In Print

Bob Siegel's essay on Tennessee Williams, "The Metaphysics of Tennessee Williams" first published in American Drama, has been collected in Magical Muse: Millennial Essays on Tennessee Williams (U of Alabama P, 2002) edited by Ralph Voss.

Seodial Deena's "Third World Writers: Problematizations from Canonical and Colonial Control" was published in the Commonwealth Novel in English v.9-10 (Spring and Fall 2001).  According to Deena, "Misappropriation of the master narrative of Christianity by the imperialist is a way of rationalizing and spiritualizing the evil of colonial exploitation.  This paper demonstrates some problematizations encountered by postcolonial writers as they seek to cross the hurdles of colonial and canonical control over their works."

Peter Makuck's essay-review, "Formal, Semi-Formal, Deceptively Informal," appears in The Laurel Review (Winter 2002). He reviewed R.S. Gwynn's No Word of Farewell: Selected Poems, Christopher Merrill's Brilliant Water, and Sherry Olson's Breakfast at the Wayside. In addition, Makuck's essay "On Louis Simpson: Depths Beyond Happiness" has been reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, v.149.

Jim Holte's article, "Blade: A Return to Revulsion," appeared in The Journal of Dracula Studies, v.34.  Also this month, The Fantastic Vampire: Studies in the Children of the Night edited by Holte was published by the Greenwood Press. The book is a collection of essays about vampires originally presented at the 1997 ICFA Conference, which was the centennial of the publication of Bram Stoker's Dracula. The essays celebrate the 100 year history of the most famous vampire and are divided into four sections: 1.) "Studies in Stoker," which includes essays that examine not only Dracula, but other works by Stoker; 2.) "The Vampire in Film and Popular Culture," which includes examinations of vampires in music, films, and role-playing games, and Holte's "Resurrection in Britain: Christopher Lee and the Hammer Draculas;" 3.) "Modern Vampire Fictions," which includes essays on the works of Anne Rice and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro; 4.) "Contemporary Issues in the World of the Undead," which discusses such issues as AIDS, Colonialism, and gender concerns.

Roger C. Schlobin's review of Jan Bondeson's Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear (W. W. Norton, 2001) appeared in Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts v.12: 4 (April 2002).

Donald Palumbo's essay, "'Snatching Victory from the Jaws of Defeat': Twenty Fractal Variations on a Theme in the Conclusions of Asimov's Robot/Empire/Foundation Metaseries," also appeared in Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts v.12: 4 (April 2002).

Margaret Bauer's article on Ellen Gilchrist has been included in The History of Southern Literature edited by Carolyn Perry and Mary Louise Weaks for LSU Press (2002). Bauer writes, "At the center of Ellen Gilchrist's fiction is the upper middle-class South from the 1940s to the present. Gilchrist examines class, race, and gender issues, but her central concern is with the southern woman who tries to escape her dominating family. Opportunities for women may be broadening beyond marriage and motherhood, but the southern family Gilchrist writes about still tries to raise debutantes rather than ambitious daughters."

Pat Bizzaro has published two book reviews: "John Lang's Understanding Fred Chappell," in the Appalachian Journal v.29: 1/2 (Fall 2001/Winter 2002), and "The Kind of Fiction a Lot of People Can Read: Robert Morgan's This Rock" in Pembroke Magazine v.34 (Spring 2002).