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Occidentalist Theater Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Brecht as Counter Others
Authors: Chen Xiaomei 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The current discourse on postcolonial and postmodern conditions has produced a number of exciting scholarly inquiries, among them Jyotsna Singh’s insightful historical account of the cultural imperialism manifested in the productions of Shakespeare in lndia. Singh demonstrates how the English bard “kept alive the myth of English cultural refinement and superiority-a myth that was crucial to the rulers’ political interests in colonial India.”2 This study is an especially valuable contribution to the current discussion because of the way it illustrates how the construction of English literature and the exporting of the English language consolidated the political and ideological hegemony of the colonial empire in a Third World country. Singh’s study has ramifications beyond India, however. Her model can certainly be followed in producing histories of the reception of Western ideas by other non-Western cultures sharing some of the historical conditions that marked colonial India. Among these cultures is twentieth-century China, where the introduction of English and other Western literary and philosophical traditions have fundamentally shaped the theory and practice of literature since the beginning of the May Fourth movement.
“Misunderstanding” Western Modernism The Menglong Movement
Authors: Chen Xiaomei 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
I have in the last two chapters focused on the manifestations of Occidentalism in such popular media as television and the professional theater in post-Mao China. Yet the same phenomenon can also be traced in media and traditions that are anything but popular. Consider, for example, the case of recent lyric poetry and its relationship to Western literary texts. Ezra Pound’s Orientalism, or his “discovery” of the Chinese ideograph, thought to have resulted from a “misunderstanding” of Chinese language and culture, is a familiar story in the West. What has not been widely known, however, is the twin story of the reception of Pound’s modernist poetics in post-Mao China and the way in which it has paradoxically affected the rise and fall of menglong poetry. This chapter is devoted to an examination of a recent Occidentalist “misunderstanding” of Poundian modernist poetics by Chinese poets and critics that would surprise Pound and Ernest Fenollosa. I will defend what might seem at first a surprising claim: that Chinese literary production of the 1980s-and particularly the critical debate on menglong poetry-is based on and conditioned by an Occidentalism and a “misunderstanding” of Western modernism that is as profound as its better-known Western Orientalist counterpart. From the perspective to be sketched here, we will see that it is impossible to speak of contemporary Chinese literature and its reception in the 1980s without taking into serious account the indispensable role that, as a form of ideology in the voice of a counter
A Wildman Between the Orient and the Occident Retro-Influence in Comparative Literary Studies
Authors: Chen Xiaomei 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Our discussions of He shang, Chinese reception of Occidental theater, and the Chinese debate on menglong poetry in post-Mao society have demonstrated that in twentieth-century literary study it is impossible to separate Oriental and Occidental traditions.1 Certainly one can no longer talk about Ezra Pound and his modernist poetics without mentioning his Chinese “parental tradition.” Neither can one discuss the menglong debate without exploring the theory and practice of Pound and other Western predecessors. Indeed, to a marked extent, one can claim that Chinese literary and cultural studies are tied unavoidably to their Western counterparts. For Sinology, then, world literature and culture can no longer be ignored or assigned a secondary status as mere source or influence. Neither should they be simply labeled as expressions of Occidentalism and hence dismissed as acts of cultural imperialism. Especially in view of the increasing exchanges between cultures, Sinology cannot exist without Western contacts and apart from the contexts of Western texts. Neither is it possible to speak of a Western tradition that is “uncontaminated” by things Chinese. This situation points to yet another important aspect of the way that Occidentalism can be viewed, in certain cases, as a positive and liberating force in recent Chinese literature and culture.
Fathers and Daughters in Early Modern Chinese Drama On the Problematics of Occidentalism in Cross Cultural I Gender Perspectives
Authors: Chen Xiaomei 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Throughout this study, we have emphasized the politically liberating force of Occidentalism when used as a counter-discourse in the formation of literary history in contemporary Chinese TV culture, drama, and poetry. In the account of the TV documentary He shang in chapter 1, for example, I stressed the anti-official function of Occidentalism, which was employed by Chinese intellectuals as a powerful strategy against the predominant official ideology. Yet, this is not to argue that Occidentalism is not highly problematic and cannot at times become ideologically limiting and confining. As a way of concluding this study of Chinese Occidentalism in an inclusive manner, with a deliberate open-endedness that matches the very subject under scrutiny, I stress in this chapter the problematic nature of Occidentalism by recounting an earlier episode in modern Chinese dramatic history. I argue that, on the one hand, a group of male May Fourth playwrights considered writing about women’s issues of liberation and equality important political and ideological strategies in their formation of a countertradition and a countercanon against the Confucian ruling ideology. In such a peculiar “male-dominated-feminist” discourse, they found in the image of the West a powerful weapon against the predominant ruling ideology of Confucianism.
