Genre Journal

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Staff

Carling Kaiser

David Lugo

Kyle Nairne

Faculty Advisor

Dr. Nhora Serrano

As If Her Opinion Mattered: Censorship, Gender, and Resistance in Esmeralda Santiago’s Conquistadora

Nancy Bird-Soto 1

The Bias of Visual Literacy, A New Generation and Comics in the Classroom

Sarah Bryski 19

Who is Monsieur Vénus? A Case of Authorial and Narrative Censorship in Fin de Siècle France

Elizabeth Carroll 34

Ten Years After 9/11: Iconoclasm in America and Its Cultural Dilemma

Jong Chul Choi 47

Rosario Ferré’s “The Youngest Doll”: The Use of Fantasy, from Bildung to Survival

Dinorah Cortés-Veléz 68

Sex, Violence and the Human Body: Disgust and Censorship in Visual Arts

Anja Foerschner 85

Censorship in a Totalitarian Regime: Three Women’s Stories of Creative Resistance in the Socialist Republic of Romania

Daniela Ionescu 101

From image to word: the making of Pietro Aretino’s satire in I sonetti lussoriosi (c. 1527)

Hannah Jane Lavery 117

Silence Upon Silence: The Ethics of Secrecy in Pirandello’s Right You Are (If You Think So)

Drago Momcilovic 149

Ratings Systems: The Evolution of the Entertainment Industry

Amy Patrick 163

The Penalties of Consumerism in Fight Club, A Clockwork Orange, and The Terminator: What it means to be a Modern Incarcerated Cyborg

Alexis Tsachres 177

Reviews

Miniature Men by Michael Buckley

Carling Kaiser and David Lugo 188

A King of Infinite Space by Tyler Dilts

Theresa Johnson and Kyle Nairne 190

The Power of the Pen: Translation & Censorship in Nineteenth-century Europe by Denise Merkle, Carol O’Sullivan, Luc van Doorslaer, Michaela Wolf (eds.)

Declan Murphy and Alexandra Sciarra 193

From Muses to Artists—In Wonderland: Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Erica M. Medrano 196

47^th Annual Comparative Literature Conference

Theresa Johnson, Michael Joplin, and Chris Musso 199

Executive Editor

Omar Zahzah

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Mary Sotnick

Alejandra Campoy

Layout

Mary Sotnick

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Dr. Nhora Serrano

Cover Design

Richard Mallory

Faculty Advisor

Dr. Cheryl Goldstein

Visualizing Texts, Reading Images: Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes and David B.

Nhora Lucía Serrano, Omar Zahzah 1

Contradictory Evidence Seen in the Same Photograph—A Global Icon and Particular Memories

Hannah Maischein 14

Hildegard of Bingen: Gender, Authority, and Cultural Production in Medieval Europe

Jae Jerkins 38

Trauma, Transmission, and Transition: The Role of Memory in Contemporary Bosnian Film

Sarah Babovik 52

I am the Television

Monica Holmes 74

“Loss of Familiarity, Loss of the Self”; An Overview of Yeşilçam through Kanun Namına, Gecelerin Ötesi and Suçlular Aramızda

Aysegul Kesirli 76

The Visual Culture of Slavery in the 18^th Century Halifax: “Just Imported .. Both Ran Away”

Cheryl Thompson 95

Fluorescent Algebra

Philip Dodd 136

Buscando la Sombra: How I Learned to “See” Through Mexican Funeral Rituals

Philip Madison 138

The Talking Body With No Voice

Alex Rodallec 165

L’Inconnue de la Seine: Popular Fiction, Artifact, and Affect

Liz Gomez 178

A Gender Bending Icon: Queer Anarchy in V for Vendetta

Geri Lawson 196

Las Bambilinas

Jorge Novoa Guaracao 216

Executive Editor

Omar Zahzah

Managing Editors

Mary Sotnick

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Devin O’Neill

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Illustrations

Watching Television in Dark Places—

Joseph Maldonado

Rain—Lucas Fitzsimons

Night Between Freeways’ Walls—Cristy Moore

Cover—Sheldon Joseph Gantt

Introduction 1

A Newton for Leaves of Grass

Trevor Fehrman 4

Night Between Freeway’s Walls

Max Pfeiffer 34

“no / lines or changeless shapes”: The Metaecopoetics of Ammon’s “Corson’s Inlet”

Sarah Nolan 36

I Can Eat the Sky

Justine Schneeweis 48

Illuminate Me

Caitlin Cutt 50

Honey Hunters

Adriana Campoy 67

Caught in a Trap: Female Subjectivity and Language in Assia Djebar’s So Vast the Prison

Kelly McHugh Lopes 69

His Sadness Sat on a Wall it Looked Over

Omar Zahzah 90

An Epitaph for Tristan Corbière (1845-1875)

Alexandre Rodallec Valencia 92

Art for Social Responsibility

Michael Veremans 112

Watching Television in Dark Places

Philip Dodd 134

Nandja, Tension, and the Surrealistic Orgasm

Devin O’Neill 136

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless. Failure and the Artist from Beckett to Kaufman

Jenny Long 149

The Artist at War

Jordan Smith 173

Struggling with the Almighty: Tony Kushner’s Angels in America

Dahlia Grossman-Heinze 175

Et tu, Brute? Brutus’ Possible Motivations for Killing Caesar

John Cameron 204

Pots and Pans

Crissy Van Meter 231

Plural Literacies in the Trinidad of The Mystic Masseur

Jeff Kuo 233

A Health Earthquake?

Michael Mermelstein 255

La apologia a la Guerra y a la muerte en Colombia

Andrés Felipe Manosalva Correa 268

Rain

Max Pfeiffer 277

Executive Editor

Whitney Donaldson

Managing Editors

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Layout and Design

Michaël Veremans

Art Director

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Cover Design

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Introduction

The Joy of Exile: Ovid and Russian Poets

Zara M. Torlone 1

Country

Donna Gelagotis-Lee 27

Narrative as National Allegory in Ilias Khoury’s Gate of the Sun and Susan Abulhawa’s The Scar of David

Fadwa AbdelRahman 31

Bleed

Fadi Bayaa 51

Enlightened Ambivalence: Arrival and Departure in Peter Hessler’s River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze

Leilei Chen 53

Flying Over Upstate

Gerald Locklin 71

Lacanian Mirroring in The Grave

Katherine Ness 73

Nizar Qabani’s “Bilqais”

Translated from the Arabic by Yasser Aman 97

A Picturesque Photographic Tour Through Scotland

Beth Knazook 127

Die Atlantische Kreisverschwörung von 1924 / The Atlantic Sphere Conspiracy of 1924

Michaël Veremans 161

Darvell and Aubrey’s Expedition: Death and Resurrection along the Sacred Way

Marc-Edward Carrigan 165

Snail Shoes

Alicia Adams 187

Other-Wise: À��, Proverbs, and Politics in Michelle Cliff’s No Telephone to Heaven

Linda Watts 191

Post-Mortem

Charles Harper Webb 209

Editorial Staff

Roya Ahmadina

Karina Araya

Blair Ashton

Stephanie Fields

Elizabeth Hickman

David Hook

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Managing Editor

Elizabeth Hickman

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genre Associates Spring 07

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Cover Design

Stephanie Fields

Illustration Design

Blair Ashton

Layout and Design

Claudia Zapata

Assistant Layout and Design

David Hook

President of the Associated Students of Comparative Literature and Business Coordinator

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Faculty Advisor

Elizabeth Dahab

Introduction i

Precarious Futures: Early Modern Women’s Testimonies of Death and Self

Ulrike Tancke 1

“These New Hermaphrodites”: Hybrid Gender Identities in Life is a Dream and The Life and Death of Mrs. Mary Frith

Brian Pietras 17

“A Man is for a Woman”: Gender, Performance, and Desire in Margaret Cavendish’s The Convent of Pleasure

Julie Braun 35

“Be war by me”: Fearing the Newefangelnesse of Female Autonomy in the Squire’s Tale

Kristen Lillvis 51

“Made to write ‘whore’ upon”: Othello and the Cultural Projection of Whoredom

Victoria E. Price 69

Wedding Interrupted: Women’s Political Will in The Two Noble Kinsmen

William Ferleman 83

Daughters, Defiance, and Death: Jane Lumley and Euripides’ Iphigenia

Sasha Garwood 109

“I Fear She Cannot Love at All”: Unnatural Female Sexuality in the Revenge Tragedy

Liberty Stanavage 125

Learning about Women: Proverb Usage in the Roman de Silence

Lynne Dahmen 145

“This anchoress talks a lot”: Regula and Metaphors of Female Speech in Ancrene Wisse

Katharine Wrobel 165

Transcending the Imbalance: Engendering Ethos in the Rhetoric of Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz and Christine de Pizan

