vol. 16: 1995
Staff:
Kelly M. McHugh - Editor; Stephenie Young - Managing Editor; Dominique Drechsler, Ginger Mazzapica - Associate Editors; Editorial Assistants: Marc Aubertin, Marietta Bonaventure, James Walter Caufield, Kathleen Clariett, Kate Gillon, Susan Hanggie, Ken Lee, Carol Ríos, Dominic Szeto

Table of Contents

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