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Volume 39 - 1993


[Issue 1  2  3&4]

Issue 1

Guest Editor: Aparajita Sagar
Special Issue: Fiction on the Indian Subcontinent

Author Title Pages
Aparajita Sagar Introduction 1-16
Geetha Ramanathan Sexual Violence/Textual Violence: Desai's Fire on the Mountain and Shirazi's Javady Alley 17-36
Sangeeta Ray Memory, Identity, Patriarchy: Projecting a Past in the Memoirs of Sara Suleri and Michael Ondaatje 37-58
Amitava Kumar PHOTO ESSAY: Fist is a Flag 59-70
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan The Feminist Plot and the Nationalist Allegory: Home and World in Two Indian Women's Novels in English 71-92
Anuradha Dingwaney Needham Multiple Forms of (National) Belonging: Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column 93-112
Teresa Hubel Charting the Anger of Indian Women through Narayan's Savitri 113-130
D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke The 1971 Insurgency in Sri Lankan Literature in English 131-146
Clement Hawes Leading History by the Nose: The Turn to the Eighteenth Century in Midnight's Children 147-168
Alpana Sharma Knippling R. K. Narayan, Raja Rao, and Modern English Discourse in Colonial India 169-186
Nivedita Bagchi The Process of Validation in Relation to Materiality and Historical Reconstruction in Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines 187-203

Reviews

Priyamvada Gopal Sitting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context, by Tejaswini Niranjana 204-206
Kanishka Chowdhury In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, by Aijaz Ahmed, and The Rhetoric of English India, by Sara Suleri 206-211
Swati Chanda Women Writing in India, edited by Susie Tharu and K. Lalitha 211-215
Asha Sen The Oppressive Present: Literature and Social Consciousness in India, by Sudhir Chandra, and The Lie of the Land: English Literary Studies in India, edited by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan 215-219
Joya Uraizee Family Quarrels: Toward a Criticism of Indian Writing in English, by Jeroza F. Jussawalla 219-222

 

Issue 2

Editor:  Patrick O'Donnell
General Issue

Author Title Pages
Moira Ferguson Lucy and the Mark of the Colonizer 237-260
Chris Bongie "Lost in the Maze of Doubling": J. M. Coetzee's Foe and the Politics of (Un)likeness 261-282
Albert Sbragia Italo Calvino's Ordering of Chaos 283-306
Ronald W. Cooley The Hothouse or the Street: Imperialism and Narrative in Pynchon's V. 307-326
Gerald Doherty The Dialectic of Space in D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers 327-344
Mark Morrisson Stephen Dedalus and the Ghost of the Mother 345-368
  Recent Books on Modern Fiction 369-446

 

Issue 3 & 4

Guest Editor:  Nancy J. Peterson
Special Issue: Toni Morrison (Double Issue)

Author Title Pages
Nancy J. Peterson Introduction: Canonizing Toni Morrison 461-479

Multicultural Morrison

Barbara T. Christian Layered Rhythms: Virginia Woolf and Toni Morrison 483-500
Richard C. Moreland "He Wants to Put His Story Next to Hers": Putting Twain's Story Next to Hers in Morrison's Beloved 501-526
Caroline M. Woidat Talking Back to Schoolteacher: Morrison's Confrontation with Hawthorne in Beloved 527-550

Nihilism and the Novel

Linda Krumholz Dead Teachers: Rituals of Manhood and Rituals of Reading in Song of Solomon 551-574
Deborah Guth A Blessing and Burden: The Relation to the Past in Sula, Song of Solomon, and Beloved 575-596
Judylyn S. Ryan Contested Visions/Double-Vision in Tar Baby 597-622
Doreatha Drummond Mbalia Women Who Run with Wild: The Need for Sisterhoods in Jazz 623-650
The Tower of Babel
Terry Otten Horrific Love in Toni Morrison's Fiction 651-668
Jennifer FitzGerald Selfhood and Community: Psychoanalysis and Discourse in Beloved 669-688
Rafael Perez-Torres Knitting and Knotting the Narrative Thread--Beloved as Postmodern Novel 689-708
James Phelan Toward a Rhetorical Reader-Response Criticism: The Difficult, the Stubborn, and the Ending of Beloved 709-732
The Vitality of Language
Eusebio L. Rodrigues Experiencing Jazz 733-754
Dwight A. McBride Speaking the Unspeakable: On Toni Morrison, African American Intellectuals and the Uses of Essentialist Rhetoric 755-780
Resources for Further Research
Malin LaVon Walther "And All of the Interests are Vested": Canon-Building in Recent Morrison Criticism 781-794
Debbie Mix Toni Morrison: A Selected Bibliography 795-818
P. Jane Splawn Recent Developments in Black Feminist Literary Scholarship: A Selective Annotated Bibliography 819-833

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