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Volume 34 - 1988


[Issue 1  2  3  4]

Issue 1

Guest Editor: Norman Harris
Special Issue: Modern Black Fiction

Author Title Pages
  Contributors 2
Norman Harris Preface 3-4
Tracy Webb The Role of Water Imagery in Uncle Tom's Children 5-16
Jon Wallace The Politics of Style in Three Stories by James Alan McPherson 17-26
Elizabeth B. House Artists and the Art of Living: Order and Disorder in Toni Morrison's Fiction 27-44
Viney Kirpal The Structure of the Modern Nigerian Novel and the National Consciousness 45-54
Alan Nadel Reading the Body: Alice Walker's Meridian and the Archeology of Self 55-68
Daniel W. Ross Celie in the Looking Glass: The Desire for Selfhood in The Color Purple 69-84
Laura Niesen de Abruńa Twentieth-Century Women Writers from the English-Speaking Caribbean 85-96
Theodore O. Mason, Jr. Performance, History, and Myth: The Problem of Ishmael Reed's Mumbo-Jumbo 97-110
Norman Harris The Gods Must Be Angry: Flight to Canada as Political History 111-124
Craig Werner Recent Books on Modern Black Fiction: An Essay-Review 125-135

 

Issue 2

Editor: William T. Stafford
General Issue

Author Title Pages
Cheryl Lester From Place to Place in The Sound and the Fury: The Syntax of Interrogation 141-156
Zoltán Abádi-Nagy An Interview with Raymond Federman 157-170
Dewey Ganzel A Geometry of His Own: Hemingway's "Out of Season" 171-184
Suzanne Kiernan "Ugly by Design": The Fiction of Christina Stead 185-202
Peter J. Gillett James Joyce's Infernal Clock 203-207
Robert Roulston Fitzgerald's "May Day": The Uses of Irresponsibility 207-215
Edward Jamosky and Jerome Klinkowitz Kurt Vonnegut's Three Mother Nights 216-220
  Correspondence 221-222
  Recent Books on Modern Fiction 223-332

 

Issue 3

Guest Editors: Margaret Moan Rowe and Ellen Carol Jones
Special Issue: Feminism and Modern Fiction

Author Title Pages
  Contributors 334
Margaret Moan Rowe Preface 335-336
Margaret Gray-McDonald Marcel's Écriture Féminine 337-352
Ellen G. Friedman "Utterly Other Discourse": The Anti-canon of Experimental Women Writers from Dorothy Richardson to Christine Brooke-Rose 353-370
Bonnie Kime Scott The Word Split Its Husk: Woolf's Double Vision of Modernist Language 371-386
D. S. Neff Two into Three Won't Go: Mimetic Desire and the Dream of Androgyny in Dancing in the Dark 387-404
Toby Silverman Zinman The Good Old Days in The Good Mother 405-412
Alan W. France Misogyny and Appropriation in Wright's Native Son 413-424
Keith Louise Fulton Linda Snopes Kohl: Faulkner's Radical Woman 425-436
Mona Fayad Unquiet Ghosts: The Struggle for Representation in Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea 437-452
Charles Ponnuthurai Sarvan Feminism and African Fiction: The Novels of Mariama Bâ 453-464
Elizabeth Fifer "In Conversation": Gertrude Stein's Speaker, Message, and Receiver in Painted Lace and Other Pieces (1914-1937) 465-480
Molly Hite (En)Gendering Metafiction: Doris Lessing's Rehearsals for The Golden Notebook 481-500
Laura Sue Fuderer Feminist Critical Theory: A Checklist 501-513

 

Issue 4

Editor: William T. Stafford
General Issue

Author Title Pages
Bernard Benstock The Gnomonics of Dubliners 519-540
Jerome Mandel The Grotesque Rose: Medieval Romance and The Great Gatsby 541-558
Laurence A. Breiner Italic Calvino: The Place of the Emperor in Invisible Cities 559-574
Ralph Tutt Stingo's Complaint: Styron and the Politics of Self-Parody 575-586
Richard K. Sanderson The Two Narrators and Happy Ending of Nineteen Eighty-Four 587-596
Jo An Hoeppner Moran E. M. Forster's A Passage to India: What Really Happened in the Caves 596-604
  Correspondence 605
  Recent Books on Modern Fiction 607-759
  Author and Subject Index: Volume 34 760-759

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