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Introduction [excerpt] In this paper, I will examine the reception histories of Ice-Candy-Man and Nervous Conditions, the major nationalist and feminist theories that have influenced the criticism of the novels, and the scholarship's emphasis on the political in the novels to show how, so far, the literary questions of genre and form have been ignored in favor of the political. Next, I will critically look at the historical background of the...