Contents
Issue 24.2 (June 1997)
General Issue
Essays
Mustapha Marrouchi .............................................................................1
Decolonizing the Terrain of Western Theoretical Productions
Kanishka Chowdhury ..........................................................................35
Afrocentric Voices: Constructing Identities, (Dis)placing Difference
Tamise Van Pelt...................................................................................57
Lacan in Context: An Introduction to Lacan for the English-Speaking Reader
Lacan in Context: An Introduction to Lacan for the English-Speaking Reader
Jerome DeNuccio ................................................................................71
History, Narrative, and Authority: Poe’s "Metzengerstein"
Laura Skandera-Trombley...................................................................82
Mark Twain’s Cross-Dressing Oeuvre
Mark Twain’s Cross-Dressing Oeuvre
Angela M. Salas ...................................................................................................................................97
Willa Cather’s Sapphira and the Slave Girl: Extending the Boundaries of the Body
Lawrence Howe ..................................................................................................................................109
The AIDS Quilt and Its Traditions
Charles Hannon ...................................................................................................................................126
Teaching the Conflicts as a Temporary Instructor
Lindsay Pentolfe Aegerter ...................................................................................................................142
A Pedagogy of Postcolonial Literature
Review Essays
Randall Knoper ...................................................................................................................................152
"American Studies and Studies of "America."
[Review of The Intellectual Construction of America: Exceptionalism and Identity from 1492 to 1800 by Jack P. Greene; Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form by Priscilla Wald; Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline, by David R. Shumway; Allegories of America: Narratives, Metaphysics, Politics by Fredrick M. Dolan.]
Lisa Jadwin .........................................................................................................................................164
"A Little Learning is a Dangerous Thing."
[Review of The Woman Reader 1837-1914, by Kate Flint; The Stone and the Scorpion: The Female Subject of Desire in the Novels of Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, by Judith Mitchell; Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford, by Linda Dowling.]
Stephen P. Clifford ..............................................................................................................................172
"The Tyranny of Biography: Hemingway’s Readers and the Fascination for Papa."
[Review of Hemingway’s Genders by Nancy R. Comley and Robert Scholes; Reading Hemingway: The Facts in the Fictions by Miriam B. Mandel; Critical Essays on Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms by George Monteiro.]
Mary Vasudeva ...................................................................................................................................183
"Re-creating Native American Literary History: The Past Looks Toward the Future."
[Reviews of The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism, by Brent Hayes Edwards; Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference, ed. Jake Kosek, Donald S. Moore, and Anand Pandian; Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture, by Hortense Spillers.]
Linda Brigham ....................................................................................................................................195
"Legacies of Omission and Unacknowledged Bequests: Recent Romantic Criticism."
[Review of Bearing the Dead: The British Culture of Mourning from the Enlightenment to Queen Victoria by Esther Schor; Re-Visioning Romanticism: British Women Writers, 1776-1837 ed. by Carol Shiner Wilson and Joel Haefner; Ecological Literary Criticism: Romantic Imagining and the Biology of Mind by Karl Kroeber.]
C.J. W.-L. Wee ....................................................................................................................................202
"Jewishness and Race, Gender, and Class in the English Novel."
[Review of Figures of Conversion: "The Jewish Question" and English National Identity, by Michael Ragussis; Class Fictions: Shame and Resistance in the British Working-Class Novel, 1890-1945 by Pamela Fox; Nobody’s Angels: Middle-Class Women and Domestic Ideology in Victorian Culture by Elizabeth Langland.]
Book Reviews
Nadel, Alan .........................................................................................................................................211
Review of Heroism and the Black Intellectual: Ralph Ellison, Politics, and Afro-American Intellectual Life by Jerry Gafio Watts.
John N. Duvall .....................................................................................................................................213
Review of Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age by Alan Nadel
Lydia A. Schultz ..................................................................................................................................215
Review of The Birth-mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History by Susan Howe.
Brenda Daly ........................................................................................................................................218
Review of Women Writing Childbirth: Modern Discourses of Motherhood by Tess Coslett.
Gayle Levy ..........................................................................................................................................221
Review of Writing Love: Letters, Women, and the Novel in France by Katharine Ann Jensen
Napolitano, Todd .................................................................................................................................221
Review of Defining Women: The Case of Cagney and Lacey by Julie D’Acci.
Terry Caesar .......................................................................................................................................225
Review of Insanity as Redemption in Contemporary American Fiction by Barbara Tepa Lupack.
Pedro Beade .......................................................................................................................................227
Review of Religious Imagination and Language in Emerson and Nietzsche by Irena S.M. Makarushka.
James E. Young ...................................................................................................................................229
Review of Writing After War: American War Fiction from Realism to Postmodernism by John Limon.
Appendices
Books Received
Errata