Christophe Casamassima 183

Unwitting Accessories to the “Crime” of Self-Creation: The Anonymous Prefaces to The Life and Death of Mary Frith Commonly Called Moll Cutpurse

Geraldine Wagner 201

Shakespeare’s Cleopatra as Virtuous Virago

Unhae Langis 215

Thus Spoke Shahrazad: Contemporary Arab Women Recent Rewritings of The Nights

Faten I. Morsy 231

Editorial Staff

Rebecca Addicks

Raymond Duran

Mark Olague

Roxanne Robert

Contributing Editors

Jerald Adamos

Gabriel Arroyo

Laci Chiodo

Sunyo Cho

Francis De Leon

Stephanie Fousek

Aileen Gendrano

Jarod Laub

Yishyu Lo

Briah Luther

Rory Montez

Meghan Ray

Chenin Simi

Taylor Parker

Aliaksandra Razor

Faculty Advisor

Vlatka Velcic

Contemporizing Black Athena: Myth, Marginality, and the Postcolonial Appropriation of Greek Classics

Aaron Eastley, Brigham Young University 11

Hybrid Helen

Ryan Platte, University of Washington 31

“Clauserunt virides ora loquenis aquae”: Ovid, Bruegel, and Auden

Emma Boyle, California State University, Long Beach 51

Seeking the Ancient Spirit in Modern Art: A Comparative Consideration of Wassily Kandinsky, Jane Harrison and Virginia Woolf

Alison Heney, Binghamton University 62

Snatching the Ring from his Finger: The Heroine’s Mythic Journey

Valerie Frankel, San Jose State University 79

“I’ll never make a vampire, I’m just not bloodthirsty”: Vampiric Elements in Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita

Dorian Townsend, The University of New South Wales 90

Descending from Samurai: Specters of Tradition in Nikkei Peru

Jordan A. Yamaji Smith, University of California, Los Angeles 104

The Art of Storytelling: Ovid and Calvino

Marie-Anne Visoi, University of Toronto 120

Ancient Structure, Contemporary Ruins: Charles Mee, Jr.’s Orestes 2.0

Peter Campbell, Pennsylvania State University, Berks 129

The Critic as Artist and Liar: The Reuse and Abuse of Plato and Aristotle by Wilde

Kelly Comfort, Georgia Institute of Technology 144

A New Way of Adaptation: Deluzian Mannerism in Kurosawa’s Adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth

June Lam Pui-wah, The University of Hong Kong 163

The Collected Gilgamesh Episodes: Epic or Gospel?

Boak Ferris, California State University, Long Beach 172

“The Devil Made Me Do It”: The Satanic Femme Fatale and the New Eve in Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ

Beverly J. Graf, Abilene Pictures 192

I Am Your Memory: Yuyachkani’s Embodied Narrative of Gesture and Memory

Laura Dougherty, Arizona State University 213

English Translations of the Plays of Aristophanes, 1651-1800: A Review and Analysis

Philip Walsh, Brown University 223

Editorial Staff

Matt Beckner

Dev Bose

Marcos Castor

Nastaran Kherad

Jeanne Newhart

Michael Nottingham

Mark Olague

Caitlin Rademaekers

Joseph Ripley

Lisa Stasiak

Joseph Tran

Contributing Editors

Rebecca Addicks

Raha Bigdeli

Ravindar Brar

Sarah Christiansen

Matthew Hannickel

Helen Kilgallen

Dylan Klline

Roxanne Robert

Carolynn Romana

Ofelia Saenz

Thu-Thuy Tran

Layout and Design

Rebecca Addicks

Faculty Advisor

Vlatka Velcic

The Reception of the Diplomatique and His Suite, at the Court of Pekin: James Gillray and the Invention of the Macartney Embassy Kowtow Incident

Joseph Sample

Clemson University 12

Viewing the New through Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s Ansichten der Natur

Renata Schellenberg

Mount Allison University, Canada 31

The Dialogical Zone in Hannah Webster Foster’s The Coquette

Ayse Naz Bulamur

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 42

Crusoe’s Lack: J. M. Coetzee’s Foe as Response to Robinson Crusoe

Robert Colson

University of California, Irvine 60

�Ѵǰ��í��’s El Sí de las Niñas: Intertextuality of the European Theatre in Spain

Isabel Asensio-Sierra

Vanderbilt University 74

If Looks Could Kill: Fragmented Bodies in Delarivier Manley’s The Wife’s Resentment

Adriana Macias

Mills College 82

The Misfortunes of Bourgeois Values

Natalie S. Roxburgh

Rutgers University 90

Poetics and Cosmetics: Pope’s and Chatterton’s Horatian Odes

Boldizsár Fejérvári 109

Book Reviews

Gustavo Verdesio. Forgotten Conquests: Rereading New World History from the Margins.

Reviewed by Ricardo Lopez 136

Mirella Agorni. Translating Italy for the Eighteenth Century: Women, Translation and Travel Writing (1739-1797).

Reviewed by Rebecca Addicks 141

Klaus Weber. Deutsche Kaufleute im Atlantikhandel, 1680-1830.

Reviewed by Pascal H. Zandt 146

Felicity A. Nussbaum, ed. The Global Eighteenth Century.

Reviewed by Muriel Pendleton 150

Nedim Hayatı, Edebî Kişiliği ve Divan’ından Seçmeler (Nedim’s Life, Literary Identity and Selections from his Divan Poetry) by Coşkun Ak.

Reviewed by Monica Megarit 156

Thabit A. J. Abdullah. Merchants, Mamluks, and Murder: The Political Economy of Trade in Eighteenth-Century Basra.

Reviewed by Marta Bourjeili 160

P. J. Marshall. The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America c. 1750-1783.

Reviewed by Kieu My Nguyen 163

David Northrup. Africa’s Discovery of Europe: 1450-1850.

Reviewed by Justin Smith 167

Patrick Griffin. The People With No Name: Ireland’s Ulster Scots, America’s Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689-1764.

Reviewed by Jason Horton 171

Megan Vaughan. Creating the Creola Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius.

Reviewed by Jacque Johnson 175

Kathleen Wilson. The Island Race: Englishness, Empire and Gender in the Eighteenth Century.

Reviewed by Erika Maki 179

Randy J. Sparks. The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey.

Reviewed by Dave Henderson 184

H. V. Bowen. The Business of Empire: The East India Compand and Imeprial Britain, 1756-1833.

Reviewed by Daniel B. Lynch 188

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World.

Reviewed by Brittany Anderson 198

Jonathan D. Spence. La Chine imaginaire: Les chinois vus par les Occidentaux de Marco Polo à nos jours.

Reviewed by Bénédicte Ernotte 202

Editorial Staff

Nastaran Kherad

Katherine McDermott

Jeanne Newhart

Mark Olague

Amy Smoler

Contributing Editors

Mark Beckner

Dev Bose

Nancy Garcia

Jennifer Hanley

Marilyn Jones

Benjamin Mendez

Jacob Merrifield

Michael Nottingham

Caitlin Rademaekers

Joseph Ripley

Lauren Salazar

Joseph Tran

Darla Welts

Theresa Zamecnik

Yvonne Zivkovic

Layout and Design

Rebecca Addicks

Faculty Advisor

Vlatka Velcic

Merchant and Ivory’s Howard’s End (1992): How Heritage Speaks to Contemporary Political and Ideological Concerns

Chantal Cornut-Gentille D’Arc

University of Zaragoza, Spain 11

Appetite for Sin: Policing Ideological Boundaries in Chocolat

Kathleen LeBesco and Peter Naccarato

Marymount Manhattan College, New York 27

Queer Kinships in Italian Cinema

Miguel A. Malagreca

University Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 42

Symmetry, Film Structure, and Humor in Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot

Boak Ferris

California State University, Long Beach 60

The Colors Don’t Run in My Beautiful English Laundrette: Nation, Race and Thatcherism in Hanif Kureishi’s London

Bidhan Roy

California State University, Long Beach 77

The Rise of the Cat-Woman: Film Adaptations of H. G. Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau

Melissa Purdue

University of Kentucky 96

Film and Media Studies as a Paradigm for Critical Theory in the 21^st Century

Nicholas Ruiz III

Florida State University 116

Body, Technology, and Identity Politics in John Woo’s Face / Off

Agniezka Skrodzka-Bates

SUNY Stony Brook 126

Once Upon a Time in China: Tsui Hark’s Eastern Westerns

Lisa Odham Stokes and Michael Hoover

Seminole Community College, Sanford, Florida 140

A Different Theory of Relativity: Jack Arnold’s The Incredible Shrinking Man and the Horror Film Genre in the 1950s

Stefan Hautke 158

Charlotte’s Web and Juliette’s Happy Dagger: Sexual Determinism in Jean Luc Godard’s A Married Woman and Two or Three Things I Know About Her

