vol. 17: Love & Power:
Worlds of Dissonance and Harmony, 1996
Staff:

contents

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