Editor's Note | p. vii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Rhetoric, Sanity, and the Cold War: The Significance of Holden Caulfield's Testimony | p. 5 |
"The World Was All Before Them": Coming of Age in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Weep Not, Child and J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye | p. 21 |
Go West, My Son | p. 37 |
Hyakujo's Geese, Amban's Doughnuts and Rilke's Carrousel: Sources East and West for Salinger's Catcher | p. 45 |
Cherished and Cursed: Toward a Social History of The Catcher in the Rye | p. 63 |
The Catcher in the Rye as Postwar American Fable | p. 89 |
Holden Caulfield's Legacy | p. 105 |
The Boy That Had Created the Disturbance: Reflections on Minor Characters in Life and The Catcher in the Rye | p. 115 |
Holden Caulfield: A Love Story | p. 123 |
Catcher in the Corn: J. D. Salinger and Shoeless Joe | p. 131 |
Mentor Mori; or, Sibling Society and the Catcher in the Bly | p. 151 |
Memories of Holden Caulfield-and of Miss Greenwood | p. 167 |
The Zen Archery of Holden Caulfield | p. 183 |
Chronology | p. 191 |
Contributors | p. 195 |
Bibliography | p. 199 |
Acknowledgments | p. 205 |
Index | p. 207 |
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