Introduction

The View from Somewhere and the Emergence of New Voices.
        Robert Con Davis     9

Essays

Mr. Bloom Meets an Electronic Fox—The Canon in the Age of a New Technology.
        Neil Kleinman     15

Western Truth Claims in the Context of the Modern and the Postmodern Latin American Novel.
        Raymond Leslie Williams     39

Uroboric Imagery in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow.
        Michael Crumb     65

Miami Vise: Neo-Colombian Novels by Alvaro Gómez Monedero and Luis Zalamea.
        Jonathan Tittler     87

Medieval Germanic Elements in the Poetry of Jorge Louis Borges.
        Joseph Tyler     97

Christopher Columbus's Diary: First Act of Creation in the New World.
        Mirta Zidovec     107

Beryl Markham's West With the Night: A Study in Forensic Autobiography.
        Elizabeth S. Bell     119

Personal Authority Made Public: Personal Relationships and Audience Awareness.
        Vincent Casaregola     13

Reading "Through the Eyes of the Other": Self, Identity, and the Other in the Works of Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Audre Lorde.
        AnnLouise Keating     161

Unexplored Realms of Gold: Teaching Travel Literature.
       Stephen E. Tabachnick     187

Galleria

A Bewildering Occupation: Working the Rebellious Flesh of Pre-Columbian Myths.
       Flor Romero     211

Poetry

Neon blue into purple bloom the Jacarandas.
        Nancy Henderson     219

Sunday's Art of Mowing.
       Nancy V. Henderson     221

Watermelonlover.
       Nancy V. Henderson     224

Professional Announcements and Calls for Papers     226
Notes on Contributors     231
Cover: Untitled (1993) by Armando Aragón.