Contents
Issue 23.3 (October 1996)
Special Focus Issue: (De)Colonizing Reading / (Dis)Covering the Other Form: The Life of the Mind
Contents
Editor's Note ..........................................................................................1
Essays
Thomas E. Recchio ...............................................................................2
A Monstrous Reading of Mary Barton: Fiction as "Communitas."
Juliana M. Spahr..................................................................................23
Postmodernism, Readers, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee
Postmodernism, Readers, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee
Rachel N. Baum ..................................................................................44
‘What I have learned to feel’: The Pedagogical Emotions of Holocaust Education.
Christopher Wise..................................................................................58
The Garden Trampled: or, The Liquidation of African Culture in V.S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River.
The Garden Trampled: or, The Liquidation of African Culture in V.S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River.
Ning Yu .................................................................................................................................................73
A Strategy Against Marginalization: The ‘High’ and ‘Low’ Cultures in Kingston’s China Men.
Biman Basu ..........................................................................................................................................88
The Black Voice and the Language of the Text: Toni Morrison’s Sula.
Notes
Amelia Simpson ..................................................................................................................................105
Black on Blonde: The Africanist Presence in Dorothy Parker’s ‘Big Blonde’.
Michele Mock ......................................................................................................................................117
Spitting Out the Seed: Ownership of Mother, Child, Breasts, Milk, and Voice in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.
FORUM: The Life of the Mind
Jeffrey Williams ..................................................................................................................................128
The Life of the Mind and the Academic Situation
James Phelan .....................................................................................................................................147
The Life of the Mind, Politics, and Critcal Argument: A Reply to Jeffrey Williams
Review Essays
Patrick Colm Hogan ............................................................................................................................163
Colonialism and the Problem of Identity in Irish Literature.
[Review of G.J. Watson, Irish Identity and the Literary Revival: Synge, Yeats, Joyce and O’Casey; Anthony Roche, Contemporary Irish Drama: From Beckett to McGuinness.]
Lisa Jadwin ........................................................................................................................................171
Critiquing the New Canon.
[Review of Timothy Morris, Becoming Canonical in American Poetry; Charlotte Templin, Feminism and the Politics of Literary Reputation; David Palumbo-Liu, ed., The Ethnic Canon: Histories, Institutions, and Interventions.]
Patrick Colm Hogan ...........................................................................................................................178
Ireland, Colonialism, and the Fancy of Difference: A Tale.
[Review of Terry Eagleton, Heathcliff and the Great Hunger: Studies in Irish Culture.]
Book Reviews
Paulo de Medeiros ..............................................................................................................................190
Review of Charles Bernheimer, ed. Comparative Literature in the Age of Multilcuturalism.
Glen A. Steinberg ................................................................................................................................193
Review of Linda Cable, Carnal Rhetoric: Milton’s Iconoclasm and the Poetics of Desire.
Nancy Lusignan Schultz ......................................................................................................................196
Review of Mason I. Lowance, Jr., Ellen E. Westbrook, and R. C. Prospo, eds. The Stowe Debate: Rhetorical Strategies in Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Cynthia Lowenthal ..............................................................................................................................199
Review of Terry Castle, The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny.
Maureen T. Reddy ...............................................................................................................................201
Review of Marty Roth, Foul and Fair Play: Feading Genre in Classic Detective Fiction.
Peter Okun ..........................................................................................................................................203
Review of Nancy Bentley, The Ethnography of Manners: Hawthorne, James, Wharton.
Celia Esplugas .....................................................................................................................................205
Review of Marta E. Savigliano, Tango and the Political Economy of Passion.
Appendices
Books Received
Volume 23 Index
Announcements
