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The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

Contents

Articles 

Of Woman Bondage: The Eroticism of Feet in The House on Mango Street  

Dodworth's Revelation: Motoring Toward Self 

From Feeling to Form: Image as Translation in the Poetry of Charles Wright 

Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children: National Narrative as a Liminal Voice 

Significant Stereotypes in Hurston's "Conscience of the Court" 

Liberal Learning Needs a New Public Relations Campaign 

POEMS 

Selfishness 

To My Father 

Rantings 

A Hawk & The Uncontaminated Soul  

Pluck 

Venetian Blinds  

Why We Plan to Move 

Window Seat 

Admitting Finally 

Ritual  

In the Kitchen 

A Time of Forgiveness 

Around Each and Every 

Ting Ting 

Here in the Mountains (1) 

REVIEW 

Anne-Marie Smith; A Forced Agreement: Press Acquiescence to Censorship in Brazil 

Abstract

As MICHELLE SCALISE SUGIYAMA shows, author Sandra Cisneros uses women's shoes and feet as potent symbols and actual examples of male manipulation of female sexuality and freedom. An Affiliate of the Institute for Cognitive and Decision Sciences at the University of Oregon and of the Center for Evolutionary Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Sugiyama approaches the universal behavior of storytelling from a cognitive and anthropological perspective. Her work can be found in The Hemingway Review, Human Nature, Mosaic, and Skeptic, and she is completing a book-length study developing an alternative to Freudian literary analysis and its derivatives by examining six of Hemingway's women characters in terms of the adaptive problems relevant to their sexual histories and circumstances.

THORUNN RUGA MCCOY explores Sinclair Lewis's focus on motion to articulate the journey of self Sam Dodsworth takes within himself. Currently teaching English composition and literature courses at the University of Northern Colorado, McCoy, a specialist on early American women's novels, is here publishing her first scholarly essay.

DAVID GARRISON demonstrates how poet Charles Wright pits technique against that which resists explicit language, makes vivid and external that which is felt, internal. Associate Professor of English and Chair of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky, Garrison has published two previous essays on Wright and poems in a number of journals. He is currently working on a study of landscape as a figurative device in Ernest Hemingway and Wright.

DIANE AVERILL, Beavercreek, Oregon, has published two books of poems, Branches Doubled Over with Fruit (University of Central Florida), which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award, and Beautiful Obstacles (Blue Light, 1998). She has also published two chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Calyx, Colorado Review, Tar River Poetry, Carnegie Mellon Anthology of Poetry (1994), and From Here We Speak: An Anthology of Oregon Poetry (1993). Her poems have appeared previously in The Midwest Quarterly.

BALOIAN's poems have appeared recently in Midwest Poetry Review, American Review, Small Pond, Reflect, and Ship of Fools. His poems have appeared previously in The Midwest Quarterly. He lives in Half Moon Bay, California.

K. H. BARRON has published poems in Touchstone and previously in The Midwest Quarterly. She lives and writes in the flint hills of Kansas.

ALAN BRITT, Reistertown, Maryland, is editor of the magazine, Black Moon: Poetry of Imagination. He has published two books, Amnesia Tango (Cedar Hill, 1998) and Bodies of Lightning (Cypress Books, 1995). His poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Bitter Oleander, Chariton Review, New Letters, and Fathers: A Collection of Poems (St. Martin's, 1997). His poems have appeared previously in The Midwest Quarterly.

MARY CROW, Ft. Collins, Colorado, has published four books of poems, including most recently I Have Tasted the Apple (Boa, 1996) and Borders (Boa, 1989). She has published translations of the work of Roberto Juarroz and Jorge Teillier, and is working on a third edition of her anthology of Latin American women poets, Woman Who Has Sprouted Wings. Her poems have appeared previously in American Poetry Review, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, Nimrod, and numerous other journals. Her poems have appeared previously in The Midwest Quarterly.

LOIS MARIE HARROD's third book of poems, Part of the Deeper Sea (Palanquin Press) was published in 1997. She has also published a chapbook. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including American Poetry Review, Carolina Quarterly, and Prairie Schooner. She lives in Hopewell, New Jersey.

FLEDA BROWN JACKSON's latest book, The Devil's Child, was recently published by Carnegie Mellon. Her poems have appeared previously in the Midwest Quarterly. She lives in Newark, Delaware.

KATHLEEN LYNCH, Loomis, California, has published poems recently in Poetry East, Poetry Northwest, Peregrine, and Spoon River Poetry Review. She has also published fiction, essays, and photographs. Her poems have appeared previously in The Midwest Quarterly.

HILLARY LYON has published poems recently in Lucid Stone and Poem. Her first chapbook is in the works. Her poems have appeared previously in The Midwest Quarterly. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.

ROBIN MICHEL, Fremont, California, works as communications coordinator for a not-for-profit organization. Her poems and stories have appeared in several small press magazines.

ANDREA MOORHEAD is editor of the literary magazine, Osiris. The most recent of her five books of poems is From a Grove of Aspen (University of Salzburg, 1997). She has also published a translation of the work of Helene Dorian, a contemporary Québécois poet. Her poems have appeared previously in The Midwest Quarterly.

PATTIANN ROGERS, Castle Rock, Colorado, has published several books of poems, including most recently Eating Bread and Honey (Milkweed, 1997) and A Covenant of Seasons (Hudson Hills, 1998), with artist Joellyn Duesberry. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Paris Review, American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, New Republic, Hudson Review, Prairie Schooner, Kenyon Review, and others.

SAM TAYLOR is editor of the new literary magazine, Raw Seed Review. His poems have appeared recently in Oasis, Mind in Motion, Bouillabaisse, and other journals. He lives in Ojai, California.

MARK MOSSMAN contends that rather than simply representing a Third World "national narrative," Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children explores both an eastern and a western sensibility, the viewpoint of both the colonized and the colonizer. A teaching fellow at Saint Louis University working on a dissertation examining Modernism and Modernist aesthetics, Mossman has an essay accepted for The Thomas Hardy Yearbook.

JUDITH MUSSER finds that the feel-good stereotypes crafted by African- American writer Zora Neale Hurston in her last published short story, while appealing to white, middle-class readers superficially, revealed a much greater sensitivity to the matter of being black in America than previous critics have perceived. Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, Musser has published on Marita Bonner and T.S. Eliot. She is currently editing a two-volume complete edition of short stories written by women of the Harlem Renaissance.

WILLIAM CASEMENT argues that the case has yet to be made for the practical uses of liberal studies, and he provides a number of specific instances where what some dismiss as trivial not only can provide a cultural literacy but also improve the quality of one's thinking about the fundamental issues that confront us in many different guises. Now director of a large art gallery in Naples, Florida, Casement was a professor of philosophy and humanities at St. Thomas University in Florida and of educational studies at S.U.N.Y. at New Paltz. He has published widely in scholarly journals, including The Midwest Quarterly, on educational theory, political theory, and literary theory and criticism, and in 1996 produced The Great Canon Controversy: The Battle of the Books in Higher Education for Transaction Publishers.

PAUL W. ZAGORSKI is Professor of Political Science at Pittsburg State University. He is the author of Democracy vs. National Security: Civil-Military Relations in Latin America (1992) and of many scholarly articles on Latin American politics.

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