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American Literature, v. 62, June, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press, Durham, NC. Reproduced by permission.—Canadian-American Slavic Studies, v. 24, Summer, 1990 for “The Languages of ‘Darling,’” by Nadya Peterson. © Copyright 1990 Charles Schlacks, Jr. and Arizona State University. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—CLA Journal, v. XX, June, 1977. Copyright, 1977 by The College Language Association. Used by permission of The College Language Association.—Commonweal, April 24, 1970. Copyright © 1970 Commonweal Publishing Co., Inc. Reproduced by permission of Commonweal Foundation.—The Massachusetts Review, v. XIX, Summer, 1978. © 1978. Reproduced from The Massachusetts Review, The Massachusetts Review, Inc. by permission.—MELUS, v. 19, Spring, 1994. Copyright, MELUS: The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 1994. Reproduced by permission.— The New York Times Book Review, June 9, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by The New York Times Company. Reproduced by permission.—Parnassus: Poetry in Review, v. 20, 1995 for “Jack Agüeros,” by Colette Inez. Copyright © 1995 Poetry in Review Foundation, NY. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The Psychoanalytic Review, v. 58, Spring, 1971. Copyright © 1971 by The National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Queen’s Quarterly, v. 93, Summer, 1986 for “The Plots of Life: The Realism of Alice Munro,” by George Woodcock. Reproduced by permission of the Literary Estate of George Woodcock.—Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women, v. III, Fall, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by The Sage Women’s Educational Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.—Southern Studies, v. XX, Summer, 1981 for “Kate Chopin and Literary Convention: ‘Désirée’s Baby,’” by Emily Toth. Reproduced by permission of the author.— Style, v. 27, Fall, 1993 for “Reality in the Modern Short Story” by Charles E. May. Copyright © Style, 1993. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—The Times Literary Supplement, no. 4322, January 31, 1986. © The Times Supplements Limited 1986. Reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission.—World Literature Written in English, v. 11, 1972. © Copyright 1972 WLWE-World Literature Written in English. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.

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Bosmajian, Hamida. From “The Rage for Order: Autobiographical Accounts of the Self in the Nightmare of History,” in Metaphors of Evil: Contemporary German Literature and the Shadow of Nazism. The University of Iowa Press, 1979. © 1979 by The University of Iowa Press. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Campbell, Ewing. From Raymond Carver: A Study of the Short Fiction. Twayne Publishers, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Twayne Publishers. All rights reserved. The Gale Group.— Carrington, Ildiko de Papp. From Controlling the Uncontrollable: The Fiction of Alice Munro. Northern Illinois University Press, 1989. © by Northern Illinois University Press. Reproduced by permission.— Erickson, Jon. From “Fairytale Features in Kate Chopin’s ‘Désirée’s Baby,’” in Modes of Narrative: Approaches to American, Canadian and British Fiction. Edited by Reingard M. Nischik and Barbara Korte. Königshausen & Neumann, 1990. © Verlag Dr. Johannes Königshausen and Dr. Thomas Neumann, Würzburg 1990. Reproduced by permission.—Evdokimova, Svetlana . From Reading Chekhov’s Text. Northwestern University Press, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Northwestern University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.— Kott, Jan. From “Introduction,” in This Way for the Gas Ladies and Gentlemen, and Other Short Stories. Translated by Barbara Vedder. Penguin Books, 1976. Copyright © Jan Kott, 1976; copyright © 1959 by Maria Borowski; translation copyright © 1967 by Penguin Books Ltd. Reproduced by permission of Viking Penguin Inc., a division of Penguin Putnam Inc.—Meyer, Adam. From Twayne’s United States Authors. G. K. Hall & Company, 1995. The Gale Group.—Ojo-Ade, Femi. From “Of Human Trials and Triumphs: Bessie Head’s Collection of Treasures,” in The Tragic Life: Bessie Head and Literature in South Africa. Edited by Cecil Abrahams. Africa World Press, Inc. 1990. © Africa World Press, Inc., 1990.—Poggioli, Renato. From The Phoenix and the Spider. Harvard University Press, 1957. © 1957 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission Harvard University Press.—Richman, Sidney. From “The Stories” in Bernard Malamud. Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1966. Copyright © 1966 by Twayne Publishers, Inc. The Gale Group.—Trilling, Lionel. From “The Sailor-Boy’s Tale,” in Isak Dinesen: Critical Views. Edited by Olga Anastasia Pelensky. Ohio University Press, 1993. © 1993 by the Ohio University Press. Reproduced by permission of The Wylie Agency, Inc.—Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. From “The Fiction of Limits: ‘Désirée’s Baby,’” in Modern Critical Views: Kate Chopin. Edited by Harold Bloom. Chelsea House Publishers, 1987. © 1987 by Chelsea House Publishers, a division of Chelsea House Educational Communications, Inc.

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Achebe, Chinua, photograph by Jerry Bauer. © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.—Atwood, Margaret, photograph by Jerry Bauer. © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.—Borowski, Tadeusz, illustration by Peter Ruller.—Boyle, Kay, photograph. New York World-Telegram, Sun Collection, Prints and Photographs Division. The Library of Congress.—Boyle, T. Coraghessan, photograph by Jim Cooper. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Carver, Raymond, photograph by Jerry Bauer. © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.— Chekhov, Anton, photograph. The Library of Congress.—Chekhov, Anton (seated in carved Renaissance armchair), 1901, photograph. From Konstantin Stanislavsky: Selected Works, compiled by Oksana Korneva. Raduga Publishers, Moscow, 1984.—Chopin, Kate, photograph. The Library of Congress.—Cisneros, Sandra, 1991, photograph by Dana Tynan. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Crowds celebrating cease- fire from Nigerian Civil War, 1970, photograph. © Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission.— Dinesen, Isak, 1957, photograph. Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Ellison, Harlan, photograph by Christer Akerberg. Reproduced by permission of Harlan Ellison.—Head, Bessie, photograph. Reproduced by the kind permission of the Estate of Bessie Head.—Malamud, Bernard, photograph. Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.— Men sitting at a sidewalk table, playing dominoes , photograph. © David Turnley/CorbisA Bettmann. Reproduced by permission.—Munro, Alice , photograph by Jerry Bauer. © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.—Paz, Octavio, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.— Rear side of a gas chamber with furnace for making carbon monoxide on exterior, after 1944, Majdanek, Lublin, Poland, photograph. National Museum in Majdanek/USHMM Photo Archives. Reproduced by permission.—“Virgin of Guadalupe,” painting by Juan de Villegas. Arte Publico Press. Reproduced by permission.