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Volume 43 - 1997


[Issue 1  2  3  4]

Issue 1

Guest Editor: Donald E. Pease
Special Issue: National and Postnational Narratives

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

Author Title Pages
Donald E. Pease Introduction: National Narratives, Postnational Narration 1-26
Jonathan Crewe The Specter of Adamastor: Heroic Desire and Displacement in "White" South Africa 27-52
Jonathan Paul Eburne Trafficking in the Void: Burroughs, Kerouac, and the Consumption of Otherness 53-92
Liam Kennedy "It's the Third World Down There!" Urban Decline and (Post)National Mythologies in Bonfire of the Vanities 93-114
Gillian Brown Fables and the Forming of Americans 115-143
Carla Kaplan Undesirable Desire: Citizenship and Romance in Modern American Fiction 144-169
Robert L. Caserio Queer Passions, Queer Citizenship: Some Novels about the State of the American Nation 1946-1954 170-208
Mark A. R. Kemp The Marble Faun and American Postcolonial Ambivalence 209-236
Amy Kaplan Imperial Triangles: Mark Twain's Foreign Affairs 237-248
Ramchandran Sethuraman Evidence-cum-witness: Subaltern History, Violence, and the (De)Formation of Nation in Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven 249-287

 

Issue 2

Editor:  Patrick O'Donnell
Assistant Editor: Nancy J. Peterson
General Issue

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

Author Title Pages
Patrick O'Donnell From the Editor 291-293
Beverly Haviland Passing from Paranoia to Plagiarism: The Abject Authorship of Nella Larsen 295-318
Rishona Zimring Conrad's Pornography Shop 319-348
Christopher Gair The Crumbling Structure of "Appearances": Representation and Authenticity in The House of Mirth and The Custom of the Country 349-373
Andrew P. Hoberek The "Work" of Science Fiction: Philip K. Dick and Occupational Masculinity in the Post-World War II United States 374-404
Paul Jay Translation, Invention, Resistance: Rewriting the Conquest in Carlos Fuentes's "The Two Shores" 405-431
Chip Rhodes Review Essay: Removing the Veil: Race, Modernism, and Cultural Pluralism in Four Recent Studies of Twenties U.S. Culture 432-449
  Book Reviews 450-570

 

Issue 3

Guest Editor:  N. Katherine Hayles
Special Issue: Technocriticsm and Hypernarrative

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

Author Title Pages
N. Katherine Hayles Introduction: Situating Narrative in an Ecology of New Media 573-578
Michael Joyce Nonce Upon Some Times: Rereading Hypertext Fiction 579-597
Jaishree K. Odin The Edge of Difference: Negotiations between the Hypertextual and the Postcolonial 598-630
Sue-Ellen Case Eve's Apple, or Women's Narrative Bytes 631-650
Stuart Moulthrop Pushing Back: Living and Writing in Broken Space 651-676
Marie-Laure Ryan Interactive Drama: Narrativity in a Highly Interactive Environment 677-707
Thomas Foster "Trapped by the Body?" Telepresence Technologies and Transgendered Performance in Feminist and Lesbian Rewritings of Cyberpunk Fiction 708-744
Joseph Tabbi Solitary Inventions: David Markson at the End of the Line 745-772
Robert Markley Falling into Theory: Simulation, Terraformation, and Eco-Economics in Kim Stanley Robinson's Martian Trilogy 773-799
N. Katherine Hayles Corporeal Anxiety in Dictionary of the Khazars: What Books Talk about in the Late Age of Print When They Talk about Losing Their Bodies 800-820

 

Issue 4

Editor:  William J. Palmer
Assistant Editor: Nancy J. Peterson
General Issue

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

Author Title Pages
William J. Palmer Editor's Note 823-825
Marc DaRosa Henry James, Anonymity, and the Press: Journalistic Modernity and the Decline of the Author 826-859
Ricahrd A. Kaye Edith Wharton and the "New Gomorrahs" of Paris: Homosexuality, Flirtation, and Incestuous Desire in The Reef 860-897
Robert Dale Parker Who Shot the Sheriff: Storytelling, Indian Identity, and the Marketplace of Masculinity in D'Arcy McNickle's The Surrounded 898-932
Eleanor F. Shevlin Cartographic Refrains and Postcolonial Terrains: Mariama Bâ's Scarlet Song 933-962
Joseph Alkana "Do we know the meaning of aesthetic gratification?" Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl, the Akedah, and the Ethics of Holocaust Literary Aesthetics 963-990
  Book Reviews 991-1082

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