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African American Review, v. 27, Summer 1990 for “The Bluest Eye: Notes on History, Community, and Black Female Subjectivity,” by Jane Kuenz; v. 32, Summer 1998 for “The Fourth Face: The Image of God in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye,” by Allen Alexander. Copyright © 1990, 1998 by the authors. Both reproduced by permission of the publisher and the authors.—America, v. 130, January 19, 1974. © 1974. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission of America Press, Inc., 106 West 56th Street, New York, NY, 10019.—Antioch Review, v. 52, Spring 1994. Copyright © 1994 by the Antioch Review Inc. Reproduced by permission of the Editors.—Asian Affairs, v. 15, February 1984. Copyright © by American-Asian Educational Exchange, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.—Belles Lettres, v. 9, Fall 1993. Reproduced by permission.—British Journal of Sociology, v. 52, June 2001. Reproduced by permission.—Callaloo, v. 13, Summer 1990. © The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Chicago Tribune Books, May 2, 1993. © 1993 Tribune Media Services, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Christian Century, v. 91, January 16, 1974;

v. 96, April 11, 1979. Both reproduced by permission.—Christian Science Monitor, v. 81, February 10, 1989. © 1989 The Christian Science Publishing Society. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission from The Christian Science Monitor.— CLA Journal, v. 25, June 1982. Copyright, 1982 by The College Language Association. Used by permission of The College Language Association.—Commonweal, v. 99, February 1, 1974; v. 18, December 2, 1988. Copyright © 1974, 1988 Commonweal Publishing Co., Inc. Both reproduced by permission of Commonweal Foundation.—Communication Monographs, v. 60, June 1993 for “Women as Communicators: Mary Daly’s Hagography as Rhetoric,” by Cindy L. Grifﬁn. Reproduced by permission of the Speech Communication Association and the author.—Contemporary Sociology, v. 5, July 1976 for “Review of Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women’s Liberation,” by Marie Augusta Neal. Copyright © 1976 American Sociological Association. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.— Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, v. 41, Spring 2000. Copyright © 2000 Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. Reproduced with permission of the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, published by Heldref Publications, 1319 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20036-1802.—Cross Currents, v. 49, Winter 1999-2000; v. 50, Fall 2000. Copyright 1999-2000 by Cross Currents Inc. Both reproduced by permission.—Dalhousie Review, v. 79, Autumn 1999 for “Review of Women’s Lives: The View from the Threshold,” by Sarah Emsley. Reproduced by permission of the author.— East European Politics and Societies, v. 15, Fall, 2001. Reproduced by permission.—English Language Notes, v. 30, September 1992. © copyrighted 1992, Regents of the University of Colorado. Reproduced by permission.—The Explicator, v. 51, Summer 1993; v. 53, Fall 1994. Copyright © 1993, 1994 Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. Both reproduced with permission of the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, published by Heldref Publications, 1319 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20036-1802.—Hypatia, v. 7, Spring 1992. Reproduced by permission.—Indian Journal of American Studies, v. 23, Fall 1993. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of Asian Studies, v. 44, November 1984. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of Popular Culture, v. 26, Summer 1992. Copyright © 1992 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, v. 22, Spring 1989 for “Toni Morrison’s ‘Allegory of the Cave’: Movies, Consumption, and Platonic Realism in The Bluest Eye,” by Thomas H. Fick. Copyright 1989 by The Midwest Modern Language Association. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—London Review of Books, v. 14, April 23, 1992 for “Self-Disclosing Days,” by Jenny Turner; v. 14, July 9, 1992 for “Here Is a Little Family,” by Amit Chaudhuri; v. 20, June 4, 1998 for “Acts of Violence in Grosvenor Square,” by Christopher Hitchens; November 30, 2000 for “I Prefer to Be an Ottoman,” by Justin Huggler. All appears here by permission of the London Review of Books and the author.—Los Angeles Times Book Review, May 20, 1984; May 19, 1985; October 8, 1995; February 16, 1997. Copyright, 1984, 1985, 1995, 1997, Los Angeles Times. Reproduced by permission.—MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of The Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, v. 21, Winter 1987. Copyright, MELUS: The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 1987. Reproduced by permission.—Michigan Quarterly Review, v. 29, Winter 1990 for “The Shape of Women’s Lives,” by Linda Simon. 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v. 192, May 27, 1985. © 1973, 1985 The New Republic, Inc. Both reproduced by permission of The New Republic.—New Statesman, v. 106, July 22, 1983; v. 108, October 5, 1984; v. 109, March 1, 1985; v. 114, November 6, 1987; v. 126, April 11, 1997; v. 27, November 13, 1998; v. 128, January 8, 1999; v. 129, April 24, 2000; v. 13, September 11, 2000; v. 131, May 13, 2002. © 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002 Statesman & Nation Publishing Company Limited. All reproduced by permission.—New Statesman and Society, v. 3, October 12, 1990; v. 5, January 24, 1992; v. 5, May 22, 1992; v. 6, January 29, 1993. © 1990, 1992, 1993 Statesman & Nation Publishing Company Limited. All reproduced by permission.—New York Review of Books, v. 90, May 1993. Copyright © 1993 Nyrev, Inc. Reproduced with permission from The New York Review of Books.—Off Our Backs, v. 23, January 1993; v. 28, December 1998. Both reproduced by permission.—Partisan Review, v. 61, Winter 1994 for “Bosnia: Guilt By Dissociation? A Discussion with Slavenka Drakulic,” by William Phillips and others. Copyright © 1994 by Partisan Review. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and author.—Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, v. 35, April-June 1999. Reproduced by permission.— Problems of Communication, v. 40, January-April 1991. Reproduced by permission.—The Progressive, v. 66, January 2002. Copyright © 2002 by The Progressive, Inc. Reproduced by permission of The Progressive, 409 East Main Street, Madison, WI, 53703, www.progressive.org.—Publisher’s Weekly, v. 242, September 11, 1995; v. 247, November 6, 2000. Copyright 1995, 2000 by Reed Publishing USA. Both reproduced from Publishers Weekly, published by the Bowker Magazine Group of Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Publishing USA., by permission.—Slavic and East European Journal, v. 42, Summer 1998; v. 42, Fall 1998. © 1998 by AATSEEL of the U.S., Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Slavic Review, v. 53, Fall 1994. Copyright © 1994 by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Southern Humanities Review, v. 18, Spring 1984; v. 29, Fall 1992. Copyright 1984, 1992 by Auburn University. Both reproduced by permission.—Spectator, v. 277, October 19, 1996. © 1996 by The Spectator. Reproduced by permission of The Spectator.—Studies in the Novel, v. 32, Summer 2000. Copyright 2000 by North Texas State University. Reproduced by permission.—Times Literary Supplement, no. 4491, April 28, 1989; no. 4566, October 5, 1990; no. 4571, November 9, 1990; no. 4635, January 31, 1992; no. 4648, May 1, 1992; no. 4713, July 30, 1993; no. 4861, May 31, 1996; no. 4970, July 3, 1998; no. 4992, December 4, 1998; no. 5083, September 1, 2000; no. 5175, June 7, 2002. © The Times Supplements Limited 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002. All reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission.—Washington Post Book World, August 10, 1997. © 1997, Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group. Both reproduced by permission.—The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, v. 21, November 2002. Reproduced by permission—Women’s Review of Books, v. 1, August 1984 for “Famous Lust Words,” by Marilyn Frye; v. 4, December 1986 for “She Done It,” by Maureen T. Reddy; v. 5, December 1987 for “Erratic, Ecstatic, Eccentric,” by Julia Penelope; v. 6, February 1989 for “Questioning the Quest,” by Emily Toth;

