The Journal of Contemporary Thought
 Issue - 1996

Contents:

Blasphemy and Heresy : The Modernist Challenge
- Gauri Viswanathan

The Politics of Cultural Rejection : A Reading of Kennan's
" Containment " Essay
- Dilip K. Das

Miscegenation and the Rhetoric of " Blood " in
Three Turn-of-the-Century African American Novels
- Robert Nowatzki

Listening to the Mother's Voice in Toni Morrison's Jazz
- Sarah Appleton Aguiar

Social Motherhood : Charlotte Perkins
Gilman and Feminist Politics
- Naomi B. Zauderer

  
Special Section on Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Introduction
- Sura P. Rath

Rhetorical Device and Revision in Franklin D. Roosevelt's
Message to Congress, December 8, 1941
- Elaine Smith

The Legacy of FDR and the Press
- Betty Houchin Winfield

American Culture, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Winning of the NRA
- Lane Crothers

Robert Quillen : A Conservative Critic of the New Deal
- Marvin L. Cann

FDR and Postpolio Syndrome
- Ronald Byrd

  

Curriculum Wars : Pragmatism as Truce
- Steven R. Shelburne

The Ideology of Literary Criticism : The Case of Judgement,
Transcendence and Clerisy
- R. Shashidhar