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The American Scholar, v. 45, Winter, 1975- 76. Copyright © 1975-76 by the United Chapters of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Reproduced by permission of the publishers.—Black American Literature Forum, currently African American Review, v. 18, Fall, 1984 for ‘‘Black Brutes and Mulatto Saints: The Racial Hierarchy of Stein’s ‘Melanctha’’’ by Milton A. Cohen; v. 18, Fall, 1984 for ‘‘The Individual and the Community in Two Short Stories by Ernest J. Gaines’’ by John W. Roberts. Copyright © 1984 Indiana State University. Both reproduced by permission of Indiana State University and the respective authors.—CLA Journal, v. XIV, March, 1971; v. XXXIV, June, 1991. Copyright © 1971, 1991 by The College Language Association. Both used by permission of The College Language Association.—College Literature, v. XVI, 1989; v. 23, October, 1996. Copyright © 1989, 1996 by West Chester University. Both reproduced by permission.— Critical Inquiry, v. 19, Spring, 1993 for ‘‘Black Writing, White Reading: Race and the Politics of Feminist Interpretation’’ by Elizabeth Abel. Copyright © 1993 by The University of Chicago. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Critique, v. XXXVI, Fall, 1994. 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.—The Faulkner Journal, v. VI, n. 2, Spring, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by the University of Akron. Reproduced by permission of the University of Central Florida and the author.—The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, v. XXIV, 1989 for ‘‘Myth, Exile, and the Female Condition: Bessie Head’s ‘The Collector of Treasures’’’ by Sara Chetin. Copyright by the author. Reproduced with the kind permission of Bowker-Saur, a part of Reed Business Information Ltd.—Short Story, v. 5, Spring, 1997. Reproduced by permission.—Slavic and East-European Journal, v. 5, Winter, 1961. © 1977 by AATSEEL of the U.S., Inc. Reproduced by permission.—The SouthA ern Literary Journal, v. 19, Fall, 1986. Copyright 1986 by the Department of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Reproduced by permission.— The Southern Quarterly, v. 26, Spring, 1988. Copyright © 1988 by the University of Southern Mississippi. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in Canadian Literature, v. 15, 1990 for ‘‘Penning in the Bodies: The Construction of Gendered Subjects in Alice Munro’s ’Boys and Girls’’’ by Marlene Goldman. Copyright by the author. Reproduced by permission of the editors.—Studies in Short Fiction, v. V, Winter, 1968; v. X, Fall, 1973; v. 17, Fall, 1980; v. 27, Spring, 1990; v. 31, Winter, 1994. Copyright 1968, 1973, 1980, 1990, 1994 by Newberry College. All reproduced by permission.— Studies in the Novel, v. III, Summer, 1971. Copyright 1971 by North Texas State University. Reproduced by permission.

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Blackwell, Louise. From ‘‘Jean Toomer’s ‘Cane’ and Biblical Myth’’ in Jean Toomer: A Critical Evaluation. Edited by Therman B. O’Daniel. Howard University Press, 1988. Copyright © 1988 by the College Language Association. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The College Language Association.—Cook, Richard M. From Carson McCullers. Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1975. Copyright © 1975 by Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., Inc. Reproduced by permission.— Eldridge, Richard. From ‘‘The Unifying Images in Part One of Jean Toomer’s ‘Cane’’’ in Jean Toomer: A Critical Evaluation. Edited by Therman B. O’Daniel. Howard University Press, 1988. Copyright © 1988 by the College Language Association. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The College Language Association.—Ferguson, Moira. From Jamaica Kincaid: Where the Land Meets the Body. University Press of Virginia, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. Reproduced by permission of the University Press of Virginia.—Festa, Conrad. From Vonnegut in America: An Introduction to the Life and Work of Kurt Vonnegut. Edited by Jerome Klinkowitz and Donald L. Lawler. Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1977. Copyright © 1977 by Jerome Klinkowitz and Donald L. Lawler. Reprinted by permission of Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, a division of Bantam Double Dell Publishing Group, Inc.—Mangum, Bryant. From ‘‘Jamaica Kincaid’’ in Fifty Caribbean Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Edited by Daryl Cumber Dance. Greenwood Press, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by Daaryl Cumber Dance. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, CT.— Mathy, Francis. From Shiga Naoya. Twayne, 1974. Copyright © 1974 by Twayne Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the author.—Rao, V. Panduranga. From ‘‘The Craftmanship of R. K. Narayan’’ in Indian Writing in English. Edited by Ramesh Mohan. Orient Longman, 1978. © 1978 Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad. Reproduced by permission.—Smith, Virginia Llewellyn. From Anton Chekhov and the Lady with the Dog. Oxford University Press, London, 1973. © Oxford University Press 1973. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Sutherland, Donald. From Gertrude Stein: A Biography of Her Work. Yale University Press, 1951. Copyright, 1951, by Yale University Press. Renewed 1979 by Donald Sutherland. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Wasiolek, Edward. From Tolstoy’s Major Fiction. University of Chicago Press, 1978. Reproduced by permission of The University of Chicago Press and the author.— Wood, Karen and Charles. From The Vonnegut Statement. Edited by Jerome Klinkowitz and John Somer. Dell Publishing Co., 1973. Copyright © 1973 by Jerome Klinkowitz and John Somer. Reprinted by permission of Dell Publishing Co., a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.

