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Volume 52 - 2006


[Issue 1  2  3  4]

Issue 1

Editor: John N. Duvall
Associate Editor: Nancy J. Peterson
General Issue

(Note: This entire volume is available online through Project Muse)

Author Title Pages
Lewis MacLeod "Do We of Necessity Become Puppets in a Story?" or Narrating the World: On Speech, Silence, and Discourse in J. M. Coetzee's Foe 1-18
Kimberly J. Devlin The Scopic Drive and Visual Projection in Heart of Darkness 19-41
Jane Lilienfeld "To have the reader work with the author": The Circulation of Knowledge in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and Toni Morrison's Jazz 42-65
Scott Herring Catherian Friendship; or, How Not to Do the History of Homosexuality 66-91
Ella Zohar Ophir Toward a Pitiless Fiction: Abstraction, Comedy, and Modernist Anti-Humanism 92-120
Bev Hogue Naming the Bones: Bodies of Knowledge in Contemporary Fiction 121-142
Jane Elliott Time of Death: The End of the 1960s and the Problem of Feminist Futurity in The Women's Room and Vida 143-168
Jeffrey Louis Decker Review Essay: Saint Oprah 169-178
Sharon Jessee Review Essay: "Git Way Inside Us, Keep Us Strong": Toni Morrison and the Art of Critical Production 179-186
Susan Osborn Review Essay: Reconsidering Elizabeth Bowen 187-197
  Book Reviews 198-256
  Contributors 257-258

 

Issue 2

Editors: John N. Duvall and Nancy J. Peterson
Special Issue: Toni Morrison

Author Title Pages

Nancy J. Peterson

Introduction: On Incendiary Art, the Moral Imagination, and Toni Morrison 261-269
Candace M. Jenkins Pure Black: Class, Color, and Intraracial Politics in Toni Morrison's Paradise 270-296
Stéphane Robolin 

Loose Memory in Toni Morrison's Paradise and Zoë Wicomb's David's Story

297-320
Carola Hilfrich Anti-Exodus: Countermemory, Gender, Race, and Everyday Life in Toni Morrison's Paradise 321-349
Timothy Aubry Beware the Furrow of the Middlebrow: Searching for Paradise on The Oprah Winfrey Show 350-373
Chuck Jackson "A Headless Display": Sula, Soldiers, and Lynching   374-392

Yogita Goyal

The Gender of Diaspora in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby 393-414

Dean Franco

What We Talk about When We Talk about Beloved 415-439
Megan Sweeney "Something Rogue": Commensurability, Commodification, Crime, and Justice in Toni Morrison's Later Fiction 440-469
Andrew Scheiber Jazz and the Future Blues: Toni Morrison's Urban Folk Zone 470-494
Lenore Kitts Toni Morrison and "Sis Joe": Beloved's Songs in Black and White 495-523
Robert Fallon Music and the Allegory of Memory in Margaret Garner 524-541
  Contributors 542-543


Issue 3

Editor: John N. Duvall
Associate Editor: Nancy J. Peterson
General Issue

Author Title Pages
John N. Duvall Editor's Note 545-547
Christopher Peterson Beloved’s Claim 548-569
Susan Tomlinson  “Curiously Without Body”: The Hidden Language of Zona Gale’s Faint Perfume 570-587
Jonathan Greenberg  Nathaniel West and the Mystery of Feeling 588-612
Scott A. Dimovitz  Public Personae and the Private I: De-Compositional Ontology in Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy 613-633
Natasa Kovacevic

History on Speed: Media and the Politics of Forgetting in Milan Kundera's Slowness

634-655
Jennifer Shaddock Dreams of Melanesia: Masculinity and the Exorcism of War in Pat Barker’s The Ghost Road 656-674
Hsuan L. Hsu Mimicry, Spatial Captation, and Feng Shui in Han Ong’s The Fixer 675-704
William B. Covey Review Essay: Reckoning Day:  Race, Representation, and Redress in Women’s Literature and Film 705-715
  Book Reviews 716-763
  Contributors 764-765

Issue 4

Guest Editors: Hillary Chute and Marianne DeKoven
Special Issue: Graphic Narrative

Author Title Pages
Hillary Chute and Marianne DeKoven Introduction: Graphic Narrative 767-782
Art Spiegelman Letter to the Jury 783-786
Jared Gardner Archives, Collectors, and the New Media Work of Comics 787-806
Nathalie Op de Beeck Found Objects (Jem Cohen, Ben Katchor, Walter Benjamin) 807-831
David Coughlan Paul Auster’s City of Glass: The Graphic Novel 832-854
Richard Walsh

The Narrative Imagination across Media

855-868
Thomas Bredehoft Comics Architecture, Multidimensionality, and Time: Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth 869-890
Daniel Worden The Shameful Art: McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Comics, and the Politics of Affect 891-917
Jennifer D. Ryan Black Female Authorship and the African American Graphic Novel: Historical Responsibility in Icon: A Hero's Welcome 918-947
Theresa Tensuan Comic Visions and Revisions in the Work of Lynda Barry and Marjane Satrapi 947-964
Gillian Whitlock Autographics: The Seeing "I" of the Comics 965-979
Kristiaan Versluys Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers: 9/11 and the Representation of Trauma 980-1003
Hillary Chute An Interview with Alison Bechdel 1004-1013
Hillary Chute Review Essay: Decoding Comics 1014-1027
  Contributors 1028-1030

 

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