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African American Review, v. 27, Summer, 1993 for “‘His Feet on Your Neck’: The New Religion in the Works of Ernest J. Gaines” by Lee Papa; v. 28, Fall, 1994 for “Redemption according to Ernest Gaines” by David E. Vancil. Both reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—America, v. 176, March 1, 1997; v. 187, October 21, 2002. © 1997, 2002. All rights reserved. Both reproduced by permission of America Press, Inc., 106 West 56th Street, New York, NY 10019. www.americamagazine.org—American Journalism Review,v. 16, March, 1994. Reproduced by permission.—American Lawyer, v. 21, December, 1999 for “The Outsider” by Frances Olsen. Reproduced by permission of the author.—American Political Science Review, v. 84, June, 1990; v. 95, September, 2001. Copyright 1990, 2001. Both reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press.—American Quarterly, v. 47, December, 1995. © The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—The American Spectator, v. 27, February 1994. Copyright © The American Spectator 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Antioch Review, v. 52, Winter, 1994; v. 56, Spring 1998; v. 60, Spring, 2002. Copyright © 1994, 1998, 2002 by the Antioch Review Inc. All reproduced by permission.—Atlantic Monthly, v. 287, June 2001 for a review of Empire Falls, by James Marcus. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Black American Literature Forum,

v. 11, Spring 1977 for “To Make These Bones Live: History and Community in Ernest Gaines’s Fiction” by Jack Hicks; v. 11, Winter, 1977 for “‘We Ain’t Going Back There’: The Idea of Progress in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman”by William L. Andrews; v. 18, Fall, 1984 for “The Individual and the Community in Two Short Stories by Ernest J. Gaines” by John W. Roberts. Copyright © 1977, 1984 by the respective authors. All reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors.—The Black Scholar, v. 25, Spring, 1995. Copyright 1995 by The Black Scholar. Reproduced by permission.—Book, July, 2001. Reproduced by permission.—Boston Globe, June 27, 1993; January 26, 1995; June 27, 2001; August 5, 2001. All reproduced by permission.—Boundary 2, v. 23, Spring, 1996. Copyright, 1996, Duke University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Callaloo, v. 22. Winter, 1999. © The Johns Hopkins University Press. 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Copyright © 1994 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.—Ethics, v. 101, July, 1991 for a review of Toward a Feminist Theory of the State, by Michael J. Meyer. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Hypatia, v. 7, Winter, 1992. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of American Studies, v. 23, April, 1989. Reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press.—Kirkus Reviews, v. 71, March 1, 2003. Copyright © 2003 The Kirkus Service, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Kirkus Reviews and Kirkus Associates, L.P.—Latin American Literary Review, v. 28, January-June, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—London Review of Books, v. 16, May 12, 1994. Appears here by permission of the London Review of Books.—Los Angeles Times, May 20, 1998. Copyright 1998 by Los Angeles Times. Both reproduced by permission.—Los Angeles Times Book Review, September 13, 1988; February 11, 1996; September 21, 1997; June 10, 2001. Copyright 1988, 1996, 1997, 2001 by Los Angeles Times. All reproduced by permission.—MELUS, v. 15, Fall, 1988; v. 21, Summer, 1996; v. 24, Spring, 1999. Copyright 1988, 1996, 1999 by MELUS, The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. All reproduced by permission.—Michigan Law Review, v. 86, May, 1988 for “Law and Sex” by Christina B. Whitman; v. 92, May, 1994 for “A Review of Only Words” by David C. Dinielli. Both reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors.—Mississippi Quarterly, v. 52, Spring, 1999. Copyright 1999 by Mississippi State University. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Language Studies, v. 18, Summer, 1988. Copyright 1988 by Northeast Modern Language Association. Reproduced by permission.—Names, v. 40, June, 1992. Copyright © by American Name Society. 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v. 209, October 18, 1993; v. 218, March 30, 1998; June 29, 1998; v. 226, February 11, 2002. © 1993, 1998, 2002 The New Republic, Inc. All reproduced by permission of The New Republic.—New Statesman, v. 98, December 14, 1979; v. 129, May 29, 2000; v. 131, March 25, 2002; v. 132, November 24, 2003. © 1979, 2000, 2002, 2003 by Statesman & Nation Publishing Company Limited. All reproduced by permission.