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Editor's Note vii

Introduction Harold Bloom 1

Rhetoric, Sanity, and the Cold War: The Significance of Holden Caulfield's Testimony Alan Nadel 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 Sandra W. Lott Steven Latham 21

Go West, My Son Sanford Pinsker 37

Hyakujo's Geese, Amban's Doughnuts and Rilke's Carrousel: Sources East and West for Salinger's Catcher Dennis McCort 45

Cherished and Cursed: Toward a Social History of The Catcher in the Rye Stephen J. Whitfield 63

The Catcher in the Rye as Postwar American Fable Pamela Hunt Steinle 89

Holden Caulfield's Legacy David Castronovo 105

The Boy That Had Created the Disturbance: Reflections on Minor Characters in Life and The Catcher in the Rye John McNally 115

Holden Caulfield: A Love Story Jane Mendelsohn 123

Catcher in the Corn: J. D. Salinger and Shoeless Joe Dennis Cutchins 131

Mentor Mori; or, Sibling Society and the Catcher in the Bly Robert Miltner 151

Memories of Holden Caulfield-and of Miss Greenwood Carl Freedman 167

The Zen Archery of Holden Caulfield Yasuhiro Takeuchi 183

Chronology 191

Contributors 195

Bibliography 199

Acknowledgments 205

Index 207