Uneasy Alliance

• PrefaceGert BUELENS: Metaphor, Metonymy, and Ethics in The Portrait of a LadyPeter RIETBERGEN: A Variety of Ambersons: Re-reading Booth Tarkington’s and Orson Welles’ The Magnificent AmbersonsGonny van BEEK-van OVERBEEK: Stepping Through a Looking-Glass: The Worlds of Julia Peterkin (1880-1961)C.C. BARFOOT: Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Sonnets: Putting “Chaos into Fourteen Lines”Edward MARGOLIES: Portraits of Gotham: Twentieth-Century American Culture and the Writers of New York CityMathilde ROZA: American Literary Modernisms, Popular Culture and Metropolitan Mass Life: The Early Fiction of Robert M. CoatesRichard S. KENNEDY: E.E. Cummings and Marion Morehouse: The Later YearsInez HOLLANDER-LAKE: Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998): Femme Fatale of American LettersSusan CASTILLO: Reading Signs: Epistemological Uncertainty and the Southern Grotesque in Flannery O’Connor’s Wise BloodDiederik OOSTDIJK: “How Rough Can Editors Be?”: Conrad Aiken, Edward Dahlberg, and Karl Shapiro in a Literary RowMarian JANSSEN: Postillion for Pegasus: Isabella Gardner and PoetryJaap van der BENT: Nabokov’s Unwanted Children: Lolita and the Writers of the Olympia PressRené VERWAAIJEN: The Almighty’s Own Purposes: Alfred Kazin’s God and the American WriterJan BAKKER: Saul Bellow and the ActualDerek RUBIN: Between Prominence and Obscurity: Jewish-American Writers at the Center of a Decentralized LiteratureKathleen M. ASHLEY: Toni Morrison’s TrickstersHans BAK: Site of Passage: The City as a Place of Exile in Contemporary North-American Multicultural LiteratureMary A. McCAY: Sandra Cisneros: Crossing BordersLoes NAS: Border Crossings in Latina Narrative: Julia Alvarez’ How the García Girls Lost Their AccentsTheo D’HAEN: Stalking Multiculturalism: Historical Sleuths at the End of the Twentieth CenturyHans BERTENS: The English Tradition in Contemporary American Crime FictionNotes on Contributors

”…enjoyable and enlightening reads….in the breadth and variety and quality of its contents, Hans Bak and his team have ample reason to be proud of their achievement.” in: American Studies in Scandinavia, Vol. 37:1, 2005, pp.98-101