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Bowen, Elizabeth, photograph. The Library of Congress.—Celebration in African village, photograph. Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.— Chekhov, Anton, photograph. The Library of Congress.—Cliff Moher along the Irish Coastline, photograph by Daniel L. Gore. (c) Daniel L. Gore. Reproduced by permission.—Collins, Michael, photograph. New York Times Co./Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Cotton gin, photograph. Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission.—ERA Rally, (‘‘All We Want Is Equal Rights. . . ’’), photograph. Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Faulkner, William, photograph by Carl Van Vechten. The Library of Congress.—Flapper defying Prohibition, New Year’s Eve, 1925, photograph. Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Flea Market (Tolkutshka) at Nikolskie Gates, Moscow, Russian Empire, 1890, photograph. Austrian Archives/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—Fox cubs in cage at Fox Farm, Sireniki, Chukotka Peninsula, Russia, July, 1993, photograph by Pat O’Hara. Pat O’Hara/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—Gafni, Miklos, Carnegie Hall, 1950-51, New York, photograph. Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Gaines, Ernest, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced with permission.—‘‘Gertrude Stein,’’ painting by Pablo Picasso. © 1998 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Stein, 1946. Reproduced by permission.— Glamourous woman in circus knife throwing act, photograph. Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Head, Bessie, photograph. Reproduced by the kind permission of the Estate of Bessie Head.—Kinkaid, Jamaica, photograph. © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.—Linden, Natchez, Mississippi, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—McCullers, Carson, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Mishima, Yukio, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Morrison, Toni, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Munro, Alice, photograph. © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.—Narayan, R.K., photograph. The Library of Congress.—O’Brien, Tim, photograph. © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.—O’Connor, Frank, photograph. Bord Failte Eireann (The Irish Tourist Board). Reproduced by permission.— O’Flaherty, Liam, photograph. UPI/Bettmann Newsphotos. Reproduced by permission.—Parker, Dorothy, c. 1939, photograph. The Library of Congress.— Police Watch as Black children bused from Roxbury section of Boston arrive at South Boston High School, January 8, 1975, Boston, MA, photograph. Corbis/Bettmann. Reproduced by permission.— Policeman prodding sleeping homeless man, Grand Central Station, 1987, New York, photograph by Angel Franco. New York Times Co./ Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.— Rural Indian village (huts and mosque), 1848, Sheebpore, India, lithograph by Philip DeBay. Historical Picture Archive/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.— Shiga Naoya, photograph by Setsuzo Katayama.—St. Paul’s Cathederal surrounded by smoke, photograph. UPI/ Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission.—Stein, Gertrude, photograph by Carl Van Vechten. The Library of Congress.— Tolstoy, Leo, 1897, photograph. The Library of Congress.—Toomer, Jean with Margery Latimer, photograph. The Bettmann Archive/Newsphotos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—U.S. Marine patrol embassy grounds perimeter, 1996, Liberia, photograph. Reuters/Corinne Dufka/Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Unidentified African American students at Woolworth’s Lunch Counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, February, 1960, photograph by Jack Moe. Corbis/Jack Moe. Reproduced by permission.—View of Antigua, photograph by Max Hunn. Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—View of Moscow, Summer, 1912, photograph by Thomas H. Hartshorne. Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.— Vonnegut, Kurt, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.