Alexie, Sherman (Vol. 154) - Copyright Page

Alexie, Sherman (Vol. 154) - Copyright Page

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Volume 154

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The editors wish to thank the copyright holders of the excerpted criticism included in this volume and the permissions managers of many book and magazine publishing companies for assisting us in securing reproduction rights. We are also grateful to the staffs of the Detroit Public Library, the Library of Congress, the University of Detroit Mercy Library, Wayne State University Purdy/Kresge Library Complex, and the University of Michigan Libraries for making their resources available to us. Following is a list of the copyright holders who have granted us permission to reproduce material in this volume of CLC. Every effort has been made to trace copyright, but if omissions have been made, please let us know.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN CLC, VOLUME 154, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

America, v. 175, December 28, 1996. © 1996. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission of America Press, Inc.,106 West 56th Street, New York, NY 10019. www.americamagazine.org.—American Indian Culture and Research Journal, v. 21, Spring, 1997. Copyright © 1997 The Regents of the University of California. Reproduced by permission.—American Indian Quarterly, Winter, 1996; v. 21, Spring, 1997. Copyright © The University of Nebraska Press 1996, 1997. Reproduced by permission.—American Literature, v. 68, March, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Chicago Tribune Books, November 17, 1996 for “Native Son: Sherman Alexie Explores the Confusion and Anger Born of Oppression,” by Madison Smartt Bell. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The Christian Century, v. 113, February 28, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Christian Science Monitor, January, 1997 for “One Author’s Effort at Myth Killing” by Judith Bolton-Fasman. Reproduced by permission of the author./March 6, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Cineaste, v. 23, Fall, 1998;

v. 17, 1990. Reproduced by permission.—Columbia Journalism Review, v. 35, September-October, 1996 for “Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Klein” by Christopher Hanson. © 1996 Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University. Reprinted by permission of the publisher and the author./v. 36, July-August, 1997 for “Can a Journalist’s Novel Be Libelous?” by Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy. © 1997 by Columbia Journalism Review. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors.—Contemporary Review, v. 268, April, 1996. Reproduced by permission of Contemporary Review Co. Ltd.—Critique, v. 47, Winter, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—The Explicator, v. 48, Spring, 1990; v. 50, Fall, 1991. Reproduced by permission.—Film Comment, v. 37, January-February, 2001 for “Hired Gun” by Steven Soderbergh and Gavin Smith. Reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—Four Quarters, v. 4, Spring, 1990. Reproduced by permission of La Salle University.—German Quarterly, Winter, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—The Germanic Review, v. 67, Summer, 1992 for a review of “Die funfte Grundrechenart: Aufsatze und Reden” by Keith Bullivant. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The Hudson Review, v. 42, Spring, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by The Hudson Review, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of European Studies for “The Vanquished Self: Christoph Hein’s Drachenblut and Der Tangospieler” by William J. Niven. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Journal of Popular Culture, v. 25, Spring, 1992. Reproduced by permission.—Kenyon Review, v. 11, Summer, 1989 for “The World of Bobbie Ann Mason” for Devon Jersild. Copyright © 1989 by Kenyon College. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author; v. 15, Summer, 1993 for “Betrayals and Boundaries: A Question of Balance” by Leslie Ullman. Reproduced by permission of the author.—London Review of Books, v. 18, March 7, 1996 for “The Word on the Street” by Elaine Showalter./v. 28, March 5, 1998 for “Hopeless Warriors” by Michael Gorra. Appears here by permission of the London Review of Books and the respective authors.—Los Angeles Times, December 4, 1991; August 20, 1993; October 24, 1993; December 17, 1996; December 27, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Los Angeles Times Book Review, April 2, 1989; January 12, 1992; June 18, 1995; January 28, 1996; June 18, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—The Midwest Quarterly, v. 8, Winter, 1987. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Language Review, v.90, July, 1995. © Modern Humanities Research Association 1995. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Modern Language Studies, v. 22, Spring, 1992 for “New Roles, New History, and New Patriotism: Bobbie Ann Mason’s In Country” by June Dwyer. Copyright, Northeast Modern Language Association 1992. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and author.—National Review, November 10, 1989; May 29, 1995. Copyright © 1989, 1995 by National Review, Inc, 215 Lexington Avenue. New York, NY 10016. Reproduced by permission.—New Criterion, v. 15, September, 1996 for “Joe Klein’s Tangled Web” by James Bowman. Reproduced by permission of the author.—New German Critique, Winter, 1993; v. 66, Fall, 1995. Reproduced by permission.—New Republic, September 4, 1989; v. 214, January 29, 1996; v. 215, August 12, 1996; January 22, 2001. Reproduced by permission.— New Statesman and Society, v. 9, March 1, 1996; v. 130, January 29, 2001. Reproduced by permission.—New York Review of Books, v. xliii, February 29, 1996. Reproduced by permission; v. 47, July 20, 2000. Copyright © 2000 Nyrev, Inc. Reproduced with permission from The New York Review of Books.—A Prairie Schooner, v. 70, Spring, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Publishers Weekly, September 16, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Quadrant, v. 40, June, 1996

