Volume 58 - 2012
Issue 1
Editor: John N. Duvall
Associate Editor: Robert P. Marzec
General Issue
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Referring to the Human in Contemporary Human Rights Literature
Mitchum Huehls
Pages 1-21
The Politics of Sovereignty and Violence in Flora Annie Steel's A Prince of Dreamers
Alex Padamsee
Pages 22-45
Academic Discourse at Havana: Pan American Eugenics and Transnational Capital in Alejo Carpentier's ¡Écue-Yamba-Ó!
Stephen M. Park
Pages 46-78
The Aesthetic Alibi in The End of the Road
Christopher Conti
Pages 79-111
Genealogy and Geography in Patricia Grace's Tu
Erin Suzuki
Pages 112-27
Failed Messages, Maternal Loss, and Narrative Form in Toni Morrison's A Mercy
Jean Wyatt
Pages 128-52
Book Reviews
Pages 153-87
Contributors
Page 188
Call For Papers
Page 189
Forthcoming
Page 190
Editor: John N. Duvall
Associate Editor: Robert P. Marzec
General Issue
(Note: This entire volume is available online through Project Muse)
Margaret Church Award
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Dirty Books: Modernism and the Toilet
Ian Scott Todd
Pages 191-213
The Extraterritorial Poetics of W. G. Sebald
Matthew Hart and Tania Lown-Hecht
Pages 214-238
The Chinatown and the City: Kingston, Kerouac, and the Bohemian Bay Area
Jason Arthur
Pages 239-260
A Little Fiction is Good for You: Currency Crisis, The Nation State, and Waugh's African Texts
Alissa Karl
Pages 261-283
How to Love Your Local Homophobe: Southern Hospitality and the Unremarkable Queerness of Truman Capote's "The Thanksgiving Visitor"
Michael P. Bibler
Pages 284-307
"Gravity rushes through him": Volk and Fetish in Pynchon's Rilke
Doug Haynes
Pages 308-333
Aphrodite's Faces: Toni Morrison's Love and Ethics
Mariangela Palladino
Pages 334-352
Review Essay: Cognitive Theory and Literature
Theron Britt
Pages 353-362
Review Essay: Underneath, at the Edges, and in the Heart of the Urban Imagination
Kathy Knapp
Pages 363-374
Book Reviews
Pages 375-423
Contributors
Pages 424-425
Call For Papers
Page 426
Forthcoming
Page 427
Editor: Patrick O'Donnell
Special Issue: New British Fiction
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New British Fiction
Patrick O'Donnell
Pages 429-435
Reading the Multiple Drafts Novel
Stephen J. Burns
Pages 436-458
The Anxieties of Authenticity in Post-2000 British Fiction
Daniel Lea
Pages 459-476
Rethinking the Arcadian Revenge: Metachronous Times in the Fiction of Sam Taylor
Caroline Edwards
Pages 477-502
Brick Lane Blockades: The Bioculturism of Migrant Domesticity
Mrinalini Chakrovorty
Pages 503-528
The Pathology of Flexibility in Monica Ali's In The Kitchen
Sara Brouillette
Pages 529-548
The Critique of Trauma and the Afterlife of the Novel in Tom McCarthy's Remainder
Pieter Vermuelen
Pages 549-568
Dirty Media: Tom McCarthy and the Afterlife of Modernism
Justus Nieland
Pages 569-599
John Burnside's Ecologies of Solace: Regional Enviornmentalism and the Consolations of Description
David James
Pages 600-615
British Black Box: A Return to Race and Science in Zadie Smith'sWhite Teeth
Mindi McMann
Pages 616-636
"Everything You Ever Dreamed": Post-9/11 Trauma and Fantasy in Ali Smith's The Accidental
Emily Horton
Pages 637-654
Contributors
Pages 655-656
Calls for Papers
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Editor: R. Radhakrishnan
Special Issue: Modern Fiction and Politics
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Modern Fiction and Politics
R. Radhakrishnan
Pages 659-667
Coetzee's Posthumanist Ethics
Calina Ciobanu
Pages 668-698
Speaking with a Forked Tongue: Disgrace and the Irony of Reconciliation in Postapartheid South Africa
Sohinee Roy
Pages 699-722
Toni Morrison's A Mercy and the Counterwriting of Negative Communities: A Postnational Novel
Mina Karavanta
Pages 723-746
Event, Exceptionalism, and the Imperceptible: The Politics of Nadine Gordimer's The Pickup
Andrea Spain
Pages 747-772
Mutating Toward the Future: The Convergence of Utopianism, Postcolonial SF, and the Postcontemporary Longing for Form in Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome
Hugh O'Connell
Pages 773-795
A New Biological Citizenship: Posthumanism in Octavia Butler'sFledgling
Pramod Nayar
Pages 796-817
Edward Said, Mahmood Mamdani, V.S. Naipaul: Rethinking Postcolonial Studies
Sanjay Krishnan
Pages 818-836
Contributors
Pages 837-838
Forthcoming
Page 839