Judith Mulcahy

CUNY Graduate Center 174

A Queer Sort of Whiteness: Circulations of Deviancy and Desire in Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, Gummo, and Boys Don’t Cry

Jeff Turner

Hamline University 189

Popular Film and Gender Equity: The Disastrous Construction of “The Feminine” in Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

C. M. Voskuil 207

The Reinvention of the Femme Fatale: Science Fiction and the Future Female in Blade Runneri

Kevin A. Wisniewski

University of Baltimore 223

England and the Beasts: Ontologically Misreading the Other in Empire Cinema

Leah Pate

Arizona State University 239

Editorial Staff

Ruben Moreno

Amy Smoler

Lance Trezona

Contributing Editors

Kathleen Fitzgerald

Nancy Garcia

Diana Guard

Zoran Iovanovici

Alicia Jimenez

Katherine McDermott

Jocelyn Medallo

Erin Nesbitt

Andrea Parise

Emily Provensal

Jamie Tyo

Faculty Advisor

Carl Fisher

Classical Visions: Imagining Rome

Infinite Commodities: William Thomas’s “Edifying” Encounter with Renaissance Rome

Brett Foster, Yale University 10

Rome’s ‘Statue Parlanti’ and the Voice of the Piazzz

Andrew Giarelli, Portland State University 39

Modern Visions: Cosmopolitan Cities

The Church, the Apartment and the Castle: Sites of Urban Possibility in Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities

Louise Hornby, University of California, Berkeley 56

The Ideology of Architecture: The Boulevard, the Cathedral of Light, and the Low Overpass

Blagovesta Momchedjikova, New York University 72

E. L. Doctorow’s New York: The Persistence of Memory in an Illusion of Modernity

Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw, University of Southern Indiana 87

Suburban Visions: Anti-Cities

Beyond Hegemony? Rewriting the Suburb in Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia

Susan Brook, Staffordshire University 103

London (Sub)Urban Visionary Satire in Will Self’s How the Dead Live

Magdalena Maczyńska, University of Lódz 120

Future Visions: Utopian / Dystopian Cities

Paris, A Futuristic Utopia

Dr. Jacqueline Dutton, University of Melbourne 136

Alphaville: A Strange Case of Urbanism and Genre

Douglas Cunningham Spenser 151

Multicultural Visions: Global Cities

High-Rise Heartlands: Singapore’s Fictional Cityscapes

Tamara Wagner, University of Singapore 166

The City as Cartesian Fantasy and Imperialist Symptom in Vikram Chandra’s Red Earth and Pouring Rain

Edward Barnaby, Yale University 183

Editorial Staff

Tyler Andrews

Alison Heney

Amy Smoler

Contributing Editors

Lisa Arnado

Kathryn Briggs

Juan Carlos Cardenas

Mary Jacot

Staci Paulus

Emily Provensal

Charlie Rose

Laurence Slater

Layout and Art Design

Daniel Downey

Amy Smoler

Faculty Advisor

Carl Fisher

The Making of an Exhibition: “¿Just Another Poster? Chicano Graphic Arts in California”

Holy Barnet-Sanchez, University of New Mexico 9

Fetishism and Abstraction, or, Is There a Good Universal?

Radoslav Borislavov, University of Syracus 22

The Wilderness, Cosmopolitanism and Wallace Stevens’ ‘Moment of Light’

Mary Dezember, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology 36

Cosmopolitan Hostility: The Critical Foundaitons of Derrida’s Response to “the Global”

Sean K. Kelly, West Texas A&M University 47

Cosmopolitanism and the ‘Austrian Idea’ in Adalbert Stifter’s Brigitta

Kelly Meyer, Washington College 63

Consuming Cosmopolitans: Martha Nussbaum and Francis Mayes get a Purchase on Italy and the World

Char Roone Miller, George Mason University 80

Love of the Fatherland and Love of Mankind: Patriotism, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in German Jewish Literature 1750-1840

Michaela Wirtz, WRTH Aachen, Germany 85

Hapsburg Cosmopolitanism as a Mode of Discourse in Mahler’s Sixth Symphony

David Malvinni, University of California, Santa Barbara 101

Leoš Janáček: Cosmopolitan

Jonathan G. Secora Pearl, University of California, Santa Barbara 120

A Romanian Wrier in Exile: Irina Grigorescu Pana’s Melbourne Sundays

Corina Anghel, University of Bucharest 128

Joseph Brodsky, a Soviet Cosmopolitan

Irina Kabanova, Saratov State University 141

Indonesian Social (In)justice: Rendra’s Poetics of Protest

Arsiyanti Ardie, University of Southern California 151

“Let’s Be Reasonable”: Justifying Multicultural Borders and Cosmopolitan Crossings

Lou Caton, Westfield State College 161

Commuter

Frank Palmisano 178

Editorial Staff

Ralph Clare

Daniel Downey

Goli Erami

Kathryn Formosa

Martin Hasso

Raige Pierson

Cindy Stanphill

Contributing Editor

Jimmie Jaimes

Layout Design

Daniel Downey

Cindy Stanphil

Faculty Advisor

Carl Fisher

Promising “Post-colonialism”: Deluze-Guattari’s “Minor Literature” and the Poetry of Arthur Yap

Irving Goh, National University of Singapore 13

Writing from Below: Ironic Distance and the Location of Translation

Christi Ann Merrill, University of Michigan 32

Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters: Rhetoricizing Hegemony and Violence in the Postcolonial Philippines

Rachel C. Riedner, George Washington University 55

Wide-Open Spaces: Locating the Hybrid Identities of the Southwest in the Works of Powell, Lummis, Cather and Silko

Jean Arnold, Pitzer College 84

The Persistence of the Flower World: The Yaqui Deer Dancer

Peter T. Markman, California State University, Long Beach 104

Azteca Dancer

Daniel Downey, California State University, Long Beach 123

Photograph: Azteca Dancer

Raige Pierson, California State University, Long Beach 124

I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem: A Rejection of Western Ideology

Cassandra Ward, California State University, Long Beach 129

Rootless

Kathryn Formosa, California State University, Long Beach 139

Critical Agendas: Postcolonial Critics and the Rewriting of Solomon Plaatje’s Mhudi

Shannon Young and Tom Henthorne, Pace University 140

Trinity—After an Arabic Myth

Aaron Bradford, California State University, Long Beach 151

Cracking India: Cultural and Religious Representations in Indo-Anglian Literature (1947 to Present)

Nadia Ahmed, University of California, Berkeley 152

Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana: A Postcolonial Reading

Virginie Magnat, University of California, San Diego / Irvine 170

The Dying Round the Holy Power—After a Brahmanist Prayer Circle

Aaron Bradford, California State University, Long Beach 179

Genus-English, Species-Other: Liminal Hybridity in The Satanic Verses

Andrew Howe, University of California, Riverside 180

Beyond the Hybrid: Notes Against Heterophilic Authoritarianism 191

Paul Allatson, Institute for Internation Studies, University of Technology, Sidney, Australia

Summer of 1904 (The Other Side of the World Fair)

Derrick A. Engoy, California State University, Long Beach 208

Exile or Opportunity?: The Plight of the Transported Felon in Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders and Colonel Jack

Brett C. McInelly, Brigham Young University 210

Suburban Foundry

Daniel Downey, California State University, Long Beach 218

Ding Q. Lê: Playing God

David Goetz, California State University, Long Beach 219

Stretching Postcolonialism: Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible and the Politics of Authenticity

Ronit Fainman-Frenkel, University of Arizona, Tucson 239

The Networks

Harold Fisher II, California State University, Long Beach 254

Photographs of Vietnam

David H. Goetz, California State University, Long Beach 257

Staff

Managing Editor

Lisa Sapra

Contributing Editors

Clint Margrave,
Jeff Shroeder, Bunkong Tuon,
and Cassandra Ward

Copy Editors

Laura S. Muñoz & Terri Shaffer Yamada

Faculty Advisor

Terri Shaffer Yamada

preface vii Lisa Sapra

essays

1 Cultural Memory in Giambattista Vico’s
Philosophy of Collectivity / Rafael Lamas
7 Spanish Democracy as Fictional Community: Towards a Weak Politics /
Alberto Medina-Dominguez
17 André Malraux’s L’espoir: Community
Innovation and Subversion /
Michelle Mielly
37 Configuration of African Communities in Ousmane Sembène’s Narratives /
Anthère Nzabatsinda
45 Seraph on the Suwanee: Zora Neale Hurston’s Critique of Boring White Folks, or Exposition of Forces that Enable White Male Supremacy? / Cassandra Ward
55 Fan Fiction Cybercommunities: Celebrity Appropriation on the Internet /
Jennifer Smith
63 The Emergence of Performance Poetry in America: The Politics of Personal Identity /

short fiction

73 Mrs. Ouk / Bunkong Tuon
76 Atlas / Rebecca Ladron de Guevara
77 Together or Separate /
Jonathan David Jones

poems

81 the spirits of havana / Gerald Locklin
83 Amid the Din / Steve Hendrix
84 Conscientious In the Eye of the Storm /
Laura S. Muñoz
86 Conscientious Objectors / Clint Margrave
87 To Phyllis Wheatley; World Weaver /
Lethia Cobbs

book review

89 Graciela Limón, Song of the Hummingbird /
Lisa Sapra

Staff

Editorial Group

Mariane Asad, Alina Coman, James Haendiges, April Ogden, Jennifer Protacio, Adam Sharp, Michael Thompson, Jamiegayle Whelan

