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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 SSC. Every effort has been made to trace copyright, but if omissions have been made, please let us know.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN SSC, VOLUME 67, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

Black American Literature Forum, v. 22, Summer, 1988. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.— Cahiers du Centre d’Etudes Irlandaises, v. 2, 1977. Copyright 1977 by Presses Universitaries de Rennes. Reproduced by permission.—Callaloo, v. 6, Spring, 1983. Copyright 1983 by Mary Nelson Waniek. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The Conradian, v. 12, 1987; v. 21, Autumn, 1996; v. 23, Autumn, 1998; v. 27, Spring, 2002. Copyright 1987, 1996, 1998, 2002 by Editions Rodopi, B. V. Reproduced by permission.—Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies, v. XVIII, 1986; v. 23, 1991; v. 31, Spring, 1999; v. 32, Spring, 2000; v. 32, Fall, 2000; v. 34, Fall, 2002. Copyright © 1986, 1991, 1999, 2000, 2002 by the Textual Studies Institute, Department of English, Texas Tech University. Reproduced by permission.—Eire-Ireland, v. 12, 1977. Copyright © 1977 by the Irish American Cultural Institute. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—English Language Notes, v. 33, June, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Regents of the University of Colorado. Reproduced by permission.—The Hollins Critic, v. XXXVIII, June, 2001. Copyright 2001 by Hollins College. Reproduced by permission.—Irish University Review, v. 9, Autumn, 1979. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of Black Studies, v. 1, March, 1971. Copyright © 1971 by Journal of Black Studies. Reproduced by permission of Sage Publications, Inc.—The Journal of Narrative Technique, v. 17, Winter, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by The Journal of Narrative Technique. Reproduced by permission.—Journal X, v. 6, Autumn, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by the University of Mississippi. Reproduced by permission.—Literature/Film Quarterly, v. 29, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by Salisbury State College. Reproduced by permission.—MaComere, v. 3, 2000. Copyright 2000 by Jacqueline Brice-Finch. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Fiction Studies, v. 24, 1978; v. 44, Fall, 1998. Copyright © 1978, 1998 by Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN 47907. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Johns Hopkins University.—Mosaic, v. 12, 1979. Copyright © Mosaic 1979. Acknowledgment of previous publication is herewith made.— Studies in Short Fiction, v. 25, Winter, 1988; v. 31, Fall, 1994; v. 32, Spring, 1995; v. 33, Winter, 1996; v. 34, Winter, 1997. Copyright 1988, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 by Newberry College. Reproduced by permission.—Twentieth Century Literature, v. 42, Winter, 1996. Copyright 1996 by Hofstra University Press. Reproduced by permission.—West Coast Line, vol. 31, Spring-Summer, 1997. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN SSC, VOLUME 67, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Billy, Ted. From “The Short Fiction: ‘Tales of Unrest’ (1898), ‘A Set of Six’ (1908), ‘Twixt Land and Sea’ (1912), ‘Within the Tides’ (1915), and ‘Tales of Hearsay’ (1925),” in A Joseph Conrad Companion. Edited by Leonard Orr and Ted Billy. Copyright © 1999 by Leonard Orr and Ted Billy. Reproduced by permission of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, CT.—Dunleavy, Janet Egleson. From “Mary Lavin, Elizabeth Bowen, and a New Generation: The Irish Short Story at Midcentury,” in The Irish Short Story: A Critical History. Edited by James F. Kilroy. Twayne Publishers, 1984. Copyright © 1984 by G.K. Hall & Company. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Gale Group.—Mahlke, Regina. From “Mary Lavin’s ‘The Patriot Son’ and ‘The Face of Hate,’” in Studies in Anglo-Irish Literature. Edited by Heinz Kosok. Bouvier Verlag Herbert Grundmann, 1982. Copyright © 1982 by Bouvier Verlag Herbert Grundmann. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Mullen, Bill. From Ethnicity and the American Short Story. Garland Publishing, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Julie Brown. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Price, Kenneth M. From “Charles Chesnutt, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Intersection of African-American Fiction and Elite Culture,” in Periodical Literature in Nineteenth-Century America. Edited by Kenneth M. Price and Susan Belasco Smith. University Press of Virginia, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission of the University of Virginia Press.—Rowell, Charles H. From an introduction to Ancestral House: The Black

Short Story in the Americas and Europe. Edited by Charles H. Rowell. Westview Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Westview Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission of Westview Press, a member of Perseus Books, L.L.C. conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.—Stape, J.H. From “Conrad’s ‘Unreal City’: Singapore in ‘The End of the Tether,’” in Conrad’s Cities: Essays for Hans van Marle. Edited by Gene M. Moore. Rodopi, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Editions Rodopi B.V. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Sturgess, Charlotte. From “Dionne Brand: Writing the Margins,” in Caribbean Women Writers. Edited by Mary Conde and Thorunn Lonsdale. St. Martin’s Press, Inc., 1999. Copyright © 1999 by Macmillan Press Ltd. Selection and editorial matter copyright © 1999 by Mary Conde and Thorunn Lonsdale. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Welsh, Sarah Lawson. From “Pauline Melville’s Shape-Shifting Fictions,” in Caribbean Women Writers. Edited by Mary Conde and Thorunn Lonsdale. St. Martin’s Press, Inc., 1999. Copyright © 1999 by Macmillan Press Ltd. Selection and editorial matter copyright © 1999 by Mary Conde and Thorunn Lonsdale. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

PHOTOGRAPHS APPEARING IN SSC, VOLUME 67, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

Altar of Santeria Cult, photograph. © Daniel Laine/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—Conrad, Joseph, photograph. The Library of Congress.—Slave ship stowage layout, line drawing. The Library of Congress.

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