Fall 1996, Vol. 15, No. 2

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