. . . . . . . . . "Drawing on modernist novels, film, fiction, poetry, and mass media, this work features narratives of such writers and filmmakers as Gish Jen, Julie Dash, June Jordon, James Joyce, Neil Jordon, Virginia Woolf, Mira Nair, Zora Neale Hurston, E M Forster, and Irena Klepfisz." . .