The Impact of Calvin’s Trinitarian Controversies upon the Economic-Trinitarian Emphasis of His Theology
Authors: Butin Philip Walker 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
By and large, sufficient attention has not been given in assessments of Calvin’s thought to the prominence of trinitarian concerns in the doctrinal controversies of his minis-try, or to the profound contribution that these encounters made to the trinitarian shape of his emerging Christian vision. As a consequence, Calvin scholarship has tended to underestimate the pervasiveness of his trinitarian concern.1 The problem is only one facet of a broader inclination in Calvin studies to divorce consideration of his doctrine from examination of his life and ministry, and vice versa.
Viola Brothers Shore (1890–1970)
Authors: Herbert Rosemary 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
When Viola Brothers Shore died at the age of seventy-nine in 1970, her New York Times obituary did not mention that she was the creator of Gwynn Leith, the highly capable amateur sleuth who solves “The Mackenzie Case.” Shore dropped out of high school to pursue her dream of becoming a violinist but became an office worker, wife, and mother before taking up writing. A multi talented writer, Shore pursued journalism, wrote titles for silent movies and screenplays for early sound movies, and penned her own plays. She also authored a biography of the producer John Golden.
David Winser (1915–1944)
Authors: Herbert Rosemary 
Published: November 2023

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It is the joy of the anthologist to introduce readers to a writer of quality who has receded from public attention. David (Michael de Reuda) Winser is a case in point. Neglected by chroniclers of the literary history of crime and mystery writing, Winser nonetheless produced a story that was regarded by Ellery Queen as “the only short story we know of that involves boating as a true sport.” Winser’s foray into crime writing was but one of the many accomplishments that he achieved during his brief life. He had earned distinction as a sportsman, writer, doctor, and military man before he was tragically killed at the age of twenty-nine during World War II.
John Dickson Carr (1905–1977)
Authors: Herbert Rosemary 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
This anthology would not be complete without a story involving a corpse completely surrounded by sand-with no footprints leading to or from the murder site. The master of the impossible crime, John Dickson Carr, creates and solves this classic puzzle in “Invisible Hands,” which tells a tale of a strangling-usually a hands-on crime-that has taken place on an armchair shaped rock isolated on an untouched stretch of sand, indicating that no one has approached the victim close enough to get a grip on her.
Saho Sasazawa (1930–)
Authors: Herbert Rosemary 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
It is impossible to read Saho Sasazawa’s “Invitation from the Sea” without remarking on how reminiscent it is, in terms of circumstance and mysterious atmosphere, of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None(1940; originally titled Ten Little Niggers, 1939; also Ten Little Indians, 1965). Five guests who seem to have no prior connection to one another are invited by an unknown host to a waterside holiday retreat. The invitations are signed only, “The Sea.” Sasazawa builds tension among the guests gathered together in a Japanese hotel suite as successfully as Christie and other writers of classic detective novels, who assembled their suspects in country house libraries.
Susan Moody (1940–)
Authors: Herbert Rosemary 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
It is not surprising that Susan Moody has penned this story of treachery on the water entitled “Oh, Who Hath Done This Deed?” Moody grew up in Oxford but spent numerous holidays along the hazardous waterfront at Deal, near Dover, England. She has described the view from her childhood holiday home as containing “the spars of wrecked ships,” which “stuck up on the horizon like the arms of sailors, not waving, but drowning.” Even the sandbar where she played cricket between tides became quicksand as the tide turned. The daughter of an Oxford don, Moody was born Susan Elizabeth Horwood. She was educated at the Oxford High School for Girls and at the Open University, an educational alternative that Moody describes as “started by the socialists and implemented by the Tories.” Moody then spent two years in France, assisting an expert orchid grower. She later married an American biologist and moved to Tennessee, where she lived for ten years. After her first husband died, she remarried and continued to raise three sons in Bedford, England. She has worked as a creative writing teacher at H.M. Prison, Bedford, and has served as vice chairman and as chairman of the British Crime Writers Association. In recent years she has taken up residence again in Oxford.
Narrative, History, and the African Imagination
Authors: Irele F Abiola 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Let me begin with a reminiscence, one whose relevance to my subject will, I hope, soon become apparent. I remember that, when I was a little boy in primary school in the late 1940s in Lagos, we used a textbook entitled Itan Eko for our history class. This was a book written in the Yoruba language on the history of Lagos, which is today capital of the independent African nation of Nigeria.