v. 10, March 1993 for “Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary,” by Carol J. Adams; v. 12, July 1995 for “Postmurderism,” by Lillian

S. Robinson; v. 13, December 1995 for “Career Feminist,” by Wini Breines; v. 15, January 1998 for “Free at Last,” by Annette Zilversmit; v. 17, March 2000 for “No Place Like Home,” by Valerie Jablow. Copyright © 1986, 1987, 1989, 1993, 1995, 1998, 2000. All reproduced by permission of the authors.—Women’s Studies International Forum, v. 22, September-October 1999. Copyright © 1999 Pergamon Press Ltd. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—World Literature Today, v. 66, Winter 1992; v. 73, Winter 1999; v. 74, Summer 2000; v. 74, Winter 2000; v. 75, Winter 2001. Copyright 1992, 1999, 2000, 2001 by the University of Oklahoma Press. All reproduced by permission of the publisher.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN CLC, VOLUME 173, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Awkward, Michael. “Roadblocks and Relatives: Critical Revision in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.” From Critical Essays on Toni Morrison. Edited by Nellie Y. McKay. G. K. Hall & Co., 1988. Copyright © 1988 by Nellie Y. McKay. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Dickerson, Vanessa. “The Naked Father in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.”

From Reﬁguring the Father: New Feminist Reading of Patriarchy. Edited by Patricia Yaeger and Beth Kowaleski-Wallace. Southern Illinois University Press, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Gray, Frances. “Elemental Philosophy: Language and Ontology in Mary Daly’s Texts.” From Feminist Interpretations of Mary Daly. Edited by Sarah Lucia Hoagland and Marilyn Frye. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Pennsylvania State University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Korte, Anne-Marie. “Deliver Us from Evil: Bad versus Better Faith in Mary Daly’s Feminist Writings” and “Just/ice In Time: On Temporality in Mary Daly’s Quintessence.” From Feminist Interpretations of Mary Daly. Edited by Sarah Lucia Hoagland and Marilyn Frye. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Pennsylvania State University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Ledbetter, Mark. “Through the Eyes of a Child: Looking for Victims in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.” From Literature and Theology at Century’s End. Edited by Gregory Salyer and Robert Detweiler. Scholars Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by The American Academy of Religion. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Harris, Trudier. “Reconnecting Fragments: Afro-American Folk Tradition in The Bluest Eye.” From Critical Essays on Toni Morrison. Edited by Nellie Y. McKay. G. K. Hall & Co., 1988. Copyright © 1988 by Nellie Y. McKay. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.— Mbalia, Doreatha Drummond. “The Bluest Eye: The Need for Racial Approbation.” From Toni Morrison’s Developing Class Consciousness. Susquehanna University Press, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by Associated University Presses. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Miner, Madonne M. “Lady No Longer Sings the Blues: Rape, Madness, and Silence in The Bluest Eye.” From Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction, and Literary Tradition. Indiana University Press, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by Indiana University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Ratcliffe, Krista. “De/ Mystifying Herself and Her Wor(l)ds: Mary Daly.” From Anglo-American Feminist Challenges to the Rhetorical Traditions: Virginia Woolfe, Mary Daly, Adrienne Rich. Edited by John K. Wilson. Southern Illinois University Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS APPEARING IN CLC, VOLUME 173, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

Ali, Tariq, photograph by Bernd Kammerer. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Daly, Mary, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1999, photograph by Christopher Pfuhl. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Drakulic, Slavenka, photograph by Filip Horvat. Corbis Saba. Reproduced by permission.—Heilbrun, Carolyn, photograph by Katy Raddatz. Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—Morrison, Toni, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.

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