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Volume 171

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 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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America, v. 177, December 20, 1997; v. 181, July 31, 1999; v. 184, April 23-30, 2001. © 1997, 1999, 2001. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission of America Press, Inc., 106 West 56th Street, New York, NY, 10019.—American Indian Culture and Research Journal, v. 16, Spring 1992. Copyright © 1992 The Regents of the University of California. Reproduced by permission.—American Indian Quarterly, v. 18, Winter 1994; v. 21, Summer 1998; v. 24, Spring 2000. Copyright © The University of Nebraska Press 1994. Reproduced by permission.—American Spectator, v. 28, January 1995. Copyright © The American Spectator 1995. Reproduced by permission.—Belles Lettres, v. 10, Fall 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Canadian Forum, v. 72, January-February 1994 for “Coyote Slips across the Border” by Parker Duchemin; v. 78, December 1999 for “Native Novels Range from Passionate to Polished” by Warren Cariou. Reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—Canadian Literature, v. 138-139, Fall/Winter 1993 for “Grace and Gall” by William

J. Scheick. Reproduced by permission of the author/v. 149, Summer 1996; v. 161-162, Summer/Autumn 1999; v. 167, Winter 2000; v. 168, Spring 2001. Reproduced by permission.—Christian Science Monitor, August 5, 1988 for “Portraits of Six Men Who Would Be President—and One Who Is” by Merle Rubin. Reproduced by permission of the author/v. 92, April 13, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Commonweal, v. 123, May 17, 1996. Copyright © 1996 Commonweal Publishing Co., Inc. Reproduced by permission of Commonweal Foundation.—Contemporary Sociology, v. 23, September 1994 for a review of “Islam and Democracy” by Daniel Brumberg. Copyright © 1994 American Sociological Association. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—History, v. 82, July 1997. Copyright © 1997 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.—International Journal of Middle East Studies, v. 25, August 1993 for a review of “The Veil and the Male Elite” by Marlene Kanawati; v. 26, May 1994 for a review of “Islam and Democracy” by Miriam Cooke; v. 31, August 1999 for a review of “The Forgotten Queens of Islam, by Fatima Mernissi” by Mary Ann Fay. Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1999, by Cambridge University Press. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors.—Journal of World History, v. 2, Spring 2000. Reproduced by permission.—London Review of Books, December 8, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Los Angeles Times Book Review, July 6, 1986; December 16, 1990; July 23, 1995. Copyright, 1986, 1990, 1995 Los Angeles Times. Reproduced by permission.—MELUS, v. 21, Summer 1996. Copyright © MELUS: The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Middle East Journal, v. 48, Spring 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Middle East Policy, v. 2, 1993. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Fiction Studies, v. 45, Spring 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Mosaic, v. 30, September 1997. © Mosaic 1997. Acknowledgment of previous publication is herewith made. Reproduced by permission.—Nation, February 7, 2000. © 2000 The Nation Magazine/The Nation Company, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—National Review, v. 43, February 11, 1991. Copyright ©1991 by National Review. Reproduced by permission.—New Criterion, v. 14, December 1995, for “Seamus Heaney’s ‘Middle Voice’” by Richard Tillinghast. Copyright © 1995 by The Foundation for Cultural Review. Reproduced by permission of the author.— New Republic, September 18, 1976; September 28, 1987; March 1, 1993; November 20, 1995; February 28, 2000; October 9, 2000. © 1976, 1987, 1993, 1995, 2000, The New Republic, Inc. Reproduced by permission of The New Republic.—New Statesman and Society, August 6, 1993; February 24, 1995; v. 127, September 18, 1998; v. 130, April 15, 2001. © 1993, 1995, 1998, 2001, Statesman & Nation Publishing Company Limited. Reproduced by permission.—New York Review of Books, v. 23, October 28, 1976; v. 38, April 11, 1991. Copyright © 1976, 1991, Nyrev, Inc. Reproduced with permission from The New York Review of Books.—Papers on Language and Literature, v. 37, Spring 2001. Copyright © 2001 by The Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Reproduced by permission.—Partisan Review, v. 62, Winter 1995; v. 64, Fall 1997. Copyright © 1995, 1997 by Partisan Review. Reproduced by permission.—Poetry, v. 177, December 2000 for “Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf” by Bruce Murphy; v. 179, February 2002 for a review of “Electric Light by Seamus Heaney” by John Taylor. © 2000, 2002 by the Modern Poetry Association. Reproduced by permission of the

