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Volume 141

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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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.

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African American Review, v. 31, Spring, 1997 for a review of “Silent Interviews on Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction and Some Comics: A Collection of Written Interviews” by Sandra Y. Govan. © 1997 Sandra Y. Govan. Reproduced by permission.—Amerasia Journal, v. 21, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—American Film, v. xvi September, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by Billboard Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The American Political Science Review, v. 81, December, 1987. © 1987 American Political Science Association. Reproduced by permission.—Art in America, v. 78, July, 1990. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Artforum, October, 1982. Reproduced by permission.—The Atlantic Monthly,

  • v. 277, April, 1996. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Australian Science Fiction Review (second series), v. 1, no. 4, September, 1986 for “Debased and Lascivious? Samuel R. Delany’s ‘Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (second series)’” by Russell Blackford. Copyright © 1986, 1996 Russell Blackford. Reproduced by permission of the author.— Black American Literature Forum, v. 18, Summer, 1984 for “The Politics of Desire in Delany’s ‘Triton’ and ‘Tides of Lust’” by Robert Elliot Fox. Copyright © 1984 Robert Elliot Fox. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Book World—The Washington Post, January 31, 1988. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Chicago Tribune, October 18, 1992. Reproduced by permission/January 3, 1993. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The Christian Science Monitor, March 12, 1985; June 4, 1987; March 8, 1989; v. 82, January 10, 1990; January 20, 1993; February 18, 1994; May 13, 1999. Copyright © 1985, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1999 The Christian Science Publishing Society. Reproduced by permission.—Commonweal, v. 119, May 8, 1992; v. , May 22, 1992; v. 123, April 19, 1996. Copyright © 1992, 1996 by the Commonweal Foundation. Reproduced by permission.—Comparative Literature Studies, v. 29, 1992. Copyright © 1992, The Pennsylvania State University. Reproduced by permission.—Confluencia, v. 12, Fall, 1996; v. 12, Spring, 1997. Reproduced by permission.—Contemporary Sociology, v. 25, September, 1996. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Critique, v. 41, Fall, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Cross Currents, v. 46, Spring, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Daily News, May 29, 1987; June 5, 1987; February 9, 1990; February 16, 1990; February 4, 1994. © New York Daily News, L.P. Reprinted-reproduced by permission.—English Language Notes, v. 33, March, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Extrapolation, v. 34, Spring, 1993; v. 36, Summer, 1995. © 1993, 1995 by The Kent State University Press. Reproduced by permission.—The Farmville Herald, March 21, 1990; April 1, 1998; June 4, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Film Quarterly, v. xxxix, Summer, 1986. © 1986 by the Regents of the University of California. Reproduced by permission.—The Georgia Review, v. 43, Summer, 1989. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Hispanic Review,
  • v. 63, Spring, 1995. Reproduced by permission.—The Hollins Critic, v. xxviii, February, 1991. Copyright 1991 by Hollins College. Reproduced by permission.—The Hudson Review, v. 45, Summer, 1992; v. 52, Winter, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, v. 19, August, 1998. Reproduced by permission.—Latin American Literary Review, v. 24, July, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Literature Film Quarterly, v. 24, no. 3, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—London Review of Books, v. 8, November 6, 1986; September 12, 1991; v. 18, January 4, 1996. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Los Angeles Times Book Review, March 17, 1985; July 19, 1987; July 23, 1995; March 17, 1996; May 10, 1998. Copyright © 1985, 1987, 1995, 1996, 1998 by Times Mirror Company. Reproduced by permission.—The Midwest Quarterly, v. xxxvii, Winter, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—MLN, v. 104, April, 1989. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Age, v. 16, Winter, 1972. Reproduced by permission.—Multicultural Review, v. 2, June, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, CT.—The Nation, New York, v. 261, September 25, 1995; v. 263, October 28, 1996; v. 269, October 18, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—National Review, v. xl, September 16, 1988; August 17, 1992; v. xxxix, December 14, 1992; August 14, 1995. Copyright © 1998, 1992, 1995 by National Review, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—The New Leader, v. 81, June 29, 1998; v. 82, April 5, 1999. Copyright © 1998, 1999 by American Labor

