Volume 25, Issue 4
FRONT COVER: Li Hua
Roar China, 1935
WOODCUT
Table of Contents
History, Fiction by R. M. Berry
Avenues in Bloom; Celebrating Thinking, Poetry by Edward Kleinschmidt
Observer: Seeing and Being Seen in China, Non-Fiction by Terry Caesar
Crowded Shanghai Market; Scattering Dynasties, Poetry by John Tagliabue
Netsuke, Poetry by Deb Casey
The Case of Missing Abstraction: Eliot, Frazer and Modernism, Non-Fiction by Jewel Spears Brooker
Chineese Woodcuts, 1935-1949, with an essay by Agnes Smedley and a drawing of her by Käthe Kollwitz
TRANSLAIONS BY FREDERICK C. ELLERT, EDITED BY EVA SCHIFFER AND HENRY A. LEA
The Old Nag; Christ Forlorn, by Christian Morgenstern
Where to Now?, by Heinrich Heine
And What did the Soldier’s Wife Receive?, by Bertolt Brecht,
Sestina Lente, Poetry by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Kartini: Letters from a Javanese Feminist, 1899-1902, with an introduction by E. M. Beekman
The Idea of Haiti, Poetry by Peter LaSalle
Saudi Women, Non-Fiction by Judith Caesar
Cowboy, Poetry by Gray Burr
IN SEARCH OF AMERICA: AMERICAN STUDIES IN TRANSITION
On Heidegger’s Conception of ‘Technology’, Non-Fiction by Leo Marx
Technology, Media, and the Idea of Progress, Non-Fiction by Susan J. Douglas
Urban Environmental Education, Non-Fiction by Myrna Margulies Breibert
Myth and Symbol, Non-Fiction by Alan Trachtenberg
Language and Difference in American Studies, Non-Fiction by Laura Wexler
Contributors
E. M. BEEKMAN, novelist, poet and translator, teaches at the University of Massachusetts; he is the editor of the twelve volume series of Dutch colonial literature, Library of the Indies.
R. M. BERRY‘s first collection of fiction, Plane Geometry and Other Affairs of the Heart, received the Illinois State University-Fiction Collective Award and will be published by the Fiction Collective.
The author of a number of essays on urban and environmental issues, MYRNA MARGULIES BREITBART teaches in the School of Social Sciences, Hampshire College.
JEWEL SPEARS BROOKER‘s forth coming books include A Study of the Mythical Method in Modern Literature; she writes and lectures on poetry and modernism.
Poet GRAY BURR‘s work has appeared in various magazines and anthologies; he has published two collections of verse.
JUDITH CAESAR, who teaches at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, has spent two years in Saudi Arabia and will teach in Cairo next year.
TERRY CAESAR taught in the People’s Republic of China in 1983-84; his articles have appeared in the Yale Review and other journals.
DEB CASEY, Art Consultant to the Northwest Review, has published poems in the Chicago Review, Prairie Schooner and other literary magazines.
SUSAN J. DOUGLAS teaches at Hampshire College and is completing a book on the origins of American broadcasting.
PETER LASALLE writes fiction and poetry; his most recent book is a novel, Strange Sunlight.
EDWARD KLEIN SCHMIDT has just finished a first novel, The Blue Novel; he teaches at the University of Santa Clara.
HENRY A. LEA and EVA SCHIFFER, both members of the German Dept., University of Massachusetts, were friends and colleagues of FREDERICK ELLERT, a founding editor of The Massachusetts Review.
LEO MARX, author of The Machine in the Garden and many essays in American literature, is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American Cultural History at M.I.T.
Professor of English at Amherst College, EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK is both a poet and a scholar; her poems have appeared in Salmagundi, Epoch and other quarterlies and her literary study, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire was recently published by Columbia University Press.
JOHN TAGLIABUE, author of five poetry collections, has taught in a half-dozen countries and has been keeping travel journals since 1945; he has most recently taught in Shanghai, the source of his newest collection of poems, China Journal.
ALAN TRACHTENBERG, whose most recent books include The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age, is a professor of American Studies at Yale University.
LAURA WEXLER teaches English and American Studies at Amherst College.