S U M M E R V O L U M E 5 7 N U M B E R 2. l i t e r a t u r e T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F W I S C O N S I N P R E S S

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1 S U M M E R V O L U M E 5 7 N U M B E R 2 con tem por ary l i t e r a t u r e T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F W I S C O N S I N P R E S S

2 E X E C U T I V E E D I T O R Thomas Schaub, University of Wisconsin Madison E D I T O R S E D I T O R F O R P O E T R Y Timothy Yu, University of Wisconsin Madison E D I T O R F O R A M E R I C A N F I C T I O N Michael LeMahieu, Clemson University E D I T O R F O R B R I T I S H A N D A N G L O P H O N E F I C T I O N Yogita Goyal, University of California, Los Angeles A S S O C I A T E E D I T O R S P O E T R Y Alan Golding, University of Louisville Adalaide Morris, University of Iowa A M E R I C A N F I C T I O N Steven Belletto, Lafayette College Jessica Pressman, San Diego State University B R I T I S H A N D A N G L O P H O N E F I C T I O N Elizabeth S. Anker, Cornell University David James, Queen Mary, University of London B O O K R E V I E W E D I T O R S P O E T R Y Timothy Yu, University of Wisconsin Madison A M E R I C A N F I C T I O N Heather Houser, University of Texas at Austin B R I T I S H A N D A N G L O P H O N E F I C T I O N Janice Ho, University of Colorado, Boulder E D I T O R I A L S T A F F M A N A G I N G E D I T O R Mary Mekemson E D I T O R I A L A N D A D M I N I S T R A T I V E A S S O C I A T E Eileen R. Ewing E D I T O R I A L A S S I S T A N T S Dominique Bourg Hacker Lewis Freedman Laura Hahn Lisa Hollenbach

3 B O A R D O F E D I T O R I A L C O N S U L T A N T S Charles Altieri, University of California, Berkeley Rita Barnard, University of Pennsylvania Michael Bérubé, The Pennsylvania State University Timothy Bewes, Brown University Leslie Bow, University of Wisconsin Madison Judith Brown, Indiana University Sarah Brouillette, Carleton University Robert J. Corber, Trinity College Michael Davidson, University of California, San Diego Aparna Dharwadker, University of Wisconsin Madison Susan Stanford Friedman, University of Wisconsin Madison Thomas Gardner, Virginia Polytechnic and State University Simon Gikandi, Princeton University Aida Levy-Hussen, University of Wisconsin Madison Linda Hutcheon, University of Toronto Elaine M. Kauvar, Baruch College, CUNY Lynn Keller, University of Wisconsin Madison Heather Love, University of Pennsylvania John Marx, University of California, Davis Brian McHale, The Ohio State University Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky Aldon Nielsen, The Pennsylvania State University Patrick O Donnell, Michigan State University Tejumola Olaniyan, University of Wisconsin Madison Rafael Pérez-Torres, University of California Los Angeles Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University Brian Reed, University of Washington Eric Selinger, DePaul University Joseph Tabbi, University of Illinois Chicago Nirvana Tanoukhi, University of Wisconsin Madison Keith Tuma, Miami University Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Rutgers University Steven Weisenburger, Southern Methodist University

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5 CO NTENTS J E F F R E Y J. W I L L I A M S 165 An Interview with Mark McGurl C O U R T N E Y T H O R S S O N 184 Foodways in Contemporary African American Poetry: Harryette Mullen and Evie Shockley F R E D E R I C K D. K I N G A N D A L I S O N L E E 216 Bibliographic Metafiction: Dancing in the Margins with Alasdair Gray S A N D H Y A S H E T T Y 245 War Doctors: Toward a Postnational Ethics of Hospitality in Michael Ondaatje s Anil s Ghost REVIEWS E R I C K E E N A G H A N 284 American Poetry and Physics in the Atomic Age

6 J O S E P H I N E D. L E E 292 The Ambiguous and the Mundane: Racial Performance and Asian Americans C O N T R I B U T O R S 301

7 SUMMER 2016 CON TEM POR ARY LITERATURE VOLUME 57 NUMBER 2 THE OF UNIVERSITY WISCONSIN PRESS

8 Ved Chirayath MARK MCGURL