Contemporary Literary Criticism


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Volume 137

Contemporary Literary Criticism

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

Jeffrey W. Hunter

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Rebecca J. Blanchard Justin Karr Linda Pavlovski

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Acknowledgments

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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  • v. 70, December, 1980. Reproduced by permission.—American Literature, v. 46, November, 1974; v. 50, March, 1978; v. 59, March, 1987; v. 65, June, 1993; v. 69, June, 1997. Reproduced by permission of Duke University Press.—The Antioch Review, v. 54, Summer, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Bridge News, July 19, 2000. Copyright © 2000, Bridge News. http://www.bridge.com. Reproduced by permission.—Chicago Review, v. 40, Spring & Summer, 1994; v. 43, Spring, 1997. Reproduced by permission.—The Christian Century, v. 116, December 1, 1999. Copyright 1999 The Christian Century Foundation. Reproduced by permission.—The Christian Science Monitor, January 17, 1996; March 25, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—CLA Journal, v. XL, September, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—College Literature, v. 19, October, 1992; v. 21, June, 1994; v. 22, February, 1995. Copyright © West Chester University 1992, 1994, 1995. Reproduced by permission.—Commonwealth Novel in English, v. 5, Spring, 1992. Reproduced by permission.—Contemporary Literature, v. XXXII, Winter, 1991; v. XXXV, Spring, 1994; v. XXXV, Winter, 1994. © 1991, 1994 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. Reproduced by permission.—Criticism, v. XX, Winter, 1978; v. XXIV, Winter, 1982;
  • v. XXX, Spring, 1988. Copyright © 1978, 1982, 1988 by Wayne State University Press. Reproduced by permission.—The Economist, New York, v. 351, May 15, 1999. Copyright 1999 The Economist Newspaper Ltd. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—English Journal, v. 89, March, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by National Council of Teachers of English Conference on College Composition and Communication. Reproduced by permission.—Extrapolation, v. 35, Spring, 1994; v. 36, Winter, 1995. © 1994, 1995 by The Kent State University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Fantasy & Science Fiction, v. 98, January, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Mercury Press, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Foreign Affairs,
  • v. 73, May-June, 1994; v. 76, September-October, 1997; v. 76, September-October, 1997; v. 78, May, 1999. Copyright © 1994, 1997, 1997, 1999 Council on Foreign Relations Inc. Reproduced by permission.—The Globe and Mail, July 10, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Hindu, July 24, 2000. Copyright © 2000 Financial Times Information Ltd. Reproduced by permission.—The Horn Book Magazine, v. LXXV, September-October, 1999. Copyright 1999 by Horn Book, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Insight on the News, v. 14, September 21, 1998. Copyright © 1998 Washington Times Corporation. Reproduced by permission.—International Journal, v. XXI, Spring, 1966. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, v. 51, Fall, 1993. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of American Studies, v. 21, August, 1982; v.32, April, 1998. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of English and Germanic Philology, v. 77, April, 1978; v. 82, April, 1983; v. 87, January, 1988; v. 92, July, 1993. Reproduced by permission.—Library Journal, v. 124, October 15, 1999; v. 125, March 1, 2000. Copyright © 1999; 2000 by Cahners Magazine Division of Reed Publishing USA. Reproduced by permission.—Los Angeles Times Book Review, January 14, 1996; June 21, 1987; May 27, 1990. Reproduced by permission.—The London Review of Books, v. 16, July 21, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Melus, v. 21, Fall, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Minnesota Review, ns. 43 & 44, November, 1995. Reproduced by permission.—Mississippi Review, v. 20, 1991. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Fiction Studies, v. 39, Summer, 1993; v. 44, Spring, 1998. Copyright © 1993 by Purdue Research Foundation, 1998 for the Purdue Research Foundation by the Johns Hopkins University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—The Nation, New York, February 18, 1991; February 5, 1996; November 3, 1997. Reproduced by permission.—National Review, v. 46, June 13, 1994; v. 51, May 17, 1999; v. 51, October 11, 1999. Copyright © 1994, 1999 National Review Inc. Reproduced by permission.—The New Leader, v. 82, November 1-15, 1999. Copyright American Labor Conference on International Affairs, 1999. Reproduced by permission. —The New Republic, June 21, 1999; November 22, 1999. Copyright © 1999 The New Republic, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—The New York Review of Books, v. 46, December 16, 1999. Copyright © NYREV, Inc., 1999. Reproduced by permission.—New Statesman, September 11, 1987; November 9, 1990; September 27, 1991, October 11, 1996; May 10, 1999; November 1, 1999; December 20, 1999. Copyright © 1987, 1990, 1991, 1996, 1999 New Statesman, Ltd. Repro
