Contents
Issue 26.2 (Spring 1999)
General Issue
Essays
Jeanette Roberts Shumaker .................................................................1
Abjection and Degeneration in Thomas Hardy’s "Barbara of the House of Grebe"
Matthew Wilson ..................................................................................18
Charles W. Chesnutt, Whiteness, and the Public Sphere
Phyllis Frus and Stanley Corkin...........................................................36
Willa Cather’s "Pioneer" Novels and (Not New, Not Old) Historical Reading
Willa Cather’s "Pioneer" Novels and (Not New, Not Old) Historical Reading
Deborah Cohn .....................................................................................59
"The Paralysis of the Instant": The Stagnation of History and the Stylistic Suspension of Time in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s La hojarasca
Carine Melkom Mardorossian..............................................................79
Double (De)colonization and the Feminist Criticism of Wide Sargasso Sea (Translators In and Of the War)
Double (De)colonization and the Feminist Criticism of Wide Sargasso Sea (Translators In and Of the War)
Nigel Gibson .........................................................................................................................................96
Thoughts about Doing Fanonism in the 1990s
E. San Juan, Jr. ...................................................................................................................................118
Raymond Williams and the Idea of Cultural Revolution
Carl Silvio ...........................................................................................................................................137
Black Elk Speaks and Literary Disciplinarity: A Case Study in Canonization
Scott Pollard .......................................................................................................................................151
Lyrical Culture: Rethinking Western Literature after Reading The Book of Songs
Notes
E. Lale Demirturk ................................................................................................................................166
Teaching African-American Literature in Turkey: The Politics of Pedagogy
Review Essays
Linda Myrsiades ..................................................................................................................................177
Teaching Texts for Literature and Medicine
[Reviews of Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing, by Thomas G. Couser; Between Doctors and patients: The Changing Balance of Power, by Lilian R. Rurst; Picturing Health and Illness: Images of Identity and Difference, by Sandra L. Gilman; Fragments of Death, Fables of Identity, Illness in Victorian Culture, by Athena Vrettos; To Live in the Center of the Moment: Literary Autobiographies of Aging, by Barbara Frey Waxman.]
Marcel Cornis-Pope .............................................................................................................................186
The Ethics of Reading in the Age of Multiculturalism
[Reviews of Reading Cultures: the Construction of Readers in the Twentieth Century, by Molly Abel Travis;
Ethics After Idealism: Theory-Culture-Ethnicity-Reading, by Rey Chow.]
Ethics After Idealism: Theory-Culture-Ethnicity-Reading, by Rey Chow.]
Joyce Green MacDonald .....................................................................................................................193
Race Matters in American Culture
[Reviews of Race: The History of an Idea in America, by Thomas F. Gossett; Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America, by Saidiya V. Hartman; Whiteness: A Critical Reader, ed. Mike Hill.]
W. Douglas Payne ...............................................................................................................................200
Resisting Normalization: Queer Theory in an Interval
[Reviews of Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings, ed. Eileen Barrett and Patricia Cramer; Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction, ed. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; Feminism Meets Queer Theory, ed. Elizabeth Weed and Naomi Schor.]
Book Reviews
Terence Diggory ..................................................................................................................................211
Review of The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets, by David Lehman
Peter Scmidt .......................................................................................................................................214
Review of Race-ing Representation: Voice, History and Sexuality, ed. Kostas Myrsiades and Linda Myrsiades
Jose Gonzalez .....................................................................................................................................217
Review of Migrant Song: Politics and Process in Contemporary Chicano Literature, by Teresa McKenna
Appendices
Books Received ..................................................................................................................................220
Announcements ..................................................................................................................................226
