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PARTISAN REVIEW
No one can accuse Alice Walker of a failure of nerve-which
may be why
The Color Purple
has meant so much more to American
readers of fiction, the majority of whom are still women, than have
the recent novels of Roth, Bellow, and Heller. For the sake of those
contraries without which there is no progression,
I
would rather
have manist writers bare their fangs than hide behind a sheepish
grin. They can be sure that womanist writers will no longer pucker
up, whatever the manists do .
Coming in
PARTISAN REVIEW
• Selections from the
Memoires
of Raymond Aron
• Steven Marcus on George Orwell
• Maura Daly:
An
Interview with Michel Tournier
• John Elderfield on contemporary art and modern memory
• Mary Lefkowitz on Michel Foucault
• Jeffrey Hart: Reflections on Pornography
• Peter Berger on Western individuality
• Andre Malraux: A Remembrance of Meeting Leon Trotsky
• Lionel Abel on the idea of the avant-garde
• Stanislaw Baranczak on Czeslaw Milosz
