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American Literature, v. 70, no. 2, June, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press, Durham, NC. Reproduced by permission.—Bridges: An African Journal of English Studies, no. 5, September, 1993 for “Writing African Oral Literature: A Reading of Okot p’Bitek’s Song of Lawino” by Nkem Okoh. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Callaloo, no. 27, spring, 1986. Copyright © The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Christian Science Monitor, v. 39, November 18, 1947. Copyright © 1947, renewed 1974 The Christian Science Publishing Society. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission from Christian Science Monitor.—College Literature, v. 27, no. 3, fall, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by West Chester University. Reproduced by permission.—Contemporary Literature, v. 28, summer, 1987. Copyright © 1987 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Connecticut Review, v. 11, summer, 1989 for “Language, Gender, and Society in The House of Mirth” by Louise

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Heron, G.A. From the introduction to Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol. East African Publishing House, 1972. Copyright © Introduction, East African Publishing House 1972. Reproduced by permission.—Ngara, Emmanuel. From Ideology and Form in African Poetry: Implications for Communication. James Currey, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by Emmanuel Ngara. Reproduced by permission.—Ofuani, Ogo A. From “Lexical Cohesion in Okot p’Bitek’s A Song of Prisoner,”in The Language of African Literature. Edited by Edmund L. Epstein. African World Press, Inc., 1998. Reproduced by permission.— Okumu, Charles. From “Towards an Appraisal of Criticism on Okot p’Bitek’s Poetry,” in Uganda: The Cultural Landscape. Edited by Eckhard Breitinger. Fountain Publishers Ltd., 1999. Copyright © 1999 Eckhard Breitinger and individual authors. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Ramazani, Jahan. From The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English. The University of Chicago Press, 2001. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2001 by The University of Chicago. Reproduced by permission.—Waid, Candace. From “Building The House of Mirth,” in Biographies of Books: The Compositional Histories of Notable American Writings. Edited by James Barbour and Tom Quirk. University of Missouri Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by The Curators of the University of Missouri. Reproduced by permission of the University of Missouri Press.—Yeazell, Ruth Bernard. From “The Conspicuous Wasting of Lily Bart,” in New Essays on The House of Mirth. Edited by Deborah Esch. Cambridge University Press, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by Cambridge University Press. Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press.

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