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.... The Salt Eaters . New York: Vintage, 1992 . Bambara , Toni Cade , and Louis Massiah, dirs. and prods. Those Bones Are Not My Child . New York: Vintage, 2000 . Coover , Robert . Interview with Larry McCaffery. Anything Can Happen: Interviews with Contemporary Novelists . Ed. Tom...

... the impossible novel into the narrative as an absent presence zuitlzin the text, is the means Auster develops in order to be able to produce, precisely, a novel-the novel we are reading; and he does it again and again. The narrator of Titzzbrtktll (1999) is a pet dog whose name is Mr. Bones. Mr. Bones's...

... Hogue analyzes, Clarence Major's Reflex and Bone Structure and Toni Morrison's Jazz, are only partially effective in their postmodern critiques insofar as they remain locked within the binary structure of the Eurocentric paradigm of modernity they seek to contest. In his effort to refute...

... finds an open crypt for shelter, she unzips her jacket and lets the flowers fall to the ground: “The parchments of flowers tumble to the floor and all around her ankles. Bunches and bushes of old carnations and roses and gardenias and magnolias and baby's breath, reduced to their brittle bone stems...

... of California P , 2002 . 1 – 21 . John Bryant . The Fluid Text: A Theory of Revision and Editing for Book and Screen . Ann Arbor : U of Michigan P , 2002 . Burns Walter Noble . The Saga of Billy the Kid . New York : Doubleday , 1926 . Burton Antoinette . “Archive of Bones...

... and Bone Structure Experiment.” Black American Literature Forum 17 ( 1983 ): 120 –23. Byerman , Keith E. Fingering the Jagged Grain: Tradition and Form in Recent Black Fiction . Athens: U of Georgia P, 1985 . Davis , Kimberly Chabot . “‘Postmodern Blackness’: Toni Morrison’s Beloved...

... . The Meaning of Contemporary Realism . 1958. Trans. John Mander and Necke Mander. London: Merlin, 1963 . ———. Studies in European Realism . 1949. Trans. Edith Bone. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1964 . ———. The Theory of the Novel: A Historico-philosophical Essay on the Forms of Great Epic...

... history of the San Tomé mine: “Worked in the early days mostly by means of lashes on the backs of slaves, [the mine's] yield had been paid for in its own weight of human bones. Whole tribes of Indians had perished in the exploitation; and then the mine was abandoned, since with this primitive method...

... elegant analysis of the oscillating scales of time and hybrid mix of genres that Ondaatje uses to wrench potent national symbols, like Billy the Kid or the stone Buddhas and artifactual bones that fill Anil's Ghost , into emblems capable of linking multiple groups across the “diffuse networks of global...

... something solid” (no. 5, vn 3, nb 6, 45). But Susan's touch will resurrect only a relic, a token of death. From the “dark fluid” that welcomed Friday she dredges a few tiny bones: the finger bones of the drowned. It is when she shows these shards to Friday—the sight disturbs him, but Susan cannot “read” his...

... if not combated outright, and much theoretical work has been performed to undermine the claims to universality that "human nature" invokes. But Joseph Carroll makes no bones about his dissent from the conventional wisdom of his colleagues; the title of his recent book, Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human...

... or not-so-close to the food/nonfood border: “I was truly starving, and along the street I found a sliver of wood to chew on. That helped. Strange I hadn't thought of it before!” Asking a butcher for a bone for his dog, he begins to gnaw on it: “I grew angry, bit fiercely into the meat, ripped off a small...

... of the novel, a propitious future for the couple appears less and less likely, however, as incidents of racial tension between Black soldiers and their white commanding officers grow increasingly bitter and potentially explosive. Robert Bone, one of the few critics to devote substantial attention to the novel...

... at the bone. (6–7) Saturday is full of such passages, the language striking an easy balance between the technical and the familiar, the ominous-sounding “multi-level lumbar lamin­ ectomy” appearing next to the reference to Hyde Park. During an operation on a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl...

... effects or intensifies them remains an open question. But to wish for a more complete rapprochement with the problem of historical time and its implications for literary-historical method—a connecting of the book’s conceptual dots—is to wish only for more meat on these elegant bones. Affect...

... this dramatic turnabout in the pages of popular fiction, Levy helps us to put literary-critical meat on the bones of work by scholars such as Lawrence Birkin, who studies the emergence of the concept of reproduction in Victorian economic texts. In addition, she overturns the comnsense about anxiety...

... Achak Deng: A Novel and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go , Elliott suggests, at once dramatize and deny the ways in which existential threats are an “exceptional cataclysm for some and a daily horror for others” (136). In Jesmyn Ward's powerful novel Salvage the Bones , by contrast, this “stripped...

..., workers black with coal, soaked in sweat, who night and day tensed their muscles and felt their bones crack, to supply Nana’s pleasures. She devoured everything, like a great fire” (321–22). In both cases, the narrator’s sudden leap of consciousness seems to be propelled, that is to say justified...

..., or do African American novels of the mid-twentieth century have space for educated black men and women? This point proved the bone of contention between Yerby and Richard Wright, who Jarrett rightly sees as the dean of African American literature of the day. Must black poets write exclusively...

... on an obstinate mule, were the liveliest objects she could presume to expect; and when her eyes fell only on the butcher with his tray, a tidy old woman travelling homewards from shop with her full basket, two curs quarrelling over a dirty bone, and a string of dawdling children round the baker's little bow...