—New Statesman and Society, v. 6, July 30, 1993; v. 7, June 3, 1994. © 1993, 1994 by Statesman & Nation Publishing Company Limited. Both reproduced by permission.—The New York Review of Books, v. 40, October 21, 1993. Copyright © 1993 Nyrev, Inc. Reproduced with permission from The New York Review of Books.—NWSA, v. 9, Summer, 1997. Reproduced by permission.—PMLA, v. 108, May, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by the Modern Language Association of America. Reproduced by permission of the Modern Language Association of America.—Political Science Quarterly, v. 94, Winter, 1980. Copyright 1980, by the Editors of Political Science Quarterly. Reproduced by permission.—Publishers Weekly, v. 240, June 7, 1993; v. 250, March 3, 2003. Copyright 1993, 2003 by Reed Publishing USA. Both reproduced from Publishers Weekly, published by the Bowker Magazine Group of Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Publishing USA, by permission.—Quarterly Journal of Speech, v. 82, November, 1996 for a review of Only Words, by Lester Olson. Copyright © 1996 by the Speech Communication Association. Used by permission of Taylor and Francis, Ltd. and the author. http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00335630.html—Reason Magazine, v. 25, February, 1994. Copyright 1994 Reason Foundation, 3415 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 400, Los Angeles, CA 90034. Reproduced by permission. www.reason.com.—Review of Contemporary Fiction, v. 17, Spring, 1997; v. 18, Fall, 1998; v. 22, Spring, 2002. All reproduced by permission.—Review of Politics, v. 53, Fall, 1991; v. 56, Summer, 1994. Copyright, 1991, 1994 by the University of Notre Dame. Both reproduced by permission.—Signs, v. 13, Summer, 1988; v. 16, Spring, 1991. Copyright © 1988, 1991 by The University of Chicago. Both reproduced by permission.—Sojourners, v. 31, September-October 2002. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission from Sojurners. www.sojo.net.—Southern Literary Journal, v. 24, Fall, 1991; v. 27, Spring, 1995. Copyright © 1991, 1995 by the Department of English of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Both reproduced by permission.—The Southern Review, v. 17, Spring, 1981 for “In My Father’s House: Ernest Gaines after Jane Pittman” by Frank W. Shelton; v. 21, Summer, 1985 for “The Quarters: Ernest Gaines and the Sense of Place” by Charles H. Rowell. Copyright 1981, 1985 by Louisiana State University. Both reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—Spectator, v. 281, July 25, 1998; v. 288, March 30, 2002; v. 293, November 15, 2003. © 1998, 2002, 2003 by The Spectator. All reproduced by permission of The Spectator.— Times Literary Supplement, no. 4379, March 6, 1987; no. 4497, June 9-15, 1989; no. 4686, January 22, 1993; no. 4921, July 25, 1997; no. 5127, July 6, 2001. © 1987, 1989, 1993, 1997, 2001 by The Times Supplements Limited. All reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission.—Washington Post Book World, v. 18, November 27, 1988 for “Life with Father and Son” by James McConkey; v. 23, June 6, 1993 for “The Strife of Bath” by Howard Frank Mosher; v. 31, May 27-June 2, 2001 for “Through the Mill” by Dan Cryer. © 1988, 1993, 2001 by Washington Post Book World Service/ Washington Post Writers Group. All reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—Women’s Review of Books, v. 5, October, 1987 for “In Search of Equality” by Hilda Hein; v. 7, December, 1989 for “A Radical’s Odyssey” by Linda Nicholson. All rights reserved. Both reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—World and I, v. 16, October 2001; v. 17, November 2002. Copyright 2001, 2002 News World Communications, Inc. Both reproduced by permission.— World Literature Today, v. 72, Autumn 1998; v. 74, Summer, 2000; v. 76, Spring, 2002; v. 76, Winter, 2002. Copyright 1998, 2000, 2002 by the University of Oklahoma Press. All reproduced by permission of the publisher.

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Romeu, Raquel. From Climate and Literature: Reflections of Environment. Edited by Janet Perez and Wendell Aycock. Texas Tech University Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Texas Tech University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

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Gaines, Ernest, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Llosa, Mario Vargas, photograph. AP/ Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—MacKinnon, Catharine, photograph by James Keyser. Hulton Archive/ Getty Images. Reproduced by permission.—Russo, Richard, photograph by M. Spencer Green. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.

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