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Issue 28.1

Issue 28.1 (Winter 2001)
Special Issue: Oral Fixations

Essays
Allyson D. Polsky and Tina Takemoto ...................................................1
Introduction 

Alfonso Lingis .......................................................................................8
Flesh Trade

Valere Karno .......................................................................................29
Legal Hunger: Law, Narrative, and Orality in Leslie Marmon Silko’s
Storyteller and Almanac of the Dead

Jeffrey Falla ........................................................................................46
Disorderly Consumption and Capitalism: The Privilege of Sex Addiction 

Jennifer Maher ....................................................................................64
Ripping the Bodice: Eating, Reading, and Revolt


David Anthony Orgeron and Marsha Gabrielle Orgeron .......................................................................84
Eating Their Words: Consuming Class a la Chaplin and Keaton

Martine Hennard Dutheil .....................................................................................................................105
The Representation of the Cannibal in Ballantyne’s The Coral Island: Colonial Anxieties in Victorian Popular Fiction

Molly Castelloe ....................................................................................................................................123
Flaubert’s Indiscretion: A Fantasy Play 

William Vaughn ..................................................................................................................................127
Orality, Divinity, Sublimity: Jonathan Edwards and the Ethics of Interpretation 

Merrall Llewelyn Price ........................................................................................................................144
Bitter Milk: The Vasa Menstrualis and the Cannibal(ized) Virgin

Nicole Fermon .....................................................................................................................................155
Conversion and Oral Assimilation in Sarah Kofman

Review Essays
Kostas Myrsiades .................................................................................................................................171
Homer, 1715-1996 
[Review of Homer; Critical Assessments, ed Irene J. F. DeJong. Vol. 1: The Creation of the Poems; Vol. 2: The Homeric World; Vol. 3: Literary Interpretation; Vol. 4: Homer’s Art.]

Vincent A. Lankewish ..........................................................................................................................178
Millennium Approached: Reflections on the State of Queer Literary Studies at the Fin-de-Siècle
Reviews of Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity, by Robert J. Corber; The Queer Renaissance: Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities, by Robert McRuer; The Sodomite in Fiction and Satire, 1660-1750, by Cameron McFarlane; A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition, by Gregory Woods.] 

Matthew C. Stewart .............................................................................................................................190
The Measure of What You Bring: Three Recent Works on Hemingway
[Reviews of Beyond the Heroic “I”: Reading Lawrence, Hemingway
and “Masculinit,” by Stephen P. Clifford; Hemingway’s Fetishism: Psychoanalysis and the Mirror of Manhood, by Carl P. Eby; Hemingway and His Conspirators: Hollywood, Scribners, and the Making of American Celebrity Culture, by Leonard J. Leff.] 

John L. Hochheimer ...........................................................................................................................202
Reading the World Throught the Word: The Power of Literacy in a New Media Age
[Reviews of The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction,by Patrick Brantlinger; Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace, by James L. O’Donnell; Literacy Theory in the Age of the Internet, ed. Todd Taylor and Irene Ward.]

Gwen Raaberg ...................................................................................................................................210
Women and Power: The Politics of Myth and Poetic Identity
[Reviews of Judith, Sexual Warrior: Women and Power in Western Culture, by Margarita Stocker; Scheming Women: Poetry, Privilege, and the Politics of Subjectivity, by Cynthia Hogue.]

Jana A. Bouma and Dora Ramirez-Dhoore .........................................................................................219
Relocations and Border Crossings
[Reviews of Female Stories, Female Bodies: Narrative Identity and Representation, by Lidia Curti; Women, America, and Movement: Narratives of Relocation, ed. Susan L. Roberson; Secret Journeys: The Trope of Women’s Travel in American Literature, by Marilyn C. Wesley.]

Book Reviews
Cornel Bonca ......................................................................................................................................229
[Review of Closed Encounters: Literary Politics and Public Cultures, by Jeffrey Wallen.]

James Grove .......................................................................................................................................231
[Review of New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism Between the Wars, by William J. Maxwell.]

Appendix
Books Received ..................................................................................................................................235