Faculty Advisor

Terri Shaffer Yamada

Cover

Artwork by Shannon Shiang, inspired by the Sun Dance and the formation of an authentic self through courage and endurance

Graphic Design

Christi Fontenrose and Teri Shaffer Yamada

Preface

vi Mariane Asad

Poetry

1 About Us / Kathie Weir
2 Senior Picture / Charles H. Webb

Keynote Address

3 The Self as a Psychological, Literary, and Historical
Construct / Marilyn Yalom

Poetry

16 Stuck In Traffic, the Talk-Show Psychotherapist
Speaks His Mind / Charles H. Webb
18 The Sink / Catherine Minh Cao

Essays

19 The Quest in Text: Seeking Identity in Whitman’s
"Song of Myself" and Rimbaud’s A Season in Hell /
Mary Dezember
29 The Genesis of Rage: Maggie Tulliver’s Divided Self
/ Angela Marie Cybulski
39 the Influence of Clinical Depression on Mary Shelley’s Romantic Vision / Susan Anne Carlson
55 Peter Altenberg: Re-inventing the Self in Turn-of-the-Century Vienna / Andrew Barker
61 Childhood, Womanhood, Resignation in Chopin’s
The Awakening: Edna Pointellier’s Retreat from Maturity / Kathie Weir
71 The Beautiful Absurdity of (Epistemological) Invisibility in a (Mostly) Modernist Reading of Invisible Man / Matt Silva
79 The "Articulos" of Mariano José de Larra: the Martyr / Kirsten A. Thorne
87 Lost in the Woods: Discovery of Selfhood and the Quest for integration in the Fairy Tale / Jason Richards

Staff

Editor

Steve Hendrix

Associate Editors

Ted Contreras, Larry Isaacs,
Mihaela Marinescu, and Cassandra Ward

Faculty Advisor

Douglas Domingo-Forasté

Editor’s Preface 9

Essays

Madness in the Face of Silence: The Crisis of Language
In the Work of Franz Kafka and Elie Wiesel / Beth Hawkins 11

Madness and Writing in the Works of Hamsun, Fante,
and Bukowksi / Stephen Cooper 19

Embodiments of Hysteria: Emile Zola’s Thérèse Raquin /
Samedi Sage Goellner 29

Passion, Obsession, or Madness? Postmodern Reflections
On Madness in Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion /
Leslie Bruce 39

The Madman As Sage: Hamsun Enacts Nietzche’s Riddle /
Anne G. Sabo 49

Why the Fantastic Is Conditioned by Madness /
Sabine Kleine 59

Coping with Violence: Madness in the Works of
Marietou M’Baye of Senegal and Calixthe
Beyala of Cameroon / Laura Fyfe 75

The Pursuit of Being and der Todestrieb in The Passion
According to G.H. / Aaron Parrett 87

Poetry

Grace Under Pressure / Daniel Holland 97

Umma / Kristianne Lee-Yahng 98

Inspiration / Charles Webb 99

Munchausen’s Syndrome / Charles Webb 101

Book Reviews

Nerves and Narratives: A cultural History of Hysteria in
Nineteenth-Century British Prose / Ray Waters 103

Insanity as Redemption in Contemporary American Fiction:
Inmates Running The Asylum / Steve Hendrix 107

Staff

Managing Editor

Laura Warrick

Editorial Staff

Marc Aubertin, Stephanie Bauerlein, Mary Dixon, Ken Lee, and Christina Pompa

Associate Editors

Tammy Bon, Steve Hendrix,
and Eric Templeton

Faculty Advisor

Alwin Baum

Book Review

1 Hana Wirth-Nesher, City Codes / Mary Dixon

Essays

7 A Nomad in the Western Imaginary: Djelal Kadir’s
"Spectral Cities" / Kitty Millet

11 Spectral Cities / Djelal Kadir

29 De-constructing the City as Arkhe-Text: "The
Possibility of the Impossible" / Michael Colson

49 The City in Postcolonial Fiction / Uppinder Mehan

69 The "Wilderness of Civilization":
The Proletarian City and Socialist
Pastoralism in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle /
Steven Rosendale

97 Walking in the Streets of Rio: The City Between Resistance and Rendition /
Fernando de Sousa Rocha

105 The City as Geographical Madeleine: on Falling Down and Walking / Brian Morris

125 Lines in the Sand: the Defense of Suburban Turf
in LaterVictorian Literature / Lara Baker Whelan

Poetry

151 L.A. Sound Track / Charles Webb

152 Beggars / Charles Webb

154 The Pearl (For New Orleans In Winter) /
Jennifer Brantley

156 the Sunday observer (5/24/58) Ginsberg writing
home / Tom Lavazzi

158 Los Angeles, California / John Gilgun

159 Median Strip / Clarina Harriss

managing editor

Dominique Dreschler

editors

Marc Aubertin, Ken Lee, Ginger Mazzapica, Timothy Parker, Carol Rios

associate editors

Stephani Bauerlein, Son Vu

editorial assistants

James Walter Caufield, Zeina Chakchir, Michael Colson, Evelyn, Haralson, Gwynn Markle, Karen Presley, Julie Tran, Stephanie Young

graphic design

Mario Pérez Luna

business manager

Kelly McHugh

president of the associated students of comparative literature

George Verbryck

department chair

Douglas Domingo-Forasté

faculty director

Thomas Haeussler

essays

7 Warring Worlds of Words: Salman Rushdie and
The Satanic Verses / Brian Finney
24 Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Carlos Fuentes’s Aura /
Amanda Holmes
34 Defying Stasis: Tension & Cyclicality in Max Frisch’s
Homo Faber / Kelly McHugh
49 Love & Politics in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration
to the North / Angelica M. DeAngelis
58 Textual Space in Ceremony and Between Two Worlds
Frederick Luis Aldama
73 Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Conduits of Power
Antoine Wilson
85 Gifts of Being: The Binding of Self in Sir Gawain and
The Green Knight / Michael Colson

interview

103 Sandra Gilbert

poems

115 Farida Elizabeth Dahab / Tina Michelle Datsko
Andrew Demcak / Shahe Mankerian / Cassie Premo
Joan Jobe Smith / Clifton Snider / Charles Webb

review essays

125 Local Poetry: Long Beach Has Potential
James Walter Caufield
130 Rethinking Postmodernism: The Struggle to Resist
Stephenie Young
138 Picturing the Political Ethos and Illuminating the Parable /
Carol Rios
145 Under the Olive Trees: Subverting State-Sanctioned
Sex-Roles / Casey R. Williamson

book reviews

153 Sandra Gilbert, Wrongful Death & Ghost Volcano
Jacques Derrida, The Gift of Death / Lisa Glatt
Monsters and Other Lovers / William H. Gass
The Tunnel / Arthur C. Danto, Playing With the Edge:
The Photographic Achievement of Robert Mapplethorpe

Staff

Editor

Kelly M. McHugh

Managing Editor

Stephenie Young

Associate Editors

Dominique Drechsler, Ginger Mazzapica

Editorial Assistants:

Marc Aubertin, Marietta Bonaventure, James Walter Caufield, Kathleen Clariett, Kate Gillon, Susan Hanggie, Ken Lee, Carol Ríos, Dominic Szeto

5 Editor’s Note Kelly M. McHugh

13 Interview with Allen Ginsberg Thomas Sizgorich

22 The Word as Will and Idea: Dedalian Aesthetics
James Walter Caufield

41 Searching for Agency in the Spaces of Desire: Identity and
Ideology in Robery Hass’s Human Wishes
Kim Richards

50 Cultural Identity Crisis and the Japanese-Americans
Susan Hanggie

65 The Ambiguity of Three Mexican Archetypes:
La Malinche, La Virgen de Guadalupe, and La Llorona
Meredith E. Abarca

84 Walcott’s Other: Philoctete and Philoctetes
Douglas Domingo-Forasté

94 Geographic Divisions in Derek Walcott’s
"North and South"
Doris Hambuch

111 Independence and the Nation in Andrés Bello
Melissa Waldman

126 Right Makes White: Whiteness and Identity in
Ma Ma Lay’s Not Out of Hate
Tom Henthorne

141 Island of Their Own: Irish and Caribbean Women Writers
Beth Wightman

150 Les Demoiselles d’Avignon as Text: Interplay and Exploration
of Sex, Power and Masquerade
Draza Fratto O’Brien

170 Vicarage Gardens Lawrence P. Spingarn

176 Interview with John Singleton Thomas Sizgorich

183 When the Difference Becomes Too Great: Images of the Self
and Survival in a Postmodern World
Cassie Premo

Review Essays

197 The Next Stage: Six Women in Search of a Theater
Dominique Drechsler

209 The Prisonhouse of Mythology
Roland E. Bush

Poetry: Steve "Raindog" Armstrong, Marcia Cohee, Tina Michelle Datsko,
Boak Ferris, Darrell Fike, Cien Fuegos, Clarinda Harriss, Sean Moor,
Roger Ríos, Charles Ramshaw, Joan Jobe Smith, Charles Webb

