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COPYRIGHTED EXCERPTS IN SSC, VOLUME 45, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Algoo-Baksh, Stella. From Austin C. Clarke: A Biography. University of the West Indies Press, 1994. Copyright © 1984 by University of the West Indies Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Benson, Brian Joseph and Mabel Mayle Dillard. From Jean Toomer. Twayne Publishers, 1980. Copyright © 1980 by Twayne Publishers. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Bone, Robert. From Down Home: Origins of the Afro-American Short Story. Columbia University Press, 1988. Copyright © Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Brown, Lloyd. From El Dorado and Paradise: Canada and the Caribbean in Austin Clarke. University of Western Ontario Press, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by University of Western Ontario Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Cain, T.

G. S. From Tolstoy. Elek Books Ltd., 1977. Copyright © 1977 by Elek Books Ltd. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Callahan, John F. From In the African-American Grain: The Pursuit of Voice in Twentieth-Century Black Fiction. University of Illinois Press, 1988. Copyright © 1988 by University of Illinois Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Coleman, Dan. From Masculine Migrations: Reading the Postcolonial Male in ‘New Canadian’ Narratives. University of Toronto Press, 1998. Copyright © 1998 University of Toronto Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Evans, Elizabeth. From Doris Betts. Twayne Publishers, 1997. Copyright © 1997 byTwayne Publishers. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Gustafson, Richard F. From Leo Tolstoy, Resident and Stranger: A Study in Fiction and Theology. Princeton University Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Princeton University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Harrison, Russell. From Against the American Dream: Essays on Charles Bukowski. Black Sparrow Press, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by Black Sparrow Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.— Heim, Micheal Henry. From “Master and Man: Three Deaths Redivivus,” in American Contributions to the Eighth International Congress of Slavists, Volume 2: Literature. Edited by Victor Terras. Slavica Publishers, 1978. Copyright © 1978 by Slavica Publishers. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Jones, Robert B. From Jean Toomer and the Prison-House of Thought: A Phenomenology of the Spirit. The University of Massachusetts Press, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by The University of Massachusetts Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Jung, Udo O. H. From The Black American Short Story in the 20th Century. B. R. Gruner Publishing Co., 1977. Copyright © 1977 by B. R. Gruner Publishing Co. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Lindberg, Kathryne V. From “Raising Cane on the Theoretical Plane: Jean Toomer’s Racial Personae,” in Cultural Difference & the Literary Text: Pluralism & the Limits of Authenticity in North American Literatures. Edited by Winfried Siemerling & Katrin Schwenk. University of Iowa Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by University of Iowa Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—McKay, Nellie Y. From Jean Toomer, Artist: A Study of His Literary Life and Work, 1894-1936. University of North Carolina Press, 1984. Copyright © 1984 by University of North Carolina Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —Simmons, Ernest J. From Introduction to Tolstoy’s Writings. The University of Chicago Press, 1968. Copyright © 1968 by The University of Chicago Press. Reproduced by permission.

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Betts, Doris, photograph. © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.—Bukowski, Charles, photograph. Black Sparrow Press. Reproduced by permission.—Clarke, Austin, photograph by John Reeves. Reproduced by permission.—Tolstoy, Leo, photograph. The Library of Congress.—Toomer, Jean, with Margery Latimer, photograph. The Bettmann Archive/ Newsphotos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.

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