The Crisis of Cultural Memory in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
Authors: Irele F Abiola 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
If there is any single work that can be considered central to the evolving canon of modern African literature, it is, without question, Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. The novel owes this distinction to the innovative significance it assumed as soon as it was published, a significance that was manifested in at least two respects. In the first place, the novel provided an image of an African society reconstituted as a living entity and in its historic circumstance, an image of a coherent social structure forming the institutional fabric of a universe of meanings and values. Because this image of Africa was quite unprecedented in literature, it also carried considerable ideological weight in the specific context of the novel’s writing and reception. For it cannot be doubted that the comprehensive scope of Achebe’s depiction of a particularized African community engaged in its own social processes, carried out entirely on its own terms, with all the internal tensions this entailed, challenged the simplified representation that the West offered of Africa as a formless area of life, “an area of darkness” devoid of human significance.
Bonhoeffer’s Christological Redescription of Philosophy
Authors: Marsh Charles 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In Act and Being Bonhoeffer provides what he calls a “typological sketch” of philosophers and philosophical theologians from both transcendental and ontological traditions as a means of evaluating their significance for theology. Among the representative figures of transcendental thought, Bonhoeffer discusses Hermann Cohen, Paul Natorp, Friedrich Brunstäd, and Reinhold Seeberg; from ontology, Edmund Husserl, Max Scheler, Martin Heidegger, and Erich Przywara. Readers looking for detailed theological analyses of these seminal thinkers will be disappointed. Bonhoeffer’s purposes are twofold: first, to locate philosophical themes which can be applied to the theological project of reconciling concepts of act and being in a Christian reflection on God and revelation,1 and, second, to show how philosophy can be taken into the service of explicating the secondary objectivity of revelation, that is, the worldliness of revelation.
Christ Between Totality and Otherness: Bonhoeffer’s Earliest Theology
Authors: Marsh Charles 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In 1927 Bonhoeffer qualified for the licentiate under Reinhold Seeberg at the University of Berlin with the dissertation Sanctorum Communio: A Dogmatic Inquiry into the Sociology of the Church. The book, as Bonhoeffer modestly describes it in the preface, is an attempt to position “social philosophy and sociology in the service of dogmatics.”1 The purpose is to understand the revelation of Jesus Christ in its constitutive sociality, without lapsing into a banal sociology or a bland ecclesiology.
The Body and Gender
Authors: Cooey Paula M 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Issues of gender remain implicit throughout Alicia Partnoy’s account of her incarceration and torture in The Little School; however, gender itself is not incidental. At the time Partnoy is a mother separated from her very young daughter, as well as a wife separated from her husband. The stress of imprisonment, bad diet, and constant fear causes the female prisoners’ bodies to cease to menstruate. The possibility of rape, a violation that could result in pregnancy when perpetrated upon a female, preys upon the minds of the women. The guards amuse themselves by watching prisoners engage in sexual behavior. One female prisoner actually delivers a child; the mother never reappears, and the fate of the child remains unknown to this day.
The Body as Sign for Religious Imagination
Authors: Cooey Paula M 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
What is the relation between sentience and subjectivity? This chapter focuses on the significance of the body for subjectivity. Verbal and visual images teach us to “see,” to imagine; they do so in part by providing concrete, particular bodies that cue us to attribute subjectivity to the self or another, or to withhold it. In short, the body locates a human being as object of interpretation by the self and others; the body is a sign—a very ambiguous one. This chapter explores the role played by verbal imagery in the attribution or denial of subjectivity to self and other; the next chapter discusses the significance of visual imagery.
Site, Sign, and Imagination
Authors: Cooey Paula M 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Morrison’s characters illustrate in regard to text how the body cues an interpreter to respond to another’s agency in relation to various cultural forces. Posture, skin color, body markings, and movement, portrayed through the medium of the written word, operate as evocative coding, the meaning of which emerges as a transaction from the interaction of sentience with an immediate context and an interpreter’s past. An encounter among characters serves as the generative force for meaning that becomes only further complicated and enriched by what a reader of the text brings to bear upon it, as well as what other critics may have written about it.
Teleology, Monocausality, and Marriage in Ulysses
Authors: Spoo Robert 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In Writing Degree Zero Roland Banhes describes the French preterite as “the ideal instrument for every construction of a world,” and notes that “it is the unreal time of cosmogonies, myths, History and Novels.”1 He finds this verb form-the “operative sign whereby the narrator reduces the exploded reality to a slim and pure logos”-to be the special signature of historical and fictional narratives: When the historian states that the due de Guise died on December 23rd, 1588, or when the novelist relates that the Marchioness went out at five o’clock, such actions emerge from a past without substance; purged of the uncertainty of existence, they have the stability and outline of an algebra, they are a recollection, but a useful recollection, the interest of which far surpasses its duration.
