SUSAN SONTAG AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 1948–1992 MODERN CRITICS AND CRITICAL STUDIES VOLUME 22 GARLAND REFERENCE LIBRARY OF THE HUMANITIES VOLUME 1065 MODERN CRITICS AND CRITICAL STUDIES WILLIAM E.CAIN, General Editor Wellesley College ADVISORY BOARD M.H.Abrams Cornell University Charles Altieri University of California at Berkeley Jonathan Culler Cornell University Stanley Fish University of Illinois at Chicago Gerald Graff University of Illinois at Chicago Murray Krieger University of California at Irvine Richard Macksey Johns Hopkins University Steven Mailloux University of California at Irvine Edward Said Columbia University Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Columbia University SUSAN SONTAG AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 1948–1992 COMPILED BY LELAND POAGUE KATHY A.PARSONS GARLAND PUBLISHING, INC. A MEMBER OF THE TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP NEW YORK & LONDON/2000 Published in 2000 by Garland Publishing, Inc. A member of the Taylor & Francis Group 29 West 35th Street New York, NY 10001 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Copyright © 2000 by Leland Poague and Kathy A.Parsons All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Poague, Leland A., 1948– Susan Sontag: an annotated bibliography, 1948–1992/ Leland Poague, Kathy A.Parsons. p. cm. Includes indexes. ISBN 0-8240-5731-7 (alk. paper) 1. Sontag, Susan, 1933– —Bibliography. I.Parsons, Kathy A. II. Title. Z8826.45.P63 2000 [PS3569.06547] 016.818'5409–dc21 99–33532 CIP The authors and publisher are especially grateful to Susan Sontag for granting permission to quote at length from her copyrighted works. ISBN 0-203-90175-4 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-90179-7 (Adobe eReader Format) Contents Preface vi Acknowledgments xiv Publisher Abbreviations xviii Introduction xx PART ONE: PRIMARY WORKS SECTION A Books, Collections, Etc. 2 SECTION B Essays, Articles, and Review Essays 102 SECTION C Short Fictions 158 SECTION D Reviews, Forewords, and Prefaces 168 SECTION E Films and Recordings 188 SECTION F Interviews 204 SECTION G Juvenilia and Miscellaneous 230 PART TWO: SECONDARY WORKS SECTION H Book Chapters, Essays, and Review Articles 250 SECTION I Dissertations, Books, and Monographs 309 SECTION J Reviews 337 SECTION K Miscellaneous 378 Index of Authors 411 Index of Titles 424 Preface Just as Susan Sontag’s creative output is varied, complex, and unique, so are the processes and guidelines we employed to research and compile this bibliography of her works and their reception. By way of explaining some of these complexities, this preface is arranged into two main parts. In the first, we briefly recount the history of our research and describe the general guidelines that were applied throughout. The second part addresses more specific bibliographic issues pertaining to individual sections of the bibliography; here we explain such special interpretations of our general guidelines as individual sections, by virtue of media or genre or editorial considerations, frequently required. Researching so prolific a writer as Sontag proved to be an amazingly time- consuming, sometimes frustrating, yet always fascinating and rewarding activity. We used traditional sources of information as well as nontraditional and newly emerging research technologies. In fact, when this research project started, in 1982, computerized information sources were just becoming readily available to humanities scholars. In 1999, however, bibliographic databases are quite common; “hard copy” or paper-copy information is the more endangered data source nowadays. The types of sources we consulted are as varied as Sontag’s many genres, topics, and publication venues. We used indexing and abstracting tools in both print and computerized versions; bibliographies on literature, art, and women writers; various “books in print” and national library compendiums, and so on. During the course of our research, we reviewed more than 170 index or bibliographic sources, far too many to list. Standard sources of information we consulted included the MLA International Bibliography, Dissertation Abstracts, Index Translationum, Humanities Index, Book Review Index, Art Index, Philosopher’s Index, and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index. In addition, we utilized computerized union catalogues—OCLC, RLIN, eventually FirstSearch and WorldCat—and also indexes pertaining to foreign language periodicals and books, such as Romanische Bibliographie, Indice español de humanidades, Bulletin signalétique, French XX, among others. A source we did not systematically attend to was daily newspapers, with the obvious exception of the New York Times. (All citations to the Times refer to the Late City edition available via University Microfilms.) vii We also gathered information about Sontag via less formal or official channels. Over the years, friends, family