Forthcoming Table of Contents/Celebrating Texas Writers: Part 2
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Special Section
essays from “LITERATURE, CULTURE & CRITIQUE: A CALLALOO RETREAT”, March 5–8, 2008, New Orleans, LA
Fiction
ROBERT BOSWELL / Story Ideas
NORMA CANTU / excerpts from Champú, or Hair Matters
DANIEL CHACON / What Manner of Light?
LAURIE CHAMPION / Where Has Your Lover Gone?
J. CALIFORNIA COOPER / Wait a Minute, World!
CHRISTINE GRANADOS / Haunts
TRUDIER HARRIS / “The Yellow Rose of Texas”: A Different Cultural View
DAVID HAYNES / Dear Daniel Davis or How I Came to Know Jesus Christ as my Personal Lord and Savior
ROLANDO HINJOJOSA-SMITH / Notes from a Forgotten War, So-called
MAT JOHNSON / Colony of New York, 1712
DEBRA MONROE / The Time to be Lovely is Always
JOHN POCH / Blade
R. CLAY REYNOLDS / Hoi polloi: Three Views
NELLY ROSARIO / The Disengagement of Airman Milton Guerreiro
LOWELL MICK WHITE / The Road Back to Destruction Bay
DAVID WRIGHT / The Road On
SHAY YOUNGBLOOD / excerpt from The Crying Bride: An Opera Novel
Nonfiction Prose
DAVID CHARIANDY / Strangers in the Quarters
MICHAEL COLLINS / Signifying in New Orleans
ANGIE CRUZ / I Almost Killed Him
FRED D’AGUIAR / Prosimetrum for the 9th Ward
SHONA N. JACKSON / The Economy of Babel or “Can I buy a vowel?”
JOYCE ANN JOYCE / “What We Do and Why We Do What We Do”: A Diasporic Commingling of Richard Wright and George Lamming
KORITHA MITCHELL / Generative Challenges: Notes on Increasing Artist/Critic Interaction
NELLY ROSARIO / NOLA Flow: A Callaloo Retreat in New Orleans
RINALDO WALCOTT / Field Notes: Artists, Academics Dialogue of the Past and Future of Diaspora Literary Expression [End Page 335]
DAGMAWI WOUBSHET / Tizita: A New World Interpretation
MICHELLE WRIGHT / The Retreat
Book Reviews
JACK CARSON / Races on Display: French Representations of Colonized Peoples by Dana S. Hale
ED CHAMBERLAIN / Private Lives, Proper Relations: Regulating Black Intimacy by Candice M. Jenkins
JANELLE COLLINS / Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination edited by Harriet Pollack and Christopher Metress
KEITH M. CORSON / Integrating the 40 Acres: the 50-year Struggle for racial Equality at the University of Texas by Dwonna Goldstone
PERE GIFRA-ADROHRER / Uncle Tom’s Cabin as Visual Culture by Jo-Ann Morgan
CHARLES F. IRON / Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865–1898 by Edward J. Blum
LA VINIA DELOIS JENNINGS / A Mercy by Toni Morrison
ANTHONY LOIO / The American Protest Essay and National Belongings: Addressing Division by Brian Norman
SUSANA M. MORRIS / Women’s Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation edited by Kathryn Kish Sklar and James Brewer Stewart
ELIZABETH SCHROEDER / Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940–1955 by Adam Green
CIERRA OLIVIA THOMAS-WILLIAMS / Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness edited by Kamari Maxine Clarke and Deborah Thomas
COURTNEY THORSSON / Up Against the Wall: Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party by Curtis J. Austin, Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics by Cedric Johnson, and In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on Revolutionary Movement edited by Jama Lazerow and Yohuru Williams
FRANCIS TOBIENNE, JR. / African American Bioethics: Culture, Race, and Identity edited by Edmund D. Pellegrino and Lawrence Prograis, Jr.
VANESSA K. VALDES / Out of Bounds: Islands and the Demarcation of Identity in the Hispanic Caribbean by Dara E. Goldman
/The Masters and the Slaves: Plantation Relations and Mestizaje in American Imaginaries edited by Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond
ASHANTI WHITE / Crescent City Countdown by Ronald M. Gauthier
NATALIE ZACEK / Medical Revolutionaries: The Enslaved Healers of Eighteenth-Century Saint Domingue by Karol K. Weaver [End Page 336]
