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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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America, v. 143, August 2, 1980. Reproduced by permission.—The American Journal of Psychiatry, v. 153, December, 1996. Copyright American Psychiatric Association 1996. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—The American Scholar, v. 42, Autumn, 1973. Reproduced by permission.—The Antioch Review, v. 54, Winter, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Ariel, v. 10, October, 1979 for “The Tyranny of History: George Lamming’s Natives of My Person and Water with Berries,” by Helen Tiffin; v. 22, April, 1991 for “George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin: Finding Promise in the Land,” by Neil Ten Kortenaar; v. 28, April, 1997 for “George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin: A Modern West Indian Novel,” by Viney Kirpal. All reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors.— Artforum, v. 34, Summer, 1996 for “High Society,” by Simon Reynolds. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Belles Lettres, v. 11, January 31, 1996. Copyright 1996 Belles Lettres, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Book World—The Washington Post, September 9, 1973 for “What Did You Learn in School Today?,” by Susan Jacoby. Copyright © 1973 by Susan Jacoby. Reproduced by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc., on behalf of the author./ September 24, 1978; July 12, 1992. Reproduced by permission.—Callaloo, v. 11, Spring, 1988. Reproduced by permission.—Chicago Tribune Books, June 30, 1996 for “ No Accident,” by Judith Dunford. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Choice, v. 32, March, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by the American Library Association. Reproduced by permission.—The Christian Century, v. xcvi February 28, 1979. Reproduced by permission.—The Christian Science Monitor, v. 80, September 7, 1988; v. 81, October 30, 1989; v. 87, April 4, 1995; v. 90, March 26, 1998.. Reproduced by permission.— Cineaste, v. 17, 1990. Reproduced by permission.—Commonweal, v. cv, December 22, 1978; v. cxi August 10, 1984; v. 123, September 13, 1996; n. 4, December 5, 1997. Copyright 1978, 1984, 1996, 1997 Commonweal Foundation. Reproduced by permission.—Critique, v. 39, Summer, 1998. Copyright 1998 Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. Reproduced by permission.—Film Comment, v. 33, May-June, 1997, in a review of Beyond the Clouds, by Peter Hogue. Copyright 1997 Film Society of Lincoln Center. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Film Criticism, v. 22, Winter, 1997. Copyright 1997 Allegheny College. Reproduced by permission.—Film Quarterly, v. 37, Spring, 1984; v. 48, Summer, 1995; v. 50, Summer, 1997; v. 51, Fall, 1997. Copyright © 1984, 1995, 1997 by The Regents of the University of California. Reproduced by permission.—Frontiers, v. 18, 1997. Copyright Frontiers Publishing, Inc. 1997. Reproduced by permission.—Griot, v. 13, Fall, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—The Guardian, London, May 19, 1995. Copyright 1995 Guardian Newspapers Limited. Reproduced by permission.—Insight on the News, v. 12, September 16, 1996. Copyright 1996 News World Communications. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of Commonwealth Literature, v. 22, 1987; v. 23, 1988. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of West Indian Literature, v. 4, January, 1990; v. 5, August, 1992. Reproduced by permission.—Literature/Film Quarterly, v. 17, April, 1989; v. 25, July, 1997; v. 26, October, 1998. Copyright Literature/Film Quarterly 1989, 1997, 1998. Reproduced by permission.—London Review of Books, v. 10, April 21, 1988 for “You Bet Your Life,” by Margaret Walters; v. 14, August 20, 1992 for “Falling for Desmoulins,” by P.N. Furbank; v. 15, December 2, 1993 for “Sick Boys,” by Jenny Turner; v. 16, April 28, 1994 for “Sick Boys,” by Anna Vaux; v. 17, March 9, 1995 for “The Little Woman Inside,” by Dinah Birch; v. 20, October 1, 1998 for “Freak Anatomist,” by John Mullan. All reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors. www.lrb.co.uk —Los Angeles Times Book Review, November 10, 1991; July 7, 1996; August 18, 1996; September 14, 1997; April 5, 1998; September 20, 1998. Reproduced by permission.—Midamerica, v. xv, 1988; v. xix, 1992. Reproduced by permission.—The Midwest Quarterly, v. 40, Autumn, 1998. Reproduced by permission.—Midwestern Miscellany, v. xxii, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Ms. Magazine, v. 7, October, 1978. Reproduced by permission.—The Nation, New York, v. 228, January 6, 1979; v. 230, June 14, 1980; v. 262, June 24, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—National Review, September 19, 1980. Copyright © 1980 by National Review, Inc, 215 Lexington Avenue. New York, NY 10016. Reproduced by permission.— The New Republic, v. 23, June 7, 1980; v. 215, September 2, 1996; v. 215, October 28, 1996. Copyright 1980,1996 The New Republic Inc. Reproduced by permission.—New Statesman, v. 128, May 3, 1999. Copyright 1999 New Statesman

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    Brunette, Peter. From The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni. Cambridge University Press, 1998. © Peter Brunette 1998. Reproduced by permission.— Buhle, Paul. From C. L. R. James’s Caribbean. Edited by Paget Henry and Paul Buhle. Duke University Press, 1992. © 1992 Duke University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.— Chatman, Seymour. From Antonioni or, The Surface of the World. University of California Press, 1985. © 1985 by The Regents of the University of California. Reproduced by permission.—Hulme, Peter. From “The Profit of Language: George Lamming and the Postcolonial Novel,” in Recasting the World: Writing after Colonialism. Edited by Jonathan White. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. © 1993 The Johns Hopkins University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Johnson, Charles W. From Philosophy in Literature, Vol. II. EMText: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1992. Copyright © 1992 Charles W. Johnson. Reproduced by permission.— Mathieson, Barbara. From “The Polluted Quarry: Nature and Body in ‘A Thousand Acres’,” in Transforming Shakespeare: Contemporary Women’s Re-Visions in Literature and Performance. Edited by Marianne Novy. St. Martin’s Press, 1999. Copyright © Marianne Novy, 1999. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of St. Martin’s Press, LLC.— Schwarzer, Mitchell. From “The Consuming Landscape: Architecture in the Films of Michelangelo Antonioni,” in Architecture and Film. Edited by Mark Lamster. Princeton Architectural Press, 2000. Copyright © 2000 Princeton Architectural Press. Reproduced by permission.— Tiffin, Helen. From “Freedom after the Fall: Renaissance and Disillusionment in ‘Water with Berries’ and ‘Guerrillas’,” in Individual and Community in Commonwealth Literature. Edited by Daniel Massa. University Press, 1979. Reproduced by permission.

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    Antonioni, Michelangelo, 1995, photograph. Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Harrison, Barbara, photograph by Maggie Stern Terris. Reproduced by permission of Barbara Harrison.—Lamming, George, photograph by Carl Van Vechten. Reproduced by permission of the Estate of Carl Van Vechten.—Smiley, Jane, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Smiley, Jane, smiling, right hand touching chin, wearing a mickey mouse shirt, watch on right wrist, dark frame glasses, short curly hair, heart necklace, photograph. © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.

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