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