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