective" Reading, (Post)Language Writing, and Cultural Critique, by Jonathan Monroe  (pp. 748-70)
   (Review of Everybody's Autonomy: Connective Reading and Collective Identity, by Juliana Spahr [Alabama, 2001] and Telling It Slant: Avant-Garde Poetics of the 1990s, by Mark Wallace [Alabama, 2002])

Index to Volumes 43 and 44   (pp. 773-79)


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