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Volume 37 - 1991


[Issue 1  2  3  4]

Issue 1

Editor: William J. Stuckey
Special Issue: John Updike

Author Title Pages
  William T. Stafford, 1924-1991 3
  Contributors 4
Matthew Wilson The Rabbit Tetralogy: From Solitude to Society to Solitude Again 5-24
Basem L. Ra'ad Updike's New Versions of Myth in America 25-34
Derek Wright Mapless Motion: Form and Space in Updike's Rabbit, Run 35-44
Stacey Olster Rabbit Rerun: Updike's Replay of Popular Culture in Rabbit at Rest 45-60
Barbara Leckie "The Adulterous Society": John Updike's Marry Me 61-80
John N. Duvall The Pleasure of Textual/Sexual Wrestling: Pornography and Heresy in Roger's Version 81-96
Sanford Pinsker John Updike and the Distractions of Henry Bech, Professional Writer and Amateur American Jew 97-112
Malini Schueller Containing the Third World: John Updike's The Coup 113-128
Jack DeBellis Updike: A Selected Checklist 1974-1990 129-156

 

Issue 2

Editor: William J. Stuckey
General Issue

Author Title Pages
  Contributors 160
Robert Paul Lamb Fishing for Stories: What "Big Two-Hearted River" is Really About 161-182
Barry Stampfl Marlow's Rhetoric of (Self-)Deception in Heart of Darkness 183-196
Debra Shostak "This obsessive reinvention of the real": Speculative Narrative in Philip Roth's The Counterlife 197-216
Lynne S. Vieth The Re-humanization of Art: Pictorial Aesthetics in John Fowles's The Ebony Tower and Daniel Martin 217-234
D. Mesher Covering a Debt: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Francis Cugat 235-239
Miriam Marty Clark Raymond Carver's Monologic Imagination 240-248
  Recent Books on Modern Fiction 249-367
  Correction 370

 

Issue 3

Guest Editor: Shaun F. D. Hughes
Special Issue: Postcolonial African Fiction

Author Title Pages
Shaun F. D. Hughes Preface 377-388

Essays on General Issues

Edward Sackey Oral Tradition and the African Novel 389-408
Benedict M. Ibitokun The Dynamics of Spatiality in African Fiction 409-426
Chinyere Nwahunanya The Aesthetics of Nigerian War Fiction 427-444
Maxine Sample In Another Life: The Refugee Phenomenon in Two Novels of the Nigerian Civil War 445-458

Essays on Chinua Achebe

Kofi Owusu The Politics of Interpretation: The Novels of Chinua Achebe 459-470
Onyemaechi Udumukwu Achebe and the Negation of Independence 471-492
Robin Ikegami Knowledge and Power, the Story and the Storyteller: Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah 493-510

Essays on Other Writers

Charles Ponnuthurai Sarvan M. G. Vassanji's The Gunny Sack: A Reflection on History and the Novel 511-518
Anjali Roy and Viney Kirpal Men as Archetypes: Characterization in Soyinka's Novels 519-528
Ode S. Ogede Patterns of Decadence, Visions of Regeneration in Armah's Fragments 529-548
Chinyere Nwahunanya A Vision of the Idea: Armah's Two Thousand Seasons 549-560
J. O. J. Nwachukwu-Agbada "One Wife be for One Man": Mariama Bâ's Doctrine for Matrimony 561-574
Linda Susan Beard Bessie Head's Syncretic Fictions: The Reconceptualization of Power and the Recovery of the Ordinary 575-590
Paul H. Lorenz Colonization and the Feminine in Bessie Head's A Question of Power 591-608
Kanishka Chowdhury Theoretical Confrontations in the Study of Postcolonial Literatures 609-616
Shaun F. D. Hughes Others' Africas: Recent Critical Studies of African Literature 617-638
  Contributors 639-640

 

Issue 4

Editor: William J. Stuckey
General Issue

Author Title Pages
Eve Bertelsen Veldtanschauung: Doris Lessing's Savage Africa 647-658
Madeleine Sorapure A Story in Love's Default: Andre Brink's States of Emergency 659-676
David Heddendorf The "Octopus" in McTeague: Frank Norris and Professionalism 677-688
Melissa Watts Reinscribing a Dead Author in If On a Winter's Night a Traveler 705-715
William Burke Border Crossings in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping 716-724
  Recent Books on Modern Fiction 725-830

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