Autumn 1995, Vol. 45, No. 1
Articles
Introduction: The Poetics of Disgrace
CHRISTOPHER WISE 5
A Widening Geography of Awareness: Thomas Merton as Postcolonial Prophet
VICTOR A. KRAMER 13
Messianic Hallucinations and Manichean Realities: Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Christianity, and the Third World Novel
CHRISTOPHER WISE 31
Of Nuns and Palaces: Rumer Godden’s Black Narcissus
ALAKNANDA GABCHI 53
Terror and (Revolutionary?) Hope: Immanent Moments in Wilson Harris’s Resurrection at Sorrow Hill
UWE SCHAFER 67
Revolutionary as Christ: The Unrecognized Savior in Lu Xun’s Works
ZHANG LONGXI 81
“Through Other People”: Confession in South African Literature
SUSAN VANZANTEN GALLAGHER 95
Native American Testimonio: The Shared Vision of Black Elk and Rigoberta Menchu
R. TODD WISE 111
“Heralding” the New “Age of Iron”: J.M. Coetzee, Homelessness, Migrancy, and Nomadology
GEORG M. GUGELBERGER 129
Book Reviews
Elizabth Isichei, A History of Christianity in Africa
CHRISTOPHER WISE 137
Susan VanZanten Gallagher, ed., Postcolonial Literature and the Biblical Call for Justice
STEVEN V. HUNSAKER 138
Nicholas Thomas, Colonialism’s Culture: Anthropology, Travel, and Government
EDWIN MCALLISTER 140
John Beverley, Against Literature
E. JILL GLOVER 142
Moira Gerguson, Colonialism and Gender Relations from Mary Wollstonecraft to Jamaica Kincaid: East Caribbean Connections
CORA AGATUCCI 143
Matti Moosa, The Early Novels of Naguib Mahfouz: Images of Modern Egypt
RAMZI M. SALTI 146
Joseph Roach, Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance
PETER E. MORGAN 148
Poetry
The Labors of Angels
LUCI SHAW 52
At Summer’s End
JEAN JANZEN 94
Anchorite
JOHN LEAX 128