“Nestor” and “Proteus”: History, Language, Intertextuality
Authors: Spoo Robert 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
For all its celebrated yea-saying, Molly Bloom’s monologue amounts to a feminine refusal of history. Although structurally the telos of Ulysses, “Penelope” is in fact the undoing of teleology and structure, an episode in which “the accent falls differently from of old,” to quote Virginia Woolf’s essay on modern fiction (which includes a discussion ofJoyce).1 According to Woolf, the Edwardian novel with its rigid causality and familiar plot sequence could not capture “life,” “the essential thing.” The accustomed rhythms of narrative were particularly unsuited to female experience, a point Woolf underscored by repeating the metaphor of the displaced accent in Orlando (1928), her spoof of conventional biographies: “[T]he truth is that when we write of a woman, everything is out of place-culminations and perorations; the accent never falls where it does with a man.”2 The female narrator of”The Mark on the Wall” (1917) is even more direct: “But how dull this is, this historical fiction! It doesn’t interest me at all.” Bored and oppressed by the usual ways of accenting the past, the narrator opts for a playful historiography of irrelevance, one less interested in Charles I than in the kinds of flowers that grew during his reign.
Denominational Studies in the Reshaping of American Religious History
Authors: Hutchison William R 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The conference for which this essay was first written carried a puckish yet deadly serious title: “The Scholarly Writing of Denominational History: An Oxymoron?” My first reaction to that query was a fairly simple negative: No, we are not in the discouraging position of struggling with an oxymoron. Thoroughgoing denominational interest is not automatically at odds with good scholarship—by which, I assume, we mean work that is critical, honest, and probing and that is not beholden to the promotional interests of a given group. In principle, at least, we should be able to treat a religious denomination with as much care and relative objectivity as historians are able to apply to anything else.
Denominations and Denominationalism: An American Morphology
Authors: Richey Russell E 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Of late, both denominational leaders and the academics who study the religious landscape have pondered the poor health of and the future prospects for mainline denominations and denominationalism. The leaders, desperate for antidotes to staunch membership losses and financial reversals, grasp for diagnoses and cures.1 For their part, scholars wonder whether American denominations and denominationalism are actually breaking up.2 They see signs thereof in the massive losses suffered by mainstream Protestantism; the alienation of members and congregations from national leadership; resultant diversion of resources away from denominational coffers into local and regional projects; the growing division within denominations between liberals and evangelicals (and the persisting division between white and black); the emergence of quasiindependent caucuses and struggle groups, each bent on pressing its agenda and capturing power; and the muting of mainstream Protestant denominations’ public voice and/or its eclipse in American society by evangelical and non-Protestant voices. Denominations, at least in their mainsteam Protestant form, seem to have lost their directions.3 Such disorientation and cataclysmic change have sufficiently worried the Lilly Endowment that it has invested millions in projects such as the conference from which these papers issue in an effort to understand and to describe mainstream American religion. The resultant enquiries, including particularly the major studies of the Disciples of Christ and of Presbyterianism,4 help us appreciate the nature and the extent of the change in mainstream Protestantism.
Denominations as Bilingual Communities
Authors: Mullin Robert Bruce 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In the year 1863, in the midst of one the bloodiest years of the American Civil War, an ecclesiastical squall erupted within the Episcopal Church concerning, of all things, who should be reckoned the true founder of the Episcopal Church. For John Henry Hopkins, Jr., writing in the Church Journal, the true patriarch of the church was Samuel Seabury, the first bishop of Connecticut. The editors of the Philadelphia-based Episcopal Recorder were equally adamant in claiming the title for William White, the first bishop of Pennsylvania.1 Incidents such as this pepper the histories of America’s religious denominational communities but usually fail to find a place either in traditional denominational historical accounts or in general American histories such as those of the Civil War. What, if any, relationship such an incident might have to the broader culture and how one might illumine the other remain unexplored.
Denominational History When Gender Is the Focus: Women in American Methodism
Authors: Schmidt Jean Miller 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
How does one think about denominational history when gender is taken seriously? Since the early 1980s, scholars have begun to recover and to interpret the histories of women in a number of Protestant denominations.1 My own work has focused on women in American Methodism, including the history of women in the predecessor bodies of the United Methodist Church and the broader American Methodist family of denominations.2 This essay attempts to use the scholarship on women in American Methodism as a case study to illustrate the fruitfulness of gender-conscious denominational history.