Preface

1 Sallies into the Outside World: A Literary History of Jane Bowles

Jennie Skerl

2 The Narrative Erotics of Two Serious Ladies

Carolyn J. Allen

3 "The Americans Stick Pretty Much in Their Own Quarter": Jane Bowles and Central America

Stephen Benz

4 Family Dynamics in Jane Bowles's In the Summer House

Peter G. Christensen

5 Mommy Dearest: Mothers and Daughters in Jane Bowles's In the Summer House and Other Plays by Contemporary Women Writers

Charlotte Goodman

6 Sister Act: A Reading of Jane Bowles's Puppet Play

Regina Weinreich

7 Jane Bowles and the Semi-Oriental Woman

John Maier

8 Jane Bowles in Uninhabitable Places: Writing on Cultural Boundaries

Carol Shloss

9 "Some Fun in the Mud": Decrepitude and Salvation in the World of Jane Bowles

Robert E. Lougy

10 The Unfinished Jane Bowles

Gena Dagel Caponi

11 Toward a Postmodern Aesthetic: Indeterminacy, Instability, and Inconclusiveness in Out in the World

Allen E. Hibbard

Bibliography

Contributors

Index