  • duced by permission.—The New York Times, March 17, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by The New York Times Company. Reproduced by permission.—The New Yorker, v. LXXIV, June 15, 1998. Reproduced by permission.—The News Tribune, July 10, 2000. Copyright © 2000, The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA. Reproduced by permission.—The Orlando Sentinel, July 10, 2000. Copyright © 2000, The Orlando Sentinel. Reproduced by permission.—The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 10, 2000. Copyright © 2000, The Philadelphia Inquirer. Reproduced by permission.—PMLA, v. 108, May, 1993. Reproduced by permission.—The Political Science Reviewer, v. XXII, 1993. Reproduced by permission.—Prairie Schooner, v. 73, Fall, 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Publishers Weekly, v. 243, January 1, 1996; v. 246, February 15, 1999; v. 246, July 19, 1999; v. 246, November 1, 1999; v. 246, October 4, 1999; v. 247, April 17, 2000; v. 247, January 3, 2000. Copyright © 1996, 1999, 2000 Reed Publishing USA. Reproduced by permission.—Review of Contemporary Fiction, v. 17, Summer, 1997. Reproduced by permission.—The San Francisco Review of Books, v. 18, January-February, 1993. Reproduced by permission.—Science-Fiction Studies, v. 18, March, 1991; v. 19, November 1992; v. 21, March, 1994; v. 24, July, 1997. Reproduced by permission.—School Library Journal, v. 45, September, 1999; v. 46, May, 2000. Copyright © 1999, 2000 by Cahners Magazine Division of Reed Publishing USA. Reproduced by permission.—The Spectator, London, September 14, 1985; September 28, 1991; September 21, 1996; April 8, 2000. Copyright © 1985, 1991,1996, 2000 by The Spectator. Reproduced by permission.—The Sun-Sentinel, July 10, 2000. Copyright © 2000, Sun-Sentinel, South Florida. Reproduced by permission.—Time, v. 156, July 17, 2000. Copyright © 2000 Time, Inc. Reproduced by permission.— Ultimate Reality and Meaning, v. 19, September, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Wasafiri, n. 9, Winter, 1988-89. Reproduced by permission.—The Washington Post Book World, July 3, 1988; October 7, 1990. Reproduced by permission.—The Women’s Review of Books, February, 1991, March, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—World Literature Today, v. 65, Spring, 1991; v. 66, Winter, 1992; v. 68, Summer, 1994; v. 68, Winter, 1994; v. 71, Winter, 1997; v. 72, Autumn, 1988; v. 74, Winter, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—Writer’s Digest, v. 80, February, 2000. Copyright©F& W Publications, Inc., 2000. Reproduced by permission.

    COPYRIGHTED EXCERPTS IN CLC, VOLUME 137, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

    Covi, Giovanna. From “Jamaica Kincaid and the Resistance to Canons,” in Out of Kumbla: Caribbean Women and Literature. Edited by Carole Boyce Davies and Elaine Savory Fido. Africa World Press, 1990. © Africa World Press, Inc. 1990. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Mazrui, Alamin. From “Mapping Islam in Farah’s ‘Maps’,” in The Marabout and the Muse: New Approaches to Islam in African Literature. Edited by Kenneth W. Harrow. Heinemann, 1996. © 1996 by Heinemann. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Rushdie, Salman. From Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticisms, 1981-1991. Granta Books/Penguin Books, 1991. Copyright © Salman Rushdie, 1991. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

    PHOTOGRAPHS APPEARING IN CLC, VOLUME 137, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

    Ballard, J. G., photograph. Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.—Farah, Nuruddin, photograph. © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.—Kincaid, Jamaica, photograph. © Liaison Agency. Reproduced by permission.—Kissinger, Henry, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Rowling, J. K., photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.

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