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    v. xvi, Fall, 1996; v. xvii, Spring, 1997; v. xvii, Fall, 1997. Reproduced by permission.—Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 7, 1968; July 28, 1985; April 3, 1988; May 15, 1988; May 20, 1990; September 11, 1994; April 12, 1998; April 29, 1998; April 30, 1998; June 27, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Salmagundi, ns. 82 & 83, Spring-Summer, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by Skidmore College. Reproduced by permission.—Science-Fiction Studies, v. 17, July, 1990; v. 22, July, 1995; v. 24, July, 1997. Reproduced by permission.—The Sewanee Review, v. 104, no. 3, Summer, 1996 for “Taking Measure: Violent Intruders in William Hoffman’s Short Fiction” by Fred Chappell. © 1996 by Fred Chappell. Reproduced by permission of publisher and author/v. 91 no. 3, Summer, 1983 v. 93, no. 4, Fall, 1985; v. 100, no. 2, Spring, 1992. Reproduced by permission.—Sight and Sound, v. 57, Autumn, 1988; v. 6, April, 1996; v. 8, June, 1998; v. 8, November, 1998. Reproduced by permission.—Southwest Review, v. 79, Autumn, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in the Novel, v. 20, Winter, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Tikkun, v. 11, January-February, 1996. Copyright © 1996 Institute for Labor and Mental Health. Reproduced by permission.—Times Literary Supplement, September 27, 1991; October 23, 1992; April 28, 1995; January 3, 1997; November 19, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Translation Review, ns. 48 & 49, 1995. Reproduced by permission.—The Village Voice, vol. 31, no. 7, February 15, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—The Wall Street Journal, February 20, 1990. Copyright © 2001 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Reproduced by permission of The Wall Street Journal.—Washington Monthly, v. 27, November, 1995. Copyright © 1995 Washington Monthly Company. Reproduced by permission.—The Washington Post, February 4, 2001. Reproduced by permission.—Women’s Studies, v. 22, 1993. © 1993 Gordon and Breach Science Publishers S.A. Reproduced by permission.—World Literature Today, v. 64, Summer, 1990; v. 65, Autumn, 1991; v. 67, Winter, 1993; v. 69, Winter, 1995; v. 71, Autumn, 1997. Reproduced by permission.

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    Birkerts, Sven. From “Julian Barnes,” in British Writers: Supplement IV. Edited by George Stade and Carol Howard. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Charles Scribner’s Sons. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Collins, Robert A. From “Allegory in Delany’s ‘Einstein Intersection’,” in Forms of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Third International Conference on the Fantastic in Literature and Film. Edited by Jan Hokenson and Howard Pearce. Greenwood Press, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by The Thomas Burnett Swann Fund. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Greenwood Press, Inc., Westport, CT.—Frank, William L. From “The Novels of William Hoffman: One Writer’s Spiritual Odyssey from World War II to the Twenty-First Century,” in The Fictional World of William Hoffman. Edited by William L. Frank. University of Missouri Press, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by The Curators of the University of Missouri. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Higdon, David Leon. From “‘Unconfessed Confessions”: The Narrators of Graham Swift and Julian Barnes,” in The British and Irish Novel Since 1960. Edited by James Acheson. Macmillan, 1991. Chapter © David Leon Higdon 1991. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Lawless, Cecelia. From “Cooking, Community, Culture: A Reading of ‘Like Water for Chocolate’,” in Recipes for Reading: Community Cookbooks, Stories, Histories. Edited by Anne L. Bower. University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by The University of Massachusetts Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Morace, Robert A. From The Dialogic Novels of Malcolm Bradbury and David Lodge. Southern Illinois University Press, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Siegle, Robert. From Suburban Ambush: Downtown Writing and the Fiction of Insurgency. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. Reproduced by permission Johns Hopkins University Press.—Van Ness, Gordon. From “The American Adam in the Southern Wasteland: William Hoffman’s ‘Follow Me Home’ and the Ethics of Redemption,” in The Fictional World of William Hoffman. Edited by William L. Frank. University of Missouri Press, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by The Curators of the University of Missouri. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Zapata, Monica. From “‘Like Water for Chocolate’ and the Free Circulation of Cliches,” in Latin American Postmodernisms. Edited by Richard A. Young. Rodopi, 1994. Reproduced by permission.

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    Barnes, Julian, photograph. © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.—Bogosian, Eric, photograph. The Kobal Collection. Reproduced by permission.—Delany, Samuel R., photograph. Masquerade Books. Reproduced by permission.—Esquivel,

    Laura. Toelke, Cathleen, illustrator. From a cover of Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel. Anchor Books, 1995. Reproduced by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.—Gilliam, Terry, photograph Copyright © Python Productions, Ltd. Reproduced by permission.—Lodge, David, photograph by Wyatt Counts. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.