Lexington Books
Pages: 352
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7391-0092-9 • Paperback • May 2000 • $46.99 • (£36.00)
Eva Paulino Bueno is professor of literature at Mukogawa Women's University in Japan. Terry Caesar is senior professor of American literature at Mukogawa Women's University. William Hummel received his Ph.D. in American Literature from Arizona State University in 1999.
chapter 1 Acknowledgments
chapter 2 Introduction: Naming the Dead Father
chapter 3 Part One: The Father in Memory. The Business of Mourning
chapter 4 Two Fingers of Chat
chapter 5 The Culture of My Childhood. Part Two: Fathers in Ethnic Culture. Performative Fathers and the Inessential Macho: Fatherhood in Contemporary Latino/Latina Literature
chapter 6 Negations and Subversions of Paternal Authorities in Glissant's Fictional Works (Le Quatri<\#143>me Si<\#143>cle, La Case du commandeur, Tout-monde)
chapter 7 Holy and Unholy Ghosts: The Legacy of the Father in the Plays of August Wilson. Part Three: Fathers and Daughters. The Legacy of "The Unspeakable Father" in Henry James's The Wings of the Dove
chapter 8 Generating Alternative Representations of Fatherhood: Anzia Yezierska and Dorothy Canfield Fisher's Narrative Spaces for Male Others
chapter 9 The Daughters of Memory: The Modernist Poet as Father. Part Four: Beyond the Father. Oedipus and the Modernist Aesthetic: Reconceiving the Social in Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier
chapter 10 Naming the Father: Genealogy, Spectacle, and Jack Nicholson in Going Native
chapter 11 Original Chaos Restored: Paternal Fictions in William S. Burroughs
chapter 12 Works Cited
chapter 13 Index