EDITOR

Kate Gillon

ART EDITOR

Elyse Whittaker

ASSISTANT EDITORS

Linda Abbott

Stephanie Africano

EDITORIAL STAFF

Charles Ellik

Chris Rose

EDITOR OF LAYOUT AND PRODUCTION

Katherine M. Schmidt

L E M E N U

CHAPTER ONE ~ AVANT LE PETIT DÉJEUNER

2 The Firing of Chicken Ilie Ruby
4 Communion Denise R. Weuve
5 The Children Carolyn E. Schmidt
6 Dawn Time Ilie Ruby

CHAPTER TWO ~ MORNING MIST

10 Aroma of Toast Craig Cotter
11 Knead Scarlett Warner
12 A Wordly Abbot Lawrence F. Springarn

CHAPTER THREE ~ MEZZOGIORNO

20 Strange Appetite Tere Sievers
22 Eating Hayley R. Mitchell
24 The Neighborhood Donna Hilbert
34 Kitchen concert Kate Gillon
36 Eating Alone Charles Webb
38 Bruegel’s Nudes Joan Jobe Smith
40 Finger Food Gary Granger
42 Shopping List John Fitzgerald

CHAPTER FOUR ~ EN LA COCINA

46 Cleaning a Duck Charles Webb
48 The Recipe Lawrence F. Springarn
49 Leftover Shahe Mankerian
50 Produce Poem #2 Tanya Angell Allen
52 Beef and Barley Soup Joan Jobe Smith

CHAPTER FIVE ~ SALA DA PRANZO

56 A Dinnertime Tale Scarlett Warner
58 Elberton, Georgia Devan Cook
61 A lyric on Dahlak Restaurant Lucy Weidner

CHAPTER SIX ~ TABLE TALK

72 Transubstantiation Tere Sievers
74 Before the Taking of Toast
And Tea Christina Stough
84 Yorkshire Pudding Hayley R. Mitchell
87 Svelte Blossom Kirschenbaum
88 Thai Iced Tea Andew Demcak
90 The Mold that Molded a Town Roger A. Dix
95 Less is More, Lean Is Better Chris Callard
100 Chum Michael DiLeva
104 The Mammoth Cave Trip Devan Cook
105 Death Wish #3 Marael Johnson
106 Fasting Scarlett Warner

CHAPTER SEVEN ~ SENSE FOOD

110 Hard Boiled Eggs Charles Webb
112 Crab Finger C.H. Raymond
114 The Bottle of Wine Andrew Demcak
116 So Little Anne Davis
117 Look Yvonne Mason
118 Honey to Amber Tina Michelle Datsko
119 Comida Victor Valle
120 Tangerine Trees Sheana Ochoa
123 Untitled Alex Fletcher
124 Chile Verde Lawrence Schultz
126 Blueberries Anne Davis
127 Next Summer Joan Jobe Smith

CHAPTER EIGHT ~ NIGHT BITES

130 Meditation Occasioned by a
Midnight Snack Gerald Locklin
132 Thirst Tere Sievers
133 Leaving Islandmagee Devan Cook
134 Deberías saber mi hambre Sheana Ochoa
136 The Pomegranate Tina Michelle Datsko
138 An Answer to Everything Constance E. Howell
144 Whore Denise Weuve
146 Yum-Yum and Oy-Oy: Recent
Novels by Bette Pesetsky, Susan
Sussman, and Robert Chibka Blossom S. Kirschenbaum

ORIGINAL ART & PHOTOGRAPHY

i Harvest Elyse Whittaker
iii Tea cup Etching Elyse Whittaker
ix After Hours Rob Goodin
59 Shiva Tea Elyse Whittaker
60 Shiva Coffee Elyse Whittaker
107 The Grill Joy Kolitsky
158 Bar Scene Rob Goodin
A Bean’s Life ~ Flip Art Elyse Whittaker

Cover Art

Cookies Bobotie Robert Loveless
About the cover: Oil on Canvas 30" x 31 ½; 1992-1994.
Marie Jacobs, far better known as Cookie, is employed at a country-house-turned-hotel in the old cape city of Stellenbosch, South Africa. She is of Malay descent.

Staff

Editor

Alexandra Fletcher

Assistant Editors

Kate Gillon, Anna Lui

Editorial Staff

Linda Abbott, Betty Kwan, Christine McDonald, Phil Mosley, Mark Palmer

Layout & Production

Alexandra Fletcher

ESSAYS

10 TERRI YAMADA Multiculturalism and the American Dream
44 RAYMOND P. LACOSTE My Luncheon with Achilles
64 LINDA ALKANA Suzanne and the Canon: A Dialog with the Past
92 ROBERTA H. MARKMAN &
PETER T. MARKMAN Images of Mesoamerican Mythology

FICTION

79 MARK PALMER Crucifix on my Lifeline

POETRY

2 CHARLES WEBB Without Being a Wimp
6 DAVID PECK Nanny Bosworth
18 CLIFTON SNIDER Jesse Rama-Kali
21 STEVE MORTENSON Circus
26 TERRY THORTON Nun at the Helm of a Trawler
27 DOREN TOBBINS Santin’s Shift
30 ANDREW DEMCAK Killing the Dog
32 LAWRENCE SPINGARN Holy Water
34 CHARLES McGAUGHEY Scaling the Ivory Tower
60 JOAN JOBE SMITH Hot Tamales
63 GERALD LOCKLIN liubov popuva: painterly construction, 1920
69 GERALD LOCKLIN henri matisse: odalisque with grey trousers
70 E.D. FREEMAN Beauty in the Eyes of a Sadistic Beholder
71 TINA MICHELLE DATSKO Letter from Key Largo
85 TERRY THORTON Table for Two Co-Depenents, Please…
86 TERRY THORTON Mont Blanc
87 CHARLES WEBB In Spring a Young Man’s Fancy
Turns to Thoughts of Meaningful Relationships
89 TERRY THORTON How Impossible is the Difficult, Sexy Quadriplegic?
90 CHARLES WEBB Universal Solvent
119 M.L. LIEBLER Fish Dinner
120 TINA MICHELLE DATSKO Pink Grapefruit
124 LAWRENCE SPINGARN Descalzado
126 M.L. LIEBLER Midwest
127 MICHAEL TRAMMEL The Music of Trains
129 TIM A. CALL My Grandfather’s Box Camera
131 DARIN WATSON Ode to a Session
132 ANDREW DEMACAK Indigo Snake
135 CHARLES WEBB 1957
137 DON JACKSON Them Cat Things

ORIGINAL ART & PHOTOGRAPHY

LINDA IKEDA Cover
8 JOSEPH GIRI Three Oriental Impostors
29 DON ROGERS Hard Times
62 JOSEPH GIRI Virago’s
74 LARKIN HIGGINS A Bibliophile’s Rebellion:
A Mixed Media Essay
118 JOSEPH GIRI Tuskegee, Alabama
134 JOSEPH GIRI Is the Noise in My Head Bothering You?

