French Caribbean Lit. in Translation
Volume 29, Number 5
July-August 2008
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Nicole Simek’s “Introduction to Focus: French Caribbean Lit in Translation”
Kathleen Gyssels reviews Édouard Glissant’s The Collected Poems of Édouard Glissant
Marie-Hélène Koffi-Tessio reviews Maryse Condé’s The Story of the Cannibal Woman
Feature: Experiments in Fiction
Robert Glick reviews Frederick Mark Kramer’s Apostrophe/Parenthesis
Jacob Eichert reviews Miranda Mellis’s The Revisionist
Mark Wallace reviews Davis Schneiderman and Carlos Hernandez’s Abecedarium
Ryan Smith reviews Mike Daily’s ALARM
Feature: Contemporary Latino/a Writing
René Martinez reviews Dagoberto Gilb’s The Flowers
Christine Granados reviews ed. Margaret Sayers Peden’s Mexican Writers on Writing
Roberto Ontiveros reviews Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Book Reviews
Steven G. Kellman reviews Dominique Fabre’s The Waitress Was New
Vanessa Place reviews Nico Vassilakis’s Text Loses Time
Laurel Blossom reviews Angela Ball’s Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds
Marshall Brooks reviews James T. Farrell’s Dreaming Baseball
Peter C. Herman reviews John Milton’s The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton
Jeffrey R. Di Leo reviews Stanley Fish’s Save the World on Your Own Time
Angelo Verga reviews Sebastian Matthews’s We Generous
Kevin Mattson reviews John McGowan’s American Liberalism: An Interpretation for Our Time
Dimitrios Kalantzis reviews Margo Berdeshevsky’s But a Passage in Wilderness
Dinda L. Gorlée reviews Heath Lees’s Mallarmé and Wagner: Music and Poetic Language
Andrew S. Taylor reviews Stephan Sure’s The Book of Rude and Other Outrages: A Queer Self-Portrait
John Domini reviews Matthew Eck’s The Farther Shore
Scott Oglesby reviews David Amram’s Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat
Carol Quinn reviews Anne-Marie Cusac’s Silkie
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