Selected Contributors:

Assia Djebar was born in 1936. A novelist and filmmaker, she published La Soif at twenty. Her novels reflect a concern with Arab women’s language, expressed in the language that both freed and deracinated her – French. They include La Soif (The Mischief, 1958), Femmes d’Alger (Women of Algiers in their Apartment, 1989), Fantasia: an Algerian Cavalcade (1993) and L’Amour la fantasia (1985).

Edouard Maunick is from Mauritius and has published several collections of poems in French, among them Oiseaux du Sang, Paroles pour Solder la Mer, Ensoleille vif and Fusillez-moi. He has worked as a literary director at UNESCO, Paris.

Wole Soyinka, Nigeria’s Nobel laureate, is a playwright, essayist and poet. His most recent works are The Beatification of Area Boy (1995) and The Open Sore of a Continent (1996), and his poetic collections include Idanre (1967) and Mandela’s Earth (1988). He is Woodruff Professor of the Arts at Emory University Atlanta and a fellow of the W.E. DuBois Institute, Harvard.

John Ashbery is Professor of English Literature at Bard College. He has been the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award. His new volume Wakefulness is reviewed in this issue of Stand.

Terry Eagleton is a distinguished literary critic and Marxist theorist. His most recent publications include, Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader, co-edited with Drew Milne, (1996) and The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996). He is currently Warton fellow of English Literature at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford.

J.D. McClatchy has published four collections of poems, most recently Ten Commandments (Knopf, 1988) and two collections of essays, White Paper (1989) and Twenty Questions (1998). He has edited many other books and has written four opera libretti. He is editor of The Yale Review and lives in New York City.

Mary Jo Salter’s fourth book of poems, A Kiss in Space, has just been published by Knopf. She is co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry.

Charles Tomlinson was for many years professor of English at Bristol University. His many publications include Jubilation (1995), The Door in the Wall (1992), and a recent volume of Selected Poems 1955-1977 (1997). He has also translated the Selected Poems of Attilio Bertolucci (1993) and was editor of Eros Englished: Classical Erotic Poetry in Translation from Golding to Hardy (1992).

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