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Contents
An Interview with Kathleen Fraser, conducted by Cynthia Hogue
Metaphor and Postcoloniality: The Poetry of A. K. Ramanujan, by Jahan Ramazani
The Prodigal: Elizabeth Bishop and Alcohol, by Brett C. Millier
"Unraveling the Deeper Meaning": Exile and the Embodied Poetics of Displacement in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, by Tina Chen
The Black Jesus: Racism and Redemption in John Updike's Rabbit Redux, by Marshall Boswell
!*@*! Realism, by Alison Lee| (Review of Post-War British Fiction: Realism and After, by Andrzej Gasiorek [Edward Arnold, 1995]) |
| (Review of Feminism and the Postmodern Impulse: Post-World War II Fiction, by Magali Cornier Michael [SUNY, 1996]) |
| (Review of Gerald Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition, by Kimberly M. Blaeser [Oklahoma, 1996] and Mediation in Contemporary Native American Fiction, by James Ruppert [Oklahoma, 1995]) |
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An Interview with Stephen Wright, conducted by Thomas Byers, Patrick O'Donnell, and Thomas Schaub
The New American Poetry Revisited, Again, by Alan Golding
"Is the Lan' I Want": Reconfiguring Metaphors and Redefining History in Andrew Salkey's Epic Jamaica, by Michelle DeRose
"Sadism Demands a Story": Oedipus, Feminism, and Sexuality in Gayl Jones's Corregidora and Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina, by Deborah Horvitz
Portrait of the Sexist as a Dying Man: Death, Ideology, and the Erotic in Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theater, by Frank Kelleter
American Fiction and Televisual Consciousness, by Alan Nadel| (Review of Beyond Suspicion: New American Fiction since 1960, by Marc Chénetier [Pennsylvania, 1996] and Deep Surfaces: Mass Culture and History in Postmodern American Fiction, by Philip E. Simmons [Georgia, 1997]) |
| (Review of Manifesto of a Tenured Radical, by Cary Nelson [New York UP, 1997] and Will Teach for Food: Academic Labor in Crisis, ed. Cary Nelson [Minnesota, 1997]) |
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An Interview with Carol Shields, conducted by Donna Krolik Hollenberg
The Messianic Ethnography of Jerome Rothenberg's Poland/1931, by Norman Finkelstein
Lost Time: Trauma and Belatedness in Louis Begley's The Man Who Was Late, by Allan Hepburn
Traversing the Fantasies of the JFK Assassination: Conspiracy and Contingency in Don DeLillo's Libra, by Skip Willman
Poetic Arson and Sylvia Plath's "Burning the Letters," by Lynda K. Bundtzen
Why Can't We Be Friends Now? Caliban's Rage after Empire, by Brian May| (Review of After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie, by Michael Gorra [Chicago, 1997] and Caliban's Curse: George Lamming and the Revisioning of History, by Supriya Nair [Michigan, 1996]) |
| (Review of From Outlaw to Classic: Canons in American Poetry, by Alan Golding [Wisconsin, 1995]) |
| (Review of Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material Word, by Michael Davidson [California, 1997]; Black Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism, by Aldon Lynn Nielsen [Cambridge, 1997]; and The American Poetry Wax Museum: Reality Effects, 1940-1990, by Jed Rasula [NCTE, 1996]) |
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An Interview with Joseph Heller, conducted by Charlie Reilly
Semiotic Shepherds: Gary Snyder, Frank O'Hara, and the Embodiment of an Urban Pastoral, by Timothy Gray
"Gentle Reader, I fain would spare you this, but my pen hath its will like the Ancient Mariner": Narrator(s) and Audience in William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch, by Ron Loewinsohn
Mourning and Metafiction: Carole Maso's The Art Lover, by Grant Stirling
"Apple Pie" Ideology and the Politics of Appetite in the Novels of Toni Morrison, by Emma Parker
Poetry, Feminism, and the Public Sphere, by Kathleen Crown| (Review of Forms of Expansion: Recent Long Poems by Women, by Lynn Keller [Chicago, 1997]; Dwelling in Possibility: Women Poets and Critics on Poetry, ed. Yopie Prins and Maeera Shreiber [Cornell, 1997]; and The Feminist Poetry Movement, by Kim Whitehead [Mississippi, 1996]) |
| (Review of Opposing Poetries. Volume One: Issues and Institutions, by Hank Lazer [Northwestern, 1996] and Opposing Poetries. Volume Two: Readings, by Hank Lazer [Northwestern, 1996]) |
| (Review of The Aztec Palimpsest: Mexico in the Modern Imagination, by Daniel Cooper Alarcón [Arizona, 1997]; Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities, by Alfred Arteaga [Cambridge, 1997]; and Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies, by José David Saldívar [California, 1997]) |
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