Books Received

Eric Gary Anderson teaches American and American Indian literature at George Mason University. He is the author of American Indian Literature and the Southwest: Contexts and Dispositions (University of Texas Press, 1999) as well as of numerous essays in books such as Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry (University of Arizona Press, 2003) and South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture (Louisiana State University Press, 2002). Currently he is working on two research projects, one on early southern captivity narratives and one on William Faulkner's ecological imagination.

Tanya Long Bennett is Assistant Professor of English at North Georgia College and State University. She has published "No Country to Call Home: A Study of Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters," (Style, Fall 1996); "The Protean Ivy in Lee Smith's Fair and Tender Ladies," (Southern Literary Journal, Spring 1998); and "'It was like I was right there': Primary Experience and the Role of Memory in Lee Smith's The Devil's Dream" (Pembroke Magazine, 2001). She is currently writing an article on Lee Smith's Saving Grace.

Thomas Bonner, Jr. is Chair and Kellogg Professor of English at Xavier University of Louisiana. He served as Distinguished Visiting Professor at the United States Air Force Academy, 2000-2002. For twenty years he edited Xavier Review. He recently edited and contributed to the John Faulkner special issue of the Mississippi Quarterly (vol. 54, no. 4 [Fall 2001]) and wrote the chapbook The Epistolary Poe (Poe Society of Baltimore, 2001).

Kimberly Nichele Brown is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University specializing in contemporary African American literature and culture, black feminist theory, Caribbean women's literature, and black film. In her book, Writing the Revolutionary Diva: Black Women's Subjectivity and the Decolonized Text (forthcoming 2005 from Indiana University Press), Brown employs the figure of the "revolutionary diva" as both a moniker and trope of feminist agency for many contemporary African American women writers. Brown argues that these women write with a revolutionary imperative to "decolonize" their black reading constituency.

Philip Dubuisson Castille is Professor of English and Dean of the College of Arts & Letters at Eastern Washington University. He has published studies of works by William Faulkner, Thomas Jefferson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Penn Warren, James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, William Alexander Percy, and Huey Long. He is currently co-editing Voices of the American South for publication by Longman Publishers. A member of SCMLA for 25 years, he is also a member of the St. George Tucker Society for scholars in southern studies.

Karen Michele Chandler is Associate Professor of English at the University of Louisville. She has published works of creative non-fiction as well as critical essays on American and African American film and literature. Her work has appeared in African American Review, The Henry James Review, and These Hands I Know. She is currently writing about children's fiction and film that treats slavery, literacy, and folklore.

Susan V. Donaldson is National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of English at the College of William and Mary, where she has been teaching since 1985. She is the author of Competing Voices: The American Novel, 1865-1914 (Twain Publishers, 1998), which won a Choice "Outstanding Academic Book" award, and over thirty articles on southern literature, art, and culture. She is also co-editor, with Anne Goodwyn Jones, of Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts (University Press of Virginia, 1997), and guest-editor of two special double issues of The Faulkner Journal, one on Faulkner and sexuality and the other on Faulkner and masculinity.

Betina Entzminger is an Assistant Professor of English at Bloomsburg University. She has published articles on southern writers in Southern Quarterly, Mississippi Quarterly, and College Literature. Recently, her book, The Belle Gone Bad: White Southern Women Writers and the Dark Seductress, was published by Louisiana State University Press (2002). She also has an article titled "Playing in the Dark Welty: The Symbolic Role of African Americans in Delta Wedding" forthcoming in College Literature.

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