Contents
Issue 25.2 (Spring 1998)
General Issue
Essays
Jane Harred ..........................................................................................1
The Heart of Darkness in Joan Didion's Salvador
Timothy Scheie ...................................................................................17
Addicted to Race: Performativity, Agency, and Césaire's A Tempest
Stephen Gilbert Brown........................................................................30
De-Composing the Canon: Alter/Native Narratives from the Borderlands
De-Composing the Canon: Alter/Native Narratives from the Borderlands
Lorraine Piroux ...................................................................................45
"I'm Black an' I'm Proud": Re-Inventing Irishness in Roddy Doyle's The Commitments
Michael Nowlin....................................................................................58
"The World's Rarest Work": Modernism and Masculinity in Fitzgerald's
Tender is the Night
"The World's Rarest Work": Modernism and Masculinity in Fitzgerald's
Tender is the Night
Mark D. Hawthorne ...............................................................................................................................78
Pynchon's Early Labyrinths
Katrina Irving ........................................................................................................................................94
"Listen to Them Being Ghosts": Rosa's Words of Madness that Quentin Can't Hear
Betina Entzminger ...............................................................................................................................108
Utopian Yearnings, Dystopian Thoughts: Houellebecq’s The Elementary Particles and the
Problem of Scientific Communitarianism
Problem of Scientific Communitarianism
Angela M. Salas ..................................................................................................................................121
Ghostly Presences: Edith Wharton's Sanctuary and the Issue of Maternal Sacrifice
Note
Lynne Vallone .....................................................................................................................................137
Children's Literature Within and Without the Profession
Review Essays
Jay L. Halio .........................................................................................................................................147
Writing on Shakespeare
[Reviews of Shakespeare and Gender: A History, ed. Deborah E. Barker and Ivo Kamps; Performing Nostalgia: Shifting Shakespeare and the Contemporary Past, by Susan Bennett; "Scarce Truth Enough Alive": Shakespeare's Contemporary Search for Truth and Trust, by Max H. James; Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy: The Ritual Foundations of Genre, by Naomi Conn Liebler; Shakespeare from the Margins: Language, Culture, Context, by Patricia Parker]
Earl F. Briden ......................................................................................................................................154
Yours Truly, Mark Twain: The Signature in the Works
[Reviews of The Bible According to Mark Twain: Writings on Heaven, Eden, and the Flood, ed. Howard G. Baetzhold and Joseph B. McCullough; Persona and Humor in Mark Twain's Early Writings, by Don Florence; Acting Naturally: Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance, by Randall Knoper; Mark Twain on the Loose: A Comic Writer and the American Self, by Bruce Michelson.]
Garry Leonard .....................................................................................................................................165
The Barbaric Yawp: The Word as the World in American Literature
[Reviews of The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture, by Lawrence Buell; Parables of Possibility: The American Need for Beginnings, by Terence Martin; Sublime Thoughts/Penny Wisdom: Situating Emerson and Thoreau in the American Market, by Richard F. Teichgraber III]
Alice Drum ..........................................................................................................................................175
Revising Voice: Women Writers and the Challenge to Traditional Narrative Form
[Reviews of The Feminine Sublime: Gender and Excess in Women's Fiction, by Barbara Claire Freeman; Passions of the Voice: Hysteria, Narrative and the Figure of the Speaking Woman, by Claire Kahane; The Disobedient Writer: Women and Narrative Tradition, by Nancy A. Walker]
Judith Richards ...................................................................................................................................182
Toward Chicana Critical Theories: Seeking Equilibrium in the Analysis of Infinite Complexities
[Reviews of Daughters of Self-Creation. The Contemporary Chicana Novel, by Annie O. Eysturoy; Chicana Creativity and Criticism. New Frontiers in American Literature, ed. Maria Herrera-Sobek and Helena Maria Viramontes; Home girls. Chicana Literary Voices, by Alvina E. Quintana]
Pamela Lieske ....................................................................................................................................191
Feminism(s) Past and Present
[Reviews of Narrating Mothers: Theorizing Maternal Subjectivities, ed. Brenda O. Daly and Maureen T. Reddy; The Feminine Sublime: Gender and Excess in Women's Fiction, by Barbara Claire Freeman; To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction, by Joanna Russ]
Book Reviews
Amitava Kumar ...................................................................................................................................201
Review of Fugitive Cultures: Race, Violence, and Youth, by Henry A. Giroux
Camille R. LaBossire ...........................................................................................................................204
Review of The Translatability of Cultures: Figurations of the Space Between, ed. Sandord Budick and
Wolfgang Iser
Wolfgang Iser
Keith E. Welsh .....................................................................................................................................206
Review of The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage: A Reader's Companion to the Writers and
Their Works from Antiquity to the Present, ed. Claude Summers
Their Works from Antiquity to the Present, ed. Claude Summers
Jean E. Godsall-Myers .........................................................................................................................208
Review of Women Writers and Fascism, by Marie-Luise Gättens
Paulo de Medeiros ..............................................................................................................................210
Review of The Presence of Camões: Influences on the Literature of England, America, and
Southern Africa, by George Monteiro,
Southern Africa, by George Monteiro,
Appendix
Books Received
