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Volume 46 - 2000


[Issue 1  2  3  4]

Issue 1

Guest Editors: David Attwell and Barbara Harlow
Special Issue: South African Fiction after Apartheid

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

Author Title Pages
David Attwell and Barbara Harlow Introduction: South African Fiction after Apartheid 1-12
Mark Sanders Truth, Telling, Questioning: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull, and Literature after the Apartheid 13-41
Michiel Heyns The Whole Country's Truth: Confession and Narrative in Recent White South African Writing 42-66
Christopher Warnes The Making and Unmaking of History in Ivan Vladislavić's Propaganda by Monuments and Other Stories 67-89
Jennifer Wenzel The Pastoral Promise and the Political Imperative: The Plaasroman Tradition in an Era of Land Reform 90-113
Tim Trengove Jones Fiction and the Law: Recent Inscriptions of Gayness in South Africa 114-138
Stephen Clingman Surviving Murder: Oscillation and Triangulation in Nadine Gordimer's The House Gun 139-158
Michael Marais "Little enough, less than little: nothing": Ethics, Engagement, and Change in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee 159-182
Grant Farred Mourning the Postapartheid State Already? The Poetics of Loss in Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying 183-206
Rita Barnard The Smell of Apples, Moby-Dick, and Apartheid Ideology 207-226
Meg Samuelson Reading the Maternal Voice in Dindiwe Magona's To My Children's Children and Mother to Mother 227-245
Emily R. Zinn Rediscovery of the Magical: On Fairy Tales, Feminism, and the New South Africa 246-272
Christopher Warnes Interview with Ivan Vladislavić 273-281
David Attwell and Barbara Harlow, with Joan Attwell Interview with Sindiwe Magona 282-295
  Contributors 296-297

 

Issue 2

Editor:  William J. Palmer
Assistant Editor: John N. Duvall
General Issue

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

Author Title Pages
John N. Duvall Editor's Note 299
Donald C. Goellnicht Of Bones and Suicide: SKY Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe and Fae Myenne Ng's Bone 300-330
Stephen Ross The Abdication of Culture: The Ideology of Imagology in Milan Kundera's Immortality 331-354
Marya McFadden Queerness at Shrewsbury: Homoerotic Desire in Gaudy Night 355-378
Ambreen Hai Border Work, Border Trouble: Postcolonial Feminism in Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India 379-426
Hilde Staels Intertexts of Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace 427-450
Jim Murphy Revolutionary Pursuits: Engagements of History and Character in Steve Erickson's Arc d'X 451-479
Mitchell R. Lewis (Review Essay) Timely Materialisms: New Combinations of Poststructuralism and Cultural Critique 480-495
Kanishka Chowdhury (Review Essay) Postcolonial Longings 496-500
Michael du Plessis (Review Essay) Nostalgia for a Homogeneous Gay Masculinity 501-512
  Book Reviews 513-567
  Contributors 568-569

 

Issue 3

Guest Editor:  John Paul Riquelme
Special Issue: Gothic and Modernism

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

Author Title Pages
John Paul Riquelme Introduction: Toward a History of Gothic and Modernism: Dark Modernity from Bram Stoker to Samuel Beckett 585-608
John Paul Riquelme Oscar Wilde's Aesthetic Gothic: Walter Pater, Dark Enlightenment, and The Picture of Dorian Gray 609-631
Joseph Valente "Double Born": Bram Stoker and the Metrocolonial Gothic 632-645
Patrick R. O'Malley Oxford's Ghosts: Jude the Obscure and the End of Gothic 646-674
Susan Kollin Race, Labor, and the Gothic Western: Dispelling Frontier Myths in Dorothy Scarborough's The Wind 675-694
Charles J. Rzepka "I'm in the Business Too": Gothic Chivalry, Private Eyes, and Proxy Sex and Violence in Chandler's The Big Sleep 695-724
Ruth Helyer Parodied to Death: The Postmodern Gothic of American Psycho 725-748
Penny Fielding Reading Rooms: M. R. James and the Library of Modernity 749-771
Graham Fraser "No More than Ghosts Make": The Hauntology and Gothic Minimalism of Beckett's Late Work 772-788
Anne Williams (Review Essay) The Horror, The Horror: Recent Studies in Gothic Fiction 789-799
  Contributors 800-801

 

Issue 4

Editor:  William J. Palmer
Assistant Editor: John N. Duvall
General Issue

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

Author Title Pages
Laura Barrett Compositions of Reality: Photography, History, and Ragtime 801-824
Susan Levison Performance and the "Strange Place" of Jessie Redmon Fauset's There is Confusion 825-848
Carol E. Henderson The "Walking Wounded": Rethinking Black Women's Identity in Ann Petry's The Street 849-867
Dana Dragunoiu Hemingway's Debt to Stendhal's Armance in The Sun Also Rises 868-892
Tobey C. Herzog Tim O'Brien's "True Lies" (?) 893-916
Robert Seguin Ressentiment and the Social Poetics of The Great Gatsby: Fitzgerald Reads Cather 917-940
Jessica Berman (Review Essay) No Consensus on Ethics: New Work in Ethical Criticism 941-948
Janet Dean (Review Essay) Searching for the New Western Literary Criticism 949-958
Pericles Lewis (Review Essay) The Politics of Modernism 959-965
Jean Gallagher (Review Essay) Interdisciplinary Modernisms 966-970
Elizabeth M. Fox (Review Essay) Psychodynamics, Seeing, and Being in D. H. Lawrence 971-978
Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure (Review Essay) The Critical Reception of Ishmael Reed 979-983
Beryl Schlossman (Review Essay) Polyphony and Memory in James Joyce's Fiction 984-988
David McWhirter (Review Essay) Our Henry James? 989-997
Carol E. Henderson (Review Essay) Freedom to Self-Create: Identity and the Politics of Movement in Contemporary African American Fiction 998-1003
Frederick Luis Aldama (Review Essay) Re-Visioning African American Autobiography 1004-1007
Ethan Goffman (Review Essay) Tangled Roots: History, Theory, and African American Studies 1008-1016
Arturo Arias (Review Essay) Conjunctions, Disjunctions: Similar Goals, Contradictory Strategies 1017-1024
  Book Reviews 1025-1054
  Contributors 1055-1057

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