for “The Romance of Politics” by Anne Waldron Neumann. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Sight and Sound, v. 4, January, 1994; v. 6, March, 1996; v. 8, October, 1998; v. 8, December, 1998; v. 11, November, 1999; v. 10, January, 2000; v. 10, May, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—The Southern Literary Journal, v. 26, Spring, 1994; v. 28, Spring, 1996; v. 32, Fall, 1999. Copyright 1994, 1996, 1999 by the Department of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Reproduced by permission.—Southern Quarterly, v. 30, Winter-Spring, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by the University of Southern Mississippi. Reproduced by permission.—Spectator, February 10, 1996; v. 283, December 11, 1999. © 1996, 1999 by The Spectator. Reproduced by permission of The Spectator.—Studies in Native American Literature, v. 9, Winter, 1997. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in Short Fiction, v. 32, Spring, 1995. Reproduced by permission.—Washington Post, January 14, 1992 for “Under Big Brother’s Eye” by Jeffrey A. Frank. Reproduced by permission of the author.— Washington Post Book World, v. 19, June 25, 1989 for “Love at Arm’s Length” by Ann Vliet./September 5, 1993 for “Good Country People” by Pickney Benedict./v. xxvi, January 28, 1996 for “A Novel Spin on Campaign ‘92” by Martin Walker./July 9, 2000 for “Full Blooded” by Jonathan Penner. Reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—The Women’s Review of Books, v. 11, March, 1994 for “Signs and Portents” by Michele Clark. Reproduced by permission of the author; v. 16, July, 1999 for “Old Roots, New Roots” by Kathryn McKee. Reproduced by permission of the author.— World Literature Today, v. 59, Autumn, 1985; v. 61, Summer, 1987; v. 64, Spring, 1990; v. 64, Autumn, 1990; v. 65, Spring, 1991; v. 68, Summer, 1994; v. 70, Spring, 1996; v. 71, Spring, 1997. Reproduced by permission.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN CLC, VOLUME 154, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Clarke, David. From “‘Himmel auf Erden’? Christoph Hein, Capitalism, and the ‘Wende,’” in Christoph Hein in Perspective. Rodopi, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Rodopi. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Evans, Owen. From “Hope for the Future? Gunter de Bruyn’s Neue Herrlichkeit and Christoph Hein’s Der Tanglospieler,”in Christoph Hein in Perspective. Rodopi, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Rodopi. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Jackman, Graham. From “Von Allem Anfang An; ‘A Portrait of a Young Man’?” in Christoph Hein in Perspective. Rodopi, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Rodopi. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Kinney, Katherine. From “Humping the Boonies: Sex, Combat, and the Female in Bobbie Ann Mason’s ‘In Country,’” in Fourteen Landing Zones: Approaches to Vietnam War Literature. University of Iowa Press, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by University of Iowa Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Levy, Andrew. From “Back Home Again: Bobbie Ann Mason’s ‘Shiloh,’” in The Culture and Commerce of the American Short Story. Cambridge University Press, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Mason, Bobbie Ann with Albert E. Wilhelm. From “An Interview with Bobbie Ann Mason,” in Bobbie Ann Mason: A Study of the Short Fiction. Twayne Publishers, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Twayne Publishers. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.— McKnight, Phillip. From “Homesickness for the Cell: Der Tanglospieler,”in Understanding Christoph Hein. University of South Carolina Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by University of South Carolina Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—McKnight, Phillip. From “The Absence of Malice: Das Napoleon-Spiel,”in Understanding Christoph Hein. University of South Carolina Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by University of South Carolina Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—McKnight, Phillip. From “The Vulnerability of Silence: The Distant Lover,”in Understanding Christoph Hein. University of South Carolina Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by University of South Carolina Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Price, Joanna. From “Shiloh and Other Stories,” in Understanding Bobbie Ann Mason. University of South Carolina Press, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by University of South Carolina Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Robinson, David. From “Hein’s Historians: Fictions of Social Memory,” in Deconstructing East Germany: Christoph Hein’s Literature of Dissent. Camden House, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Camden House. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission by permission of the author.—Robinson David W. From “Chronicling the Cold War’s Losers and Winners,” in Deconstructing East Germany Christoph Hein’s Literature Of Dissent. Camden House, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Camden House. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Stewart, Matthew C. From “Realism, Verisimilitude, and the Depiction of Vietnam Veterans in In Country,”in Fourteen Landing Zones: Approaches to Vietnam War Literature. University of Iowa Press, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by University of Iowa Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Wilhelm, Albert E. From “Bobbie Ann Mason: Searching for Home,” in Southern Writers at Century’s End. The University Press of Kentucky, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by The University Press of Kentucky. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

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Alexie, Sherman, photograph. © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.—Mason, Bobbie Ann, photograph. © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.—Soderbergh, Steven, photograph. AP/World Wide Photos. Reproduced by permission.

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