members, and colleagues often sent clippings or references. Likewise, many pieces of information were gathered serendipitously; we often stumbled across a new item while locating another we had already been directed to. In the summer of 1992, moreover, we wrote to national libraries worldwide inquiring about translations of Sontag’s works. In addition, we profited immensely from the assistance of Susan Sontag herself. In response to draft versions of our list, she graciously sent us copies of her own “Publication History,” in both 1994 and 1998. Sontag’s lists, we should note, cover material written, sold, translated, and solicited, and include a considerable number of incomplete entries; given the vagaries of international periodical publication, this is hardly surprising. (Sontag’s list does not include films or recordings.) Indeed, Sontag’s account of her pre-1994 material is considerably expanded in the 1998 version of her list. Her lists and ours alike, therefore, are works very much in (retrospective) progress. The bibliography covers materials written by Sontag and about Sontag from 1948 through 1993, with some exceptions and qualifications. Because we shut down the research machinery in 1992, as explained below, our “comprehensiveness” extends only through (roughly) 1990, the point in “publication time” most mid-1992 indexes and databases had reached at that juncture. We stopped active research in 1992 when it became distressingly clear that we would be pushed to our limits (and to the page count limitations urged on us by the publisher) just to annotate the materials found to date. Since 1992, then, we have directed our energies chiefly to writing annotations, though we have made a point of revisiting major index sources on occasion just in case they included new Sontag-related items that required our attention. Sometimes they did. And we continued to follow leads to other materials if they fell within our time frame. The major exception to the research stoppage involves The Volcano Lover, published to wide acclaim in 1992. Given the novel’s impact, and Sontag’s assistance when it came to updating our list of her other works, we thought it would be a great mistake to exclude it. We have thus endeavored to track its reception by reviewers and critics— translations of it, too—through 1993, though our coverage of The Volcano Lover is obviously less extensive than of Sontag’s other books. Throughout this project, we have made every attempt to gain “hands on” access to all items to verify their existence or provenance and the accuracy of our bibliographic data. By “hands on,” we mean either that one of us or one of the many people who assisted us saw the piece and verified publication data. During the initial phases of the project, Dr. Poague spent weeks amounting to months at the Library of Congress. He also visited Columbia University and North Hollywood High School. Material not acquired in these or subsequent research expeditions and not available in the Iowa State University Library was requested through interlibrary loan. In doing so, we always asked for title pages or periodical mastheads in order to confirm publication data. In numerous cases, viii our only confirmation was the fact that the item arrived as ordered, on the basis of the data we’d provided. (We have made many judgment calls about how and when to mark these uncertainties.) If we could not obtain a piece, but were convinced of its existence and pertinence, we have included it and marked its entry number with an asterisk. Likewise, items we did acquire but for which the bibliographic data was in some significant way doubtful are also marked with an asterisk. Obviously, items we did not see could not be more than minimally annotated. Our primary guide to bibliographic style was The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th edition. In general, we have carefully followed its guidelines, though we have adopted some few variant practices. Because of the number of items we acquired or found reference to, we opted for the shortest entry-style possible. We have abbreviated months in periodical entries, have gone “short” on page numbers, and have shortened or abbreviated publisher names. (In some few cases, material was obtained from clipping files; we were not always successful in providing page numbers.) For foreign publisher names, we have used the abbreviations employed by Index Translationum. We discuss abbreviations and their rationale under separate heading. We wrote annotations with two goals in mind. The first was to provide prospective readers with a picture or map of the item in question. The longer the work, the more difficult this became, but also, we thought, the more useful. The second goal was to provide a memory aid for those readers who had already encountered a given item, both to assist in recall and to suggest an analytical framework wherein those recollections might make more thorough or cumulative sense.