From the Editor, 215-219
Holly Laird

Articles

Forum: After Empire II

The Historical Moments of Postcolonial Writing: Beyond Colonialism’s Binary, 221-229
Peggy Ochoa

A Dialectic of Autonomy and Community: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions, 231-240
Lindsay Pentolfe Aegerter

Torture and Commemoration: Narrating Solidarity in Elvira Orphée’s “Las viejas fantasiosas,” 241-252
Joseph Slaughter

Sexual Orientation in the (Post)Imperial Nation: Celticism and Inversion Theory in Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness, 253-266
Margot Gayle Backus

Afterword: Thoughts Toward the Future of Postcolonial Studies, 267-268
Isabella Matsikidze

From Avenger to Victim: Genealogy of a Renaissance Novella, 269-288
Josephine Donovan

The Metaphorical Lesbian: Edna Pontellier in The Awakening, 289-307
Elizabeth LeBlanc

House Mothers and Haunted Daughters: Shirley Jackson and Female Gothic, 309-331
Roberta Rubenstein

Giving Birth to Marguerite Yourcenar, 333-347
Charlotte Hogsett

Reviews

“The Changing Same”: Black Women’s Literature, Criticism, and Theory, by Deborah E. McDowell, 349-352
Kimberly W. Benston

“Doers of the Word”: African-American Women Speakers and Writers in the North (1830-1880), Carla L. Peterson, 352-355
Joycelyn K. Moody

The Coupling Convention: Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women’s Fiction, by Ann duCille, 355-357
Gloria T. Randle

Jump at the Sun: Zora Neale Hurston’s Cosmic Comedy, by John Lowe; Every Tub Must Sit on Its Own Bottom: The Philosophy and Politics of Zora Neale Hurston, by Deborah Plant, 358-360
Jennifer Jordan

Changing the Subject: Mary Wroth and Figurations of Gender in Early Modern England, by Naomi J. Miller, 361-362
Curtis Perry

Torrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality, and Empire in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives, by Felicity A. Nussbaum, 363-365
George Haggerty

Nobody’s Angels: Middle-Class Women and Domestic Ideology in Victorian Culture, by Elizabeth Langland, 365-638
Elisabeth Rose Gruner

Place Matters: Gendered Geography in Victorian Women’s Travel Books About Southeast Asia, by Susan Morgan, 369-371
Joyce Zonana

A Living of Words: American Women in Print Culture, by Susan Albertine, 371-373
Susan Coultrap-McQuin

Multicultural Literatures through Feminist/Poststructuralist Lenses, edited by Barbara Frey Waxman, 373-374
Angelyn Mitchell

Feminism and Deconstruction: Ms. en Abyme, by Diane Elam, 374-376
Shelly Gregory

Editor’s Note, 7-11
Holly Laird

“Beyond” Gynocriticism and Gynesis: The Geographics of Identity and the Future of Feminist Criticism, 13-40
Susan Stanford Friedman

Articles

Forum: After Empire I

Conflicting Nationalisms: The Voice of the Subaltern in Mahasweta Devi’s Bashai Tudu, 41-50
Alaknanda Bagchi

National Families and Familial Nations: Communista Americans in Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban, 51-60
David T. Mitchell

Keys to the Labyrinth: Writing, Torture, and Coetzee’s Barbarian Girl, 61-71
Jennifer Wenzel

Acting in the Public Sphere and the Politics of Memory in Janette Turner Hospital, 73-81
David Callahan

The Fictional Identities of Elizabeth Gunning, 83-98
Pam Perkins

French Women’s Revolutionary Writings: Madame Roland or the Pleasure of the Mask, 99-122
Brigitte Szymanek

The Madwoman Can’t Speak: Postwar Culture, Feminist Criticism, and Welty’s “June Recital,” 123-146
Marta Caminero-Santangelo

Reviews

Writing Women in Jacobean England, by Barbara Kiefer Lewalski; Tudor and Stuart Women Writers, by Louise Schleiner, 147-150
Rosemary Kegl

Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sensibility in the 1790s: Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen, by Claudia L. Johnson, 150-152
Julia Epstein

Penelope Voyages: Women and Travel in the British Literary Tradition, by Karen R. Lawrence; A Wider Range: Travel Writing by Women in Victorian England, by Maria H. Frawley, 152-155.
Johanna M. Smith

The First Woman of the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child, by Carolyn L. Karcher; Cultural Reformations: Lydia Maria Child and the Literature of Reform, by Bruce Mills, 155-157
Andrea M. Atkin

Whispers in the Dark: The Fiction of Louisa May Alcott, by Elizabeth Lennox Keyser, 157-159
Mary Bortnyk Rigsby

Women of the Harlem Renaissance, by Cheryl A. Wall; Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman’s Life Unveiled, by Thadious M. Davis, 159-162
Anne Stavney

The Politics of Color in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen, by Jacquelyn Y. McLendon, 163-164
Kimberley J. Roberts

A Poetics of Resistance: Women Writing in El Salvador, South Africa, and the United States, by Mary K. DeShazer, 165-167
Lillian S. Robinson

Listening to Silences: New Esssays in Feminist Criticism, edited by Elaine Hedges and Shelley Fisher Fishkin, 167-170
Barbara Frey Waxman

To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction, by Joanna Russ, 170-172
Jennifer Johnson

Feminism and the Politics of Literary Reputation: The Example of Erica Jong, by Charlotte Templin, 173-175
Mary Anne Ferguson

Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life, by Marjorie Garber, 175-177
John Bury