publisher and the respective authors.—Political Science Quarterly, v. 106, Fall 1991; v. 108, Spring 1993. Reproduced by permission.—Publishers Weekly, May 20, 1988. Copyright 1988 by Reed Publishing USA. Reproduced from Publishers Weekly, published by the Bowker Magazine Group of Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Publishing USA, by permission.—The Review of Contemporary Fiction, v. 15, Fall 1995. Reproduced by permission.—San Francisco Review of Books, v. 17, January 1992. Reproduced by permission.—Signs, v. 21, Autumn 1995. Copyright © 1995 by The University of Chicago. Reproduced by permission.—Sociology, v. 26, May 1992. Reproduced by permission.—Southern Review, v. 31, July 1995. Reproduced by permission.—Spectator, v. 283, December 25, 1999; v. 288, April 6, 2002. © 1999, 2002 by The Spectator. Reproduced by permission of The Spectator.—Symposium, v. 39, Spring 1985 for “The Ambiviolent Fiction of Severo Sarduy” by Rene Prieto. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Texas Studies in Literature and Language, v. 40, Winter 1998. Reproduced by permission.—Times Literary Supplement, January 21, 1994; October 1, 1999; March 17, 2000; May 4, 2001. © The Times Supplements Limited 1994, 1999, 2000, 2001. Reproduced by permission from The Times Literary Supplement.—Twentieth Century Literature, v. 44, Summer 1998; v. 46, Fall 2000. Copyright 1998, 2000, Hofstra University Press. Reproduced by permission.—University of Toronto Quarterly, v. 65, Winter 1995. © University of Toronto Press 1995. Reproduced by permission of University of Toronto Press Incorporated.— Washington Post Book World, May 29, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Women and Politics, v. 12, 1992. Reproduced by permission.—Women’s Review of Books, v. 6, May 1989 for “The Voice behind the Veil” by Judith E. Tucker; v. 9, December 1991 for “Back to Basics?” by Marilyn Booth; v. 18, July 2001 for “West Side Stories” by Lisa Suhair Majaj. Copyright © 1989, 1991, 2001 Reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—World Literature Today, v, 67, Autumn 1993; v. 69, Spring 1995; v. 69, Winter 1995; v. 70, Spring 1996; v. 70, Summer 1996; v. 70, Autumn 1996; v. 73, Summer 1999; v. 73, Winter 1999; v. 75, Winter 2001; v. 76, Winter 2002. Copyright 1993, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2002 by the University of Oklahoma Press. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

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Clum, John M. From “Love and War: Gay Drama at the Turn of the Century,” in Still Acting Gay: Male Homosexuality in Modern Drama. St. Martin’s Press, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by John M. Clum. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Deane, Seamus. From “Powers of Earth and Visions of Air,” in Seamus Heaney: The Shaping Spirit. Edited by Catharine Malloy and Phyllis Carey. University of Delaware Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by University of Delaware Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Fraile-Marcos, Ana Marie. From “‘As Purple to Lavender’: Alice Walker’s Womanist Representation of Lesbianism,” in Literature and Homosexuality. Edited by Michael J. Meyer. Rodopi, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Editions Rodopi B.V. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Harne, Lynne. From “Beyond Sex and Romance?: Lesbian Relationships in Contemporary Fiction,” in Beyond Sex and Romance?: The Politics of Contemporary Lesbian Fiction. Edited by Elaine Hutton. The Women’s Press, Ltd., 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Elaine Hutton. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Libretti, Tim. From “History and Queer Consciousness: The Dialectics of Gay Identity in U.S. Literature,” in Literature and Homosexuality. Edited by Michael J. Meyer. Rodopi, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Editions Rodopi B.V. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Lilly, Mark. From “Andrew Holleran: Dancer from the Dance and Nights in Aruba” and “David Leavitt: The Lost Language of Cranes,”in Gay Men’s Literature in the Twentieth Century. New York University Press, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Mark Lilly. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Ortiz, Ricardo L. From “Sexuality Degree Zero: Pleasure and Power in the Novels of John Rechy, Arturo Islas, and Michael Nava,” in Critical Essays: Gay and Lesbian Writers of Color. Edited by Emmanuel S. Nelson. The Haworth Press, Inc., 1993. Copyright © 1993 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Price-Hughes, Tara. From “Worlds In and Out of Balance: Alternative Genders and Gayness in the Almanac of the Dead and the Beet Queen,”in Literature and Homosexuality. Edited by Michael J. Meyer. Rodopi, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Editions Rodopi B.V. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Wingfield, Rachel. From “Lesbian Writers in the Mainstream: Sara Maitland, Jeanette Winterson, and Emma Donoghue,” in Beyond Sex and Romance?: The Politics of Contemporary Lesbian Fiction. Edited by Elaine Hutton. The Women’s Press, Ltd., 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Elaine Hutton. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

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