Editor

Eileen D. Callinan

Editorial Staff

Aran Eisenstat

Alexandra Fletcher

William Lee Harvey III

Carolyn Jacobs

Brian Jacobs

Hayley R. Mitchell

William Shadden

Rebecca Thompson

Layout & Production

Alexandra Fletcher

Contributing Editor

Tom Burkett

Essays & Interviews

The Great Diversion: 1960s Television Drama
and the Vietnam War
Mark Kosinski, Bradford College, Massachusetts……….……….46
Televisuality as a Therapeutic Discourse –
Pee Wee’s Bourgeois Bombshelter
Text & Photos, John Caldwell,
California State University, Long Beach…………………….…..66
A World Gone Astray:
A Cultural Interpretation of Black Comedy
Gary Prebula, California State University, Long Beach………..101
La Nación Clandestina,
an interview with Jorge Sanjines
José Sánchez-H., Ph.D,
California State University, Long Beach…………………….….129

Fiction

Hail Bait in Motel 8, Kristine Sanders…………………………..10
Talk About…Pop Music, Lori Negridge Allen………………….22
Have-A-Heart Traps, Diana Azar……………..……………….35

Poetry

Spanish Gypsy, Laura Castellvi…………………………….…….6
Extramural, Gregory Van Boom…………………….……..….…8
The Radio Psychiatrist, Craig Cotter………………….…..……14
Peanuts Teacher Having an Orgasm, Brian Jacobs……..….…16
Bogart & Bacall, Lauren MacArthur………….…………..…….18
Letter to Julio, Laura Castellvi………………………………….19
She Drives Far, Kristine Sanders……………………………….21
Saturday Morning Cartoons, Hank Malone……………………27
There You Sit, Barbara Hauk……………………………………30
Liberian Revolt Sparked by Tribal Dispute,
Clarinda Harriss Raymond………………..……………….……..32
When Movies Were Real, Joan Jobe Smith…………….…..….57
Puzzle, Clifton Snider……………..……………………….…….59
You Cannot Be Killed by a Make Believe Problem,
Brian Jacobs…………………………….…………………….….61
Sorrow Arrives Like a Working Print of My
Lovers Film, Andrew Demcak……………………….……..…..62
Watching Commercials, Barbara Hauk…………….…….…….65
All My Heroes Died Celluloid Deaths,
Sebastian DeBovian……………..…………………….…………96
The Director, Lawrence P. Spingarn…………………………….97
Why Robert Wagner Married Natalie Wood,
Joan Jobe Smith………………………………………..…………98
Further Decline of Western Civilization, Charles Webb………99
Hitchcock’s Lost Notes for
"Bozo’s Accidental Revenge", Belinda Subraman…………….120
Shudder, Sebastian DeBovian……………..…………………..121
The Diamond (India), Andrew Demcak…………………..…124
News for Manuela on the Death of Bolivar,
Tina Michelle Datsko……………………………………………127
Homage to Henri Cartier-Bresson, José García………………145

Original Art/Photography

Cover Art by Kathy Flanagan
ObSCENICS, an environmental series by Donald Rogers….….…2
Untitled photo collage by Linda Ikeda……………………………20
Untitled photo by Peter Thompson…………………………..…..34
Sodomy of Imagination by José García……………………….…60
More TVs Than Toilets by José García……………………….…95

Editor

Eileen D. Callinan

Editorial Staff

Dawn M. Betush

Dren McDonald

William Shadden

Rebecca Thompson

Contributing Editors

Jim Gallagher

Candace Haddock

Margaret Vento-Wilson

Special Thanks

Dr. Roland Bush

Renatta Brunner

Dr. August Coppola

Jamie Callinan

Dr. Kay Goddard

Linda McConnell

Vera Viss

Preface by Dr. August Coppola………………………………xi
Introduction Dr. Roland Bush………………………………xiii
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Essays

Violinmaking: An Alchmical Journal by Peter Cummings…4
Phantoms of the Opera by Charles Jernigan………………..18
White Noise, White Heat: The Postmodern Turn
in Rock Music by Larry McCaffery………………………55
"Diasporic Music" An Interview with Archie Shepp
by Dr. Roland E. Bush……………………………………..92

Fiction

Spiders Web by Robert Gillett………………………………..28
The Performance by Charles Webb…………………………106
Improvisations by Michael Croft…………………………….122

Poetry

Lingo by Fred Voss……………………………………………2
Windchimes by Clarinda Harriss Lott………………………..3
Classical Indian Explanation: Music
by Belinda Subraman……………………………………..17
Rock ‘n’ Roll by M.L. Liebler………………………………..25
…And the Ladies of the Fred Astaire Fan Club
by Joan Jobe Smith………………………………………..26
As Sweet As That by Joan Jobe Smith……………………….33
War by Fred Voss…………………………………………….35
Music Lessons by Dawn Allred Viotto……………………….39
i want to be by Craig Cotter…………………………………..40
Concerted Efforts: Mainz Cathedral
by Belinda Subraman………………………………………41
O My Scheherazade by August Coppola…………………….46
I Must Rejoice by Collin Musset, trans. James Frank………..53
My Last Piano by Michael Eidenmuly……………………….54
a cry maybe by Robert Gillett…………………………………72
Herman Hesse In India by Belinda Subraman……………….73
July Bricks by Boak Ferris……………………………………74
Sonatina by Robert Gillett…………………………………….76
Dionysus Goes to School by Diana Azar……………………..79
Sound by Joe Williams III…………………………………….82
The Jazz by M.L. Liebler……………………………………..84
The Music of the Spheres by Travis DuPriest……………….85
First, Last and Only Acid Poem I Will Ever Write
by Richard Meltzer…………………………………………87
Another Man’s Country by Joe Williams III………………..89
A Popular Joke Among Musicians by Beaumont D. Italy…101
Another Popular Joke Among Musicians
by Beaumont D. Italy……………………………………..104
Jazz Police by Dren McDonald………………………………118
Studio Descending by Dren McDonald……………………..119
The Fan by Fred Voss……………………………………….139
A Song for Lester by Richard Meltzer………………………140
After A Death by Doren Robbins…………………….……..141
Cello by Robert Fabiszak…………………………………….143
Meditations on a Bass Solo by Cecil McBee
by José Garciá…………………………………………….145
Poem after a Tenor Solo by Chico Freeman
by José Garciá…………………………………………….148
Astaire by Boak Ferris……………………………………….149
JAZZ by Hank Malone……………………………………….151
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ARTISTS

Anthony Brennan, Silvia Cuilich, Shantelle Julian and Doug Knight, Vinny Meghrouni,
Isabel Rodriguex, Dawn Hope Stevens

EDITOR

Dawn M. Betush

EDITORIAL STAFF

Tina Andropoulos

Eileen D. Callinan

Mark Frisbie

Jim Gallagher, Jr.

Mike Gentilman

Patricia Dempsey Koester

Murray McNeil 3

Odie Monahan

Sandra Posey

Contributing Art Editor

Jeanne Berry

Contributing Editors

Diane Ballard

Shelley Meyer

Ivy Schild

Introduction by Charles May, California State University,
Long Beach………………………………………………..ix

Essays

Nietzsche: the Body in Truth by Thomas Haeussler
California State University, Long Beach…………………74
Tom of Finland by Karen Huck, University of Utah…………122
Eroticism and the Grotesque by Fredrick Burwick,
University of California, Los Angeles…………………..140

Fiction

Rising Action by Gerald W. Haslam………………………….12
The Babydol Murders by Eugene Robinson…………………36
Panama City by Rafael Zepeda……………………………….47
Nabokoviana Plagiantis by Gian Balsamo………………..….101
Meat Man by andy Demcak…………………………………..146

Poetry

After the Sanskrit by Steve Kowit……………………………2
Some Thoughts on Receiving a Corsage by Barbara Hauk….3
Summer Vacation by Kathleen Iddings………………………4
Musical by Arthur Madson……………………………………5
Baseball for Beginners by Murray McNeil 3…………………6
Paulette by Charles Webb…………………………………….8
A Twelve Year Old Love by Pete Albertsen…………………10
Action/Reaction by Hank Malone…………………………….20
"By Lyons" by Marta Mitrovich………………………………22
The Talk of Lovers by Deborah Harding……………………..23
Shooting Baskets by Kyle Anne Bates………………………..25
Basketball Tryouts by Kyle Ann Bates………………………26
Bloom by R. M. Angkuw………………………………………27
pervert by John Yamrus………………………………………28
The Beach by Henry A. Jimenez………………………………30
poem for rosie by Patrick McKinnon…………………………31
Sweet Gwendolyn and the Countess by Edward Field………34
Women Who Carry Knives in Their Purses
by Clarinda Harriss Lott…………………………………..41
Jaded by Patrick Combs………………………………………42
An Emmenagogue-ization of Stick People
by Craig Helmar………………………………………….44
Guy and Rita Dropped By by Fred Voss……………………45
For Donna Summer the Rock Singer Who Used
to Moan as if She Were Coming Over the Radio
Before she Got Saved and Still Believes We Work
Hard for the Money.by T.M. Goto………………………46
Recently Sexed Her by Richard Meltzer……………………..59
the playboy of the eastern world by Gerald Locklin………..60
It Doesn’t Happen Often by Charles Webb………………….61
Lying in your bathtub waiting for you I
by Joan Jobe Smith……………………………………….62
he’s got by John Yamrus………………………………………63
What It Means by Sheryl St. Germain………………………..65
The Curiosity of Marlene K. by Bill Mohr………………….67
from True Poems in False Chinese by Robt. Mehlman……..71
Zen Sex by Belinda Subraman………………………………..89
Evening Sky by Kathleen Iddings…………………………….90
Hiking by Keith A. Dodson……………………………………91
Bare Limbs by Odie Monahan………………………………..92
Ginkgo in Fall by Julian Mason………………………………93
Essences by Heidi Ziolkowski…………………………………94
In Plowboy’s Produce Market by donna Hilbert……………96
Hungry by Lisa Glatt…………………………………………97
Maggie’s in Love Again by Fred Voss………………………98
Chaos With Waterfowl by Doren Robbins…………………112
God’s Body by Henry A. Jimenez…………………………..115
The Man who Loves Books by Murray McNeil 3………….117
Rockabilly by Edward Field…………………………………118
Campfire by Lizbeth Parker…………………………………120
Do Post Machine-Aged Women Ever Have Polyester
Dreams while Lying on an Acrylic Shag Carpet
Watching TV by Patricia Dempsey Koester…………….136
I Am Weird to the New Boys by Lisa Glatt…………………137
The Things We Do Alone by Lisa Glatt…………………….139
Ambrosia by Marael Johnson………………………………..149
Baldness Abolishes comfort and Creates Anxiety
by Barbara Hauk………………………………………….150
Playing With Fire by Nancy Shiffrin……………………….153

