Contemporary Literature, vol. 39

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vol. 39, no. 1 (Spring 1998)

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])

The Decentered Subject in Opposition, by Nicola Pitchford
   (Review of Feminism and the Postmodern Impulse: Post-World War II Fiction, by Magali Cornier Michael [SUNY, 1996])

Mediating Narratives of American Indian Identity, by James A. Gray
   (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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vol. 39, no. 2 (Summer 1998)

Contents

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])

"Lepers in the Acropolis": Liberalism, Capitalism, and the Crisis in Academic Labor, by Barbara Foley
   (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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vol. 39, no. 3 (Fall 1998)

Contents

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])

Poetic Canons: Generative Oxymoron or Stalled-Out Dialectic? by Maria Damon
   (Review of From Outlaw to Classic: Canons in American Poetry, by Alan Golding [Wisconsin, 1995])

American Poetry: Accounts of the Present and the Recent Past, by Hank Lazer
   (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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vol. 39, no. 4 (Winter 1998)

Contents

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])

Making Poetry Matter, by Christopher Beach
   (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])

Chicano Studies at the Millennium, by Rafael Pérez-Torres
   (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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