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Volume 167

Contemporary Literary Criticism

Criticism of the Works of Today’s Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, Scriptwriters, and Other Creative Writers

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Acknowledgments

The editors wish to thank the copyright holders of the 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 167, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

African American Review, v. 26, Spring 1992 for “Towards a Map of Mis(sed) Reading: The Presence of Absence in The Color Purple,” by James C. Hall, v. 29, Spring 1995 for “Race and Domesticity in The Color Purple,” by Linda Selzer. Reproduced by permission of the authors.—ANQ, v. 13, Winter 2000. Reproduced by permission.—ARIEL, v. 21, April 1990 for “‘What She Got to Sing About?’: Comedy and The Color Purple,” by Priscilla L. Walton. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Boston Globe, March 7, 2001; August 19, 2001. Reproduced by permission.— Chicago Tribune Books, July 23, 1989; February 4, 1990; October 1, 1995. Reproduced by permission.—Christian Science Monitor, v. LXXXI, September 1, 1989. Reproduced by permission.—Chronicle of Higher Education, v. 47, December 8, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Comparative Literature Studies, v. 29, Fall 1992. Reproduced by permission.—Contemporary Literature, v. 25, Winter 1984; v. 32, Spring 1991. Reproduced by permission. —Critique, v. 28, Summer 1987; v. 29, Fall 1987. Reproduced by permission. —Georgia Review, v. LIV, Fall 2000. Reproduced by permission. —Irish Times, October 27, 2001. Reproduced by permission. —Journal of Narrative Technique, v. 16, Fall 1986; v. 19, Fall 1989. Reproduced by permission.—Los Angeles Times Book Review, August 7, 1983; December 17, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Los Angeles Times, October 3, 1995; October 13, 2000; October 16, 2000; November 1, 2000; February 27, 2001. Reproduced by permission.—MELUS, v. 25, Fall-Winter 2000. Reproduced by permission. —Michigan Quarterly Review, v. XXXVI, Summer 1997 for “Half in Love with Easeful Death,” by Steven G. Kellman. Reproduced by permission of the author. —Midwest Quarterly, v. 38, Spring 1997; Reproduced by permission. —Mississippi Quarterly, v. 50, Fall 1997. Reproduced by permission. —Modern Drama, v. 41, Fall 1998. Reproduced by permission. —Modern Fiction Studies, v. 34, Spring 1988. Reproduced by permission. —Narrative, v. 9, May 2001. Reproduced by permission.—New Leader, v. LXXXIV, January-February 2001. Reproduced by permission.—New Republic, v. 189, October 31, 1983. Reproduced by permission.—New York Review of Books, v. XLIV, October 9, 1997. Reproduced by permission. —PMLA, v. 106, October 1991. Reproduced by permission. —Quadrant, v. XLIV, April 2000 for “The Voice of One in the Wilderness,”; v. XLIV, September 2000 for “Journey without End,” by Oliver Burckhardt. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Review of Contemporary Fiction, v. XVIII, Spring 1998; v. XXI, Summer 2001. Reproduced by permission.—Sewanee Review, v. XCI, April 1983. Reproduced by permission. —Southern Humanities Review, v. XVIII, Summer 1984. Reproduced by permission.—Southern Literary Journal, v. 22, Spring 1990;

  • v. 32, Fall 1999. Reproduced by permission.—The Southern Quarterly, v. 30, Winter-Spring 1992. Reproduced by permission.—The Southern Review, v. 33, Winter 1997 for “Toward a New Southern Poetry: Southern Poetry in Contemporary American Literary History,” by Ernest Suarez. Reproduced by permission of the author. —Spectator, v. CCXLIX, October 9, 1982. Reproduced by permission. —Studies in American Fiction, v. 16, Spring 1988. Reproduced by permission. —Studies in Short Fiction, v. 30, Winter 1993. Reproduced by permission. —Texas Studies in Literature and Language,
  • v. 36, Winter 1994 for “Humor, Subjectivity, Resistance: The Case of Laughter in The Color Purple,” by Carole Anne Taylor. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author. —Times Literary Supplement, October 22, 1982; October 20, 2000; March 9, 2001; November 30, 2001. Reproduced by permission.—Virginia Quarterly Review, v. 77, Summer 2001. Reproduced by permission.—Washington Post Book World, January 14, 2001. Reproduced by permission.—Washington Post, February 8, 1990. Reproduced by permission.—World Literature Today, v. LXXIV, Autumn 2000; v. LXXV, Winter 2001. Reproduced by permission.
    • COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN CLC, VOLUME 167, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

    Bennett, Barbara. From Introduction to Comic Visions, Female Voices: Contemporary Women Novelists and Southern Humor. Louisiana State University Press, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Louisiana State University Press. All rights reserved.

    Reproduced by permission.—Buchanan, Harriette C. From “Lee Smith: The Storyteller’s Voice,” in Southern Women Writers: The New Generation. The University of Alabama Press, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by The University of Alabama Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Cawelti, John G. From “Cormac McCarthy: Restless Seekers,” in Southern Writers at Century’s End. Edited by Jeffrey J. Folks and James A. Perkins. The University Press of Kentucky, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by The University Press of Kentucky. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Chew, Martha. From “Rita Mae Brown: Feminist Theorist and Southern Novelist,” in Women Writers of the Contemporary South. Edited by Peggy Whitman Prenshaw. University Press of Mississippi, 1984. Copyright © 1984 by The Southern Quarterly. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Gabbin, Joanne Veal. From “The Southern Imagination of Sonia Sanchez,” in Southern Women Writers: The New Generation. The University of Alabama Press, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by The University of Alabama Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Gretlund, Jan Nordby. From “Josephine Humphreys’s New Southerner,” in Frames of Southern Mind: Reflections on the Stoic, Bi-Racial & Existential South. Odense University Press, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Jan Nordby Gretlund and Odense University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Lowe, John. From Introduction to The Future of Southern Letters. Edited by Jefferson Humphries and John Lowe. Oxford University Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Prenshaw, Peggy Whitman. From “The Construction of Confluence: The Female South and Eudora Welty’s Art,” in The Late Novels of Eudora Welty. Edited by Jan Nordby Gretlund and Karl-Heinz Westarp. University of South Carolina Press, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by University of South Carolina Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Spivey, Ted R. From “The City and the Quest for Cultural Values,” in Revival: Southern Writers in the Modern City. University Presses of Florida, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by University Presses of Florida. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Yaeger, Patricia. From “Beyond the Hummingbird: Southern Women Writers and the Southern Gargantua,” in Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts. Edited by Anne Goodwyn Jones and Susan V. Donaldson. University Press of Virginia, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

    PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS APPEARING IN CLC, VOLUME 167, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

    Delbanco, Nicholas, photograph. Reproduced by permission.—Gao Xingjian, photograph. Reuters/Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Walker, Alice, photograph. © Roger Ressmeyer/Corbis. Reproduced with permission.

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