ART

Rick Ewing, Axel Koester, Steve LaPonsie, Pat Merrill, Karen Schoubye

COVER ART

Painting by John M. Solom Photography by bill Brining

EDITOR IN CHIEF

Kathryn Parry

MANAGING EDITOR

Jenna Allee

EDITORIAL STAFF

Dawn Marie Betush

Jim Gallagher, Jr.

Murray McNeil 3

Leslie Meade

Odie Monahan

Contributing Art Editor

Rick Ewing

Special thanks to:

Jeanne Bery

Nancy Corbett

Janet Rodriguez

Michelle Yeh

Foreign Tongues by Heidi Ziolkowski………………………12
Above St. Jeannet by Julie Fay………………………………14
screams by Austin Straus……………………………………..17
Life of the Yenta by Abby Bee……………………………….18
The Growing Up Dream by Belinda Subraman………………19
Notes of the Politics of Gender in European Fairy Tales
by Cristina Bacchilega…………………………………….21
The Geology of Tiles by Deborah Harding……………………34
"It’s not the old feminism": Top Stories Press and
Post-Modern Feminism by Catherine N. Parke………35
Echoes by Kathleen Iddings…………………………………..42
Mother’s Revenge by Kathleen Iddings………………………43
The Fishing Trip by Linda Spence………………………..….44
Leaving Your Mark by Alison Stevens………………………47
My Mother’s Mouth by Penelope Moffet…………………….48
Where the Trees Grew Taller by Marilyn Johnson………….49
Mama Said There’d Be Days Like This by Alison Stevens…52
Going Home by Donna Hilbert…………………………..…..60
Good Girl by Charles Webb………………………………..…62
Rhubarb on 27th Street by Clarinda Harriss Lott………..…..63
Cold War by Donna Hilbert……………………………..……60
Narrow Beds by Laurel Ann Bogen……………………..…….65
Japanese Pearls by susan Hecht………………………….…..66
American Beauty by Kathleen Iddings………………….……68
An Old Intimacy by Gerald Haslam………………………….70
It Is Not a Flower by Murray McNeil 3………………………77
"They were sitting in his flat reading…" by Teresa Blazey..79
Our Picnic by Kathryn Parry………………………………….81
Tunnel of Love by Kathryn Parry…………………………….82
Easy Come/Easy Go by Marael Johnson………………….….83
Curiosa by Marilyn Johnson………………………………….86
A Deep Mother/Son Talk by Laurel Speer…………………..97
Woman and Love by Laura Hill………………………………98
Mother’s Day, 1987 by Heidi Ziolkowski……………………99
Letter From San Francisco by Marilyn Johnson……………100
The Paris-Hamburg Express With direct Connections to Los
Angeles by Marael Johnson……………………………104
The Housewife by Bea Bracher…………………………….…106
Of Things and People by Austin Straus………………………108
How I Knew Harold by Deborah Harding……………………109
A Woman I Know by Clarinda Harriss Lott…………………111
Loving a Pro by Hank Malone……………………………….112
All You Need Is Love by Marael Johnson……………………118
Action/Reaction by Hank Malone…………………………….119
Chickie by Laurel Speer……………………………………….120
The Woman Who Loves the Man Who Loves Books
by Murray McNeil 3……………………………………..121
A Sobering Experience by Marael Johnson………………….122
Pirates by Laurel Ann Bogen………………………………….124
Whay Else Would I Wanr Her? by Fred Voss………………125
Biker Broad by Fred Voss……………………………………126
In Praise of Spinsters by Laurel Ann Bogen…………………127
The University of Alabama’s 13th Sypmposium on
Feminism and Literary Criticism: "The Difference
Within" in Tuscaloosa by Donna Decker……………..…130
Elegy for Catherine Kaeolyi and Georgia O’Keefe
by Julie Fay……………………………………………….132
Portraits, Bostonians, Fabrixs by Ms. RL Widmann………..135
Sonnet Love Affair With Another Poet by Hank Malone…..138
a complex sentence by Charles Stetler……………………….139
Artemisia;s Response by Julie Fay…………………………..140
Writing Ourselves Into Existence by Gabrielle Dane……….141
The Citizens of Vence by Julie Fay…………………………..158

ART

Amy Ning – 61
Jenny Field – 13
David Turner – 33
Jeanne Berry – 67
Richard Ewing – 78, 85
Mary E. Pagone – 117
Stuart Rose – 129

COVER ART

Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1652/53). Florentine painter. Self-Portraitas Pittura. Oil on canvas.

Staff

Murray McNeil 3, Jennifer Allee, Craig Clevenger,
Debra McMahon, Kathryn Parry, Rick Ewing

Introduction by Sarah Spence………………………………..3
Better off Dead by Marael Johnson……………………………3
10% by Hank Malone………………………………….……9
Live Steam at 8:45 by Laurel Ann Bogen……………………10
the mailbox poem by patrick mckinnon………………….….12
May by Donna Hilbert……………………………….…….14
another; shit; poem by Murray McNeil………………….…17
A Couch at Midnight by Tony Powell………………………19
All American Soft Life Sweepstakes by Wanda Coleman..…20
Fitting In by Charles Webb…………………………………21
The Escapee by Gary Holcomb………………………………22
May 12, 1971 by Laurel Ann Bogen………………………….31
applying one’s self by Charles Stetler………………………32
Judges by Eileen Kenyon…………………………………….33
Yenney’s Grocery by Kathleen Iddings…………………..…35
Rats by Kathleen Iddings……………………………………..40
A Slice of Ivan by Jeff Cross………………………………….41
Communion by Marael Johnson……………………………..44
Dirty Movies by Ron Koertge………………………………..45
Androgyny at the Henry E. Huntington School
By Laurel Speer……………………………………………46
How Simple by Laurel Speer…………………………………47
Most Hideous Scene by Jenna Allee…………………………48
Stone Rock Lady by Wanda Coleman……………………….49
The Forbidden Dream: Locked In and Out of the
American Dream by Dr. Ora Williams…………………..53
Dream 522 by Wanda Coleman………………………………62
Cancer by Edward Field………………………………………63
I Cannot Be the Virgin by Laurel Speer……………………..66
Wedding by Victor M. Valle………………………………….67
Delfina by Victor M. Valle…………………………………….68
Groceries by Rafael Zepeda………………………………..…69
Apples by Bob Austin…………………………………………78
White House Briefing by Steve Kowit……………………….85
At the Vietnam Memorial by Heidi Ziolkowski…………….86
Old Red by Kathleen Iddings…………………………………88
27 Years of Madness by Laurel Ann Bogen……………….…90
One Day by Cati Munsee………………………………………93
The Zoo by Belinda Subraman………………………………..95
The Acidhead by Fred Voss…………………………………..96
Stolen Glances by Gerald Haslam…………………………….98
The Garbage Lover by Charles Webb……………………….103
Under the Bus Bench by Kenneth Funsten……………….….104
Born Again by Brian C. Clark……………………………..…106
The Death of Gladys Gebbermann by William Orton……..107
The Only Child by Gerald Locklin…………………………..122
Bound by the Undone by Murray McNeil……………………126
stars by patrick mckinnon…………………………………….127
The American Dream Machine by Brian C. Clark………….130

ART

Rick Ewing – 2
Will Loya – 8
Stuart Rose – 18
Amy Ning – 39
Daniel Seetman – 51
Joel Cadman – 65
Roger Mejia – 84
Bill Saylor – 97
Rick Ewing – 105
Jeffrey Grecny – 129

