CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
VOL. 40, NO. 2, SUMMER 1999


CONTENTS


MALIN PEREIRA 183
An Interview with Rita Dove


LEE SPINKS 214
Jefferson at the Millennial Gates:
History and Apocalypse in the Fiction of Steve Erickson

THOMAS PEYSER 240
How Global ls lt:
Walter Abish and the Fiction of Globalization

AXEL NISSEN 263
Form Matters: Toni Morrisons Sula and the Ethics of Narrative

BETHANY HICOK 286
Elizabeth Bishop's "Queer Birds":
Vassar, Con Spirito, and the Romance of Female Community

WALTER KALAIDJIAN 311
Nuclear Criticism


HENRY HART 319
Ritualists and Mythologists


CONTRIBUTORS 327

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CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
VOL. 40, NO. 1 , SPRING 1999


CONTENTS


BONNIE LYONS 1
An Interview with August Wilson

JOSHUA D. ESTY 22
Excremental Postcolonialism

JENNIFER DRAKE 60
Looting American Culture:
Bharati Mukherjee's Immigrant Narratives

DOUGLAS MALCOLM 85
"Jazz America": Jazz and African American Culture
in Jack Kerouac's On the Road

KATHRYN HUME 111
William S. Burroughs's Phantasmic Geography



BRUCE BURGETT 136
The Public Sphere—Present Tense

THOMAS FOSTER 144
The Rhetoric of Cyberspace: Ideology or Utopia?

AMY J. ELIAS 161
And the Beat Goes On:
Defining Postmodernism and Its Other

CONTRIBUTORS 181