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...BEVERLY LYON CLARK ROBYN R. WARHOL, Having a Good Cry: Effeminate Feelings and Pop-Culture Forms (Columbus: The Ohio State UP, 2003), pp. 148, $22.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2004 2004 Why Not Cry Me a River? ROBYN R. WARHOL, Having a Good Cry: Effeminate...

... of land west of the Mississippi River. Fraught with the tensions of territorial expansion, the “empty empire” of the prairie is an exemplary site of land speculation at the heart of American frontierism. The Prairie wrestles with what it means to capture this new land by introducing a figure...

... and resistance. The meaning of such figures in any historical situation is how time occurs and how it is experienced. Time's river flows through every narrati~e.~But what if, in re-reading the temporality of nineteenth-century novels, we were to rely in a focused way upon the thematics...

... ungraspable totality of what appear to be a series of disjointed fates and storylines. 15 The novel's foregrounding of its own narrativization, its “telling of the story” (20), is figured on both the opening pages of River and also in the last lines of the trilogy at the close of Flood...

...) was already on a trajectory toward industrialization. Nkrumah, who would later coin the term neocolonialism to name the exploitation of formerly colonized nations by nominally non-state actors like corporations and international agencies, took an early interest in plans to dam the Volta River to generate...

... , S.A. Journal of an Expedition Up the Niger and Tshadda Rivers . 1855. 2nd ed. London: Frank Cass, 1970 . Crowther , S.A. Journals of the Rev. James Frederick Schön and Mr. Samuel Crowther . 1842. 2nd ed. London: Frank Cass, 1970 . Crowther , S.A. “The Narrative of Samuel...

... to bring into focus. Careful examinations of Gayl Jones’s Corregidora, Ishmael Reed’s Flight to Canada, Charles Johnson’s Oxherding Tale and Middle Passage, Sherley Anne Wil- liams’s Dessa Rose, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River, John Edgar Wideman’s The Cattle Killing...

...- tion has always required such involvement and King embraces that demand. Inclusiveness is another strength of Border Crossings. Sections on King's photography, his work as a writer and sometime actor in television and in a movie based on his first novel Medicine River, his children's book...

... with the other children from the reservation. In a moment of absolute lucidity, Little sud- denly leaps and attempts to catch, by hand, a fish he has spotted in the river. Once in the stream, Little sinks to “the bottom of the river” with “his legs and arms wrapped around” the “northern pike” (112–13...

... metaphor in which “time is a river” offers this dichotomy. If time is a river that sweeps me along, I seem to be working with a notion of the moving now in which the riverbanks provide the timeline, and if time is a river that flows past as I stand in or beside it, the now functions as a fixed...

... with these potentialities in mind” (59–60). The first chapter comes with readings of other architectural models for Wharton's fictional libraries as well. Her aunt's neighbor's estate in the Hudson River Valley, Liming convincingly argues, is the likely inspiration for the Willows in Hudson River Bracketed (1929); its...

...: Recognition and the Frontier in Kate Grenville’s The Secret River .” Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature 8 ( 2008 ): 94 – 104 . Hodge Bob , and Mishra Vijay . The Dark Side of the Dream: Australian Literature and the Postcolonial Mind . Sydney : Allen...

... . Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1999 . Crowther , S. A. (Bishop) . The River Niger. A Paper Read Before the Royal Geographical Society , June 11 , 1877 . London: Church Missionary House, 1877 . DeKock , Leon . “Textual Capture in the Civilising Mission: Moffat, Livingstone, and the Case...

..., the extinction of work, and death? After all, near the beginning of his journey up- river, Marlow will encounter a set of figures who tread the line between work and extinction, but this time in a situation much less whimsical than that framed in the "Author's Note": They were dying slowly...

...” that Miller importantly discusses ( Extraction 44, 46 ). The town's shipping industry also comes to a standstill. In contrast to the novel's opening tableau, “no boats were to be seen moving on the river—such as had been laid hands on were employed in the flooded streets” (Eliot, Mill 420). In this moment...

... Literatures 21 ( 1990 ): 33 -48. Manto , Saadat Hasan . Mottled Dawn: Fifty Sketches and Stories of Partition . Trans. Khalid Hassan. New Delhi: Penguin, 1997 . Mo , Timothy . The Redundancy of Courage . London: Vintage, 1991 . Naipaul , V. S. A Bend in the River . 1979...

... geographies, other languages and cultures" (3). Her opening chapter on Thoreau offers a test case. She imagines Thoreau reading the Bhagavad Gita in Concord, following the writing of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. He dissents from Krishna's advocacy of war, siding instead...

.... Focus- ing on Phillips’s 2002 essay collection, A New World Order, and his novels Cambridge (1991) and Crossing the River (1995), Goyal argues that Phillips uses romance “to freeze time”; his Africa, she concludes, is “static and mythic” (208). Most troubling for Goyal, Cambridge “blurs” genre...

... not get me wrong: it was not a place I would have gone to willingly. I simply seized and built on the positive. The novel was a departure from my previous novels, from Weep Not, Child , The River Between , and A Grain of Wheat to Petals of Blood . It is in gĩkũyũ and written from a liminal space...

... readings of The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium and Discovery (1995) and the three volumes comprising the Ibis trilogy: Sea of Poppies (2008) , River of Smoke (2011) , and Flood of Fire (2015) . This curious tension between Ghosh the novelist and Ghosh the critic opens...