COVER ART
Woodcut by Pat Merrill

Editors

Murray McNeil 3
Karen V. Easton, Gretchen Giles, Jeffrey P. Grecny

Introduction: by David N. Samuelson………………………..1
Marineman by Gerald Haslam………….……………………..6
The Queue by Steve Kowit……………………………………11
After the Revolution by Charles Webb……………………….12
Given the Bird by Charles Webb ……………..……………….14
The Dancers by Lawrence P. Spingarn………………………..15
Sea Stories by Jean Selvester…………….…………….………22
Discovery by d.h. lloyd………………………………..………24
A Fairy Tale: The Golden Carp by Jean Selvester…………..27
no title by Charles Bukowski….……………………………….31
Lizards, Backs, And Shoes As they Are by Jack Grapes..….33
its fundamental by Charles Bukowski ..………………………35
Wizard by Mark McCloskey…………….…………………….36
Fraulein Mump by Mark McCloskey……………..…………..37
The Visitors by Rafael Zepeda…………………………………38
Frankenstein: by Terry P. Beh..…………………………..…..39
“It Began” by Julie Stangeland……………………………..…42
gagaku by Steve Richmond……..………………………..…..45
Marlor Passage by Austin Straus………………………..……47
Matinee by Gerald Haslam………..……………………..…….49
The Acid Fog by Gerald Locklin………………………….…..63
Lost by José Garciá……………………………………….……68
Animal Town by Nichola Manning..………………………….71
The Beaches Of Chile IX by Rául Zurita……………………..72
The Sparkling Beaches by Rául Zurita……………………….74
Collapsing Into The Future by Murray McNeil 3……….……77
Head Games by Austin Straus…………………………………80
The Panic Button by Edward Field……..……………………..84
Singing the Body Electric: A Duet (Of Sorts)
by Tony Artuso..……….……………………………………87

it’s no mystery by Charles Bukowski …………………….….98
God Goes To Studio 54 by Eric Grow………………………100
The Suicide Drill by Bruce Severy……………………….….102
The Funeral by d.h. lloyd……………….………………..….103
Homemade Movies Of World War III by Eric Grow………104
One Flesh by Julie Stangeland……………………………….107
American Bazaar by David M. Fabish………………………115

ART

Steven Essery – 5, 62, 114
Chris Holmes – 13, 99
Kirk Robertson – 32, 70, 76
Benjamin M. Ferrer – 41
Steven Essery – 62
Fred Duckworth – 83

COVER ART

Steven Essery

Staff

Jeff P. Grecny, Murray McNeil 3,
Karen V. Easton, Matt Messih, Barbara Dahl,
David Lowery

Upstream by Gerald Haslam………………………………….4
Big Foot by Wanda Coleman…………………………………11
Ode to O (d t the) by Murray McNeil 3…………………..…13
Eight is Enough by Gary Holcomb…………………………..15
My Three Sons by Gary Holcomb……………………………16
Sinatra, Sinatra by Paul Fericano…………………………….20
It’s Not Enough Elvis by Paul Fericano………………………23
Supreme Court by Lisa Joy Lappin………………………….25
arms by Eric Grow………………………….…………………34
BukowskiikswokuB Murray McNeil 3………………………35
At the Table by Austin Strauss……………………………….40
Zoo by Austin Strauss…………………………………………41
The Poetry Reading Was A Disaster by Steve Kowit…….…43
Chelsea Bookstore II by d.h. lloyd……………………………45
The Great Waldorf Astoria Caper by Gerald Haslam………48
il dulce morte (for Rocky) by Wanda Coleman………………57
Poet After Surgery by Wanda Coleman………………………59
I Never Touch My Penis by Ron Koertge…………………….61
The Funny Poem by Jack Grapes……………………………..64
Last Will by Steve Kowit…………………………………..…66
Nightmare by Nichola Manning………………………………69
dollar-fifty friend by Eric Grow………………………………72
The Man in the Goodwill Box by Bruce Severy……………..74
The Parasite Picker by Bruce Severy………………………..76
All the Days of Our Lives by Gerald Locklin………………..80
The Uses of Poetry by don Weinstock………………………..84
Man with a Problem by Charles Stetler………………………90
American Dream by Christopher M. Balogh…………………91
The Use of Rhyme to Achieve Comedy in the Musical
Comedy Lyric by Scott Giantvalley………………………98
The Year’s Work in Literary Theory and Criticism:
An Annual Review by David Peck………………………108

Art in this Issue

Kirk Robertson
Peter Carr
Kurt Benbenek
d.c. roberts
Peter Carr
Ted Blackman
Peter MacIver
Clyde San Juan
David Lowery
Gary Panter
Robin Richeson
Katherine Shaver
Ron Overmyer

Staff

Jeff Grecny, Charles Jernigan, Linda Lang,
Murray McNeil 3, Janet Rodriguez, David Ross,
Roy Shabla

In Midwinter………………….………………..……Peter Carr
In Honor of Peter Carr,
for Jeannie Bernstein……….………Ellie Cohen &Karen Litfin
Raven calls across the desert air……………………Peter Carr
Changing Landscapes………………………….….Roy Shabla
the peppertree……………………………………..Roy Shabla
Rain…………………………………………….Jane Selvester
Regeneration………………………………………Linda Lang
a field of mustard……………………………….…Nick Road
The Happenings……………………Victor Robert Hernandez
Behold……………………………………………Katie Hynes
Peace……………………………………………Joyce Brusin
After Earth……………………………………..Patty Bossert
Journey……………………………………….Alison Stevens
The Sixties……………………………………..…..d.h. lloyd
Incarna……………………………………….……Brian Doll
Fable………………………………………….…..Lori Cohen
The Movie………………………………………..Jeff Grecny
I Am A Child of Peace…………………………..David Ross
The Dress Rehearsal……………………….Murray McNeil 3
The Gate……………………………………Nichola Manning
Aboriginal Artists of Australia……………Andrew Tonkovich
Poem about Blood………………………………….Peter Carr
Birdbrain!……………………………………..Allen Ginsberg
Flags…………………………………………Nichola Manning
Concurrence………………………………….Denise Levertov
Journey Through the Zone………………….…..Robert Lyday
Nuke…………………………………………Anthony Wallace
1992 (The Last Rome)………………………….Gary Holcomb
1992 Revisited………………………………….Gary Holcomb
Room At Fort Rosecrans………………………..Shele Herbold
Killed in Action……………………………..Arnold T. Schwab
The Flamelessness of Peace…………………Arnold T. Schwab
Something In My Dreams……………………………Brian Doll
We will all die in our cars……………………….Greg Diamond
The Parlor Car…………………………………..Greg Diamond
Spinning……………………………………..…Robert DeLaura
Collective Heritage……………………………….christa cowan
Pause…………………………………………….…..planet clare
Mementoes………………………………Kathleen Gunton Deal
The war started forty years ago…………………….Steve Brown
Capitol Air……………………………………….Allen Ginsberg
Taps……………………………………………Arnold T. Schwab
Life is a Dance………………………………..Betty Rose Griffith
tossing branches……………………………….…..susan andrade
A Need……………………………………………..….Tonia Tris
Will There Be Music………………………………Jean Selvester
(ta) drum…………………………………….…Murray McNeil 3
To Those Who Might Hear…………………………..Jeff Grecny
In Memoriam John Lennon
(Mortuis Dec. 8, 1980)………………..Donald J. Weinstock
my eyes water in the morning……………………..susan andrade
Memorial…………………………………….…..Gary L. Kliewer
A time for Heroes……………………………………Chris Foster
For the New Year, 1981
(and again in 1982)………………………….Denise Levertov
Total Arrival……………………………………..….Tony Powell

Staff

General Editor

August F. Coppola

Issue Editor

Douglas A. Bergeron

Associate Editor

Kathleen Strack

Art Director

Richard Hibberd

Music Editor

Patricia Hutchison

Assistant Editors

Roland Bush, Judy Cape, Linda Caraveo, Michele Cartier, Jim Johnson, Gary Kenyon, Kassandra Meyer

7 The Counterparts/a story by A. de Swaan, Netherlands

14 The Mask/a poem by Pedro Aja Castano, Colombia, S.A.

18 The Art of Suggestion/Solarization and Haiku, article and plates by Anthony Brennan, England

26 from The Dilemma of a Ghost/a play by Christina Aidoo, Ghana

38 Lullaby for a Bride & other Poems/poetry by W.S. Rendra, Indonesia

45 from Children of War/a story by William Allen, United States

52 Poetry and Music/notes on Epitaffio: Arne Nordheim, Norway

58 Genre Cultural Profiles/Sierra Leone, Colombia, S.A.

65 Bull Under the Earth/a story by Kulwant Singh Virk, Panjab, India

72 Hard Fact/sculpture by Kosso Eloul, poetry by Hanoch Guy, Israel

76 Song for a Dead Man, Afternoon Snack/poetry by Rolando S. Tinio, and Walking Home/poem by Emmanuel Torres, Philippines

84 Marat/Sade: A Critical Survey of Reviews/article
By Richard E. Lyon, United States

94 CONTRIBUTORS

COVER & ART

Joseph Krause

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