Contents
Issue 30.1 (Winter 2003)
Special Issue: Algeriad
Articles
Kostas Myrsiades and Geetha Ramanathan .........................................vii
Editors' Preface
Mustapha Marrouchi .............................................................................1
Guest Editor Note
Ben Blakey............................................................................................4
Memory
Memory
Mustapha Marrouchi .............................................................................6
Introduction: Colonialism, Islamism, Terrorism
Eliza McDonald and Jo Thomas...........................................................56
Rachida: Letters from Algeria
Rachida: Letters from Algeria
Hélène Cixous .......................................................................................................................................82
Letter to Zohra Drif
Mustapha Marrouchi .............................................................................................................................91
Of Algeria: Childhood and Fear
Jacques Derrida ..................................................................................................................................226
Taking a Stand for Algeria
Salwa Ali Benzahra ............................................................................................................................124
Dis/Abling the Narrative: The Case of Tombéza
Lynn Penrod .......................................................................................................................................135
Algeriance, Exile, and Hélène Cixous
James Miller .......................................................................................................................................146
For a Chance at Warmth
Hassen Bouabdellah ...........................................................................................................................148
Culture, Art, and Violence
Abdelkader Djemai .............................................................................................................................153
No Way Out
Izmer Bin Ahmad ................................................................................................................................157
A Note on the Cover Art: Fathering "Garden"
Review Essays
Randall Knoper ...................................................................................................................................161
Walt Whitman and New Biographical Criticism
[Reviews of The Erotic Whitman , by Vivan R. Pollak; Whitman and the Irish , by Joann P. Krieg.]
Linda Myrsiades ..................................................................................................................................169
Mining the Law/Literature Enterprise
[Reviews of Literary Criticisms of the Law , by Gyora Binder and Robert Weisberg; Minding the Law , by Anthony G. Amsterdam and Jerome Bruner; The Genesis of Justice: Ten Stories of Biblical Injustice that Led to the Ten Commandments and Modern Law , by Alan M. Dershowitz; Testimony and Advocacy: In Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology , by Jan-Melissa Schramm.]
Book Reviews
Terry Rowden ......................................................................................................................................182
[Review of Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature , by Trudier Harris.]
Alice Hall Petry ...................................................................................................................................184
[Review of Reconstituting Authority: American Fiction in the Province of the Law , by William E. Moddelmog.]
Cynthia Ellen Patton ............................................................................................................................188
[Review of Manifesto: A Century of Isms , by Mary Ann Caws.]
Nora Barry ...........................................................................................................................................190
[Review of The Demon of the Continent: Indians and the Shaping of American Literature , by Joshua David Bellin.]
Jennifer Putzi ......................................................................................................................................193
[Review of Palace-Burner: The Selected Poetry of Sarah Piatt , by Paula Bernat Bennet.]
