VOL. 46, No. 1, 2009
Special Issue: Human Rights and Literary Forms
Guest Editors: Sophia A. McClennen and Joseph R. Slaughter
Articles
Introducing Human Rights and Literary Forms; or, The Vehicles
and Vocabularies of Human Rights
Sophia A. McClennen and Joseph R. Slaughter
The War on Terror Espionage Thriller, and the Imperialism of Human Rights
David Holloway
“Gotta Serve Somebody”: Service; Autonomy; Society
Susan Maslan
The Novel and Prejudice
Sarah Winter
The Violence of the Present: David’s Story and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Aryn Bartley
Flashforward Democracy: American Exceptionalism and the Atomic Bomb in Barefoot Gen
Christine Hong
Novel Truths: Literature and Truth Commissions
Paul Gready
Beyond the Right to Literature
Marcos Piason Natali
Book Reviews
Lynn Hunt. Inventing Human Rights
(Belinda Walzer)
James Dawes. That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity
(Daniel Listoe)
Joseph R. Slaughter. Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law
(Shashi Thandra)
Pheng Cheah. Inhuman Conditions: On Human Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights
(Claudia Sadowski-Smith)
Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith. Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition
(Ryan Mauldin)
Special Issue: Literatures and Theories of Africa
Guest Editors: Pius Adesanmi, Irène d’Almeida, and Thomas A. Hale
Articles
Consuming Subjects: Theorizing New Models of Agency for Literary Criticism in African Studies
Wendy Laura Belcher
Ben Okri, the Aesthetic, and the Problem with Theory
Sarah Fulford
The Political Prisoner as Antihero: The Prison Poetry of Wole Soyinka and ‘ahmad Fu’ad Nigm
Randa Abou-bakr
Sound Effects: Synaesthesia as Purposeful Distortion in Keorapetse Kgositsile’s Poetry
Tsitsi Jaji
From Poetry to Prose: The Modern Hausa Novel
Joanna Sullivan
Lark Mirror: African Culture, Masculinity, and Migration to France in Alain Mabanckou’s Bleu Blanc Rouge
Wandia Njoya
“What are We Blackmen Who are Called French?”: The Dilemma of Identity in Oyono’s Une vie de boy and Sembène’s La Noire de…
Louis J. Parascandola
Reading Development and Writing Africa: UNFPA, Nervous Conditions, and The Book of Not
Fawzia Mustafa
Women and War in Contemporary Love Stories from Uganda and Nigeria
Sofia Ahlberg
Book Reviews
James Currey. Africa Writes Back: The African Writers Series & the Launch of African Literature
(Joseph L. Mbele)
Donald R. Wehrs. Islam, Ethics, Revolt: Politics and Piety in Francophone West African and Maghreb Narrative
(Aaron L. Rosenberg)
Laura Rice. Of Irony and Empire: Islam, the West, and the Transcultural Invention of Africa
(Thomas A. Hale)
Christopher L. Miller.The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade
(Thomas A. Hale)
Articles
A. OWEN ALDRIDGE PRIZE WINNER 2007–2008
When Robinson Crusoe Meets Ximen Qing: Material Egoism in the First Chinese and English Novels
Ning Ma
Which Qalam for Algeria? Colonialism, Liberation, and Language in Djebar’s L’Amour, la fantasia and Mustaghanimı’s Dhkirat al-Jasad
Shaden Tageldin
Embodiment and Modernity: Ruskin, Stephen, Merleau-Ponty, and the Alps
Kevin A. Morrison
Nabokov’s Lolita and Goethe’s Faust: The Ghost in the Novel
Steven F. Walker
Book Reviews
Bella Brodzki. Can These Bones Live? Translation, Survival, and Cultural Memory
(Philip Mosley)
David Davies. Aesthetics and Literature
(Jonathan Steinwand)
Anne Lounsbery. Thin Culture, High Art: Gogol, Hawthorne, and Authorship in Nineteenth-Century Russia and America
(Elizabeth Cheresh Allen)
Robert A. Rushing.Resisting Arrest: Detective Fiction and Popular Culture
(Martina Kolb)
Andrew Slade. Lyotard, Beckett, Duras, and the Postmodern Sublime
(Ayumi Clara Ohmoto-Frederick)
Paul M. Lutzeler. Kontientalisierung. Das Europa der Schriftseller
(Azade Seyhan)
Articles
Translatio Imperii: Virgil and Peter Martyr’s Columbus
Elise Bartosik-Vélez
Of Jews and Jesuits in the Nineteenth-Century French and Spanish Feuilleton
Lou Charnon-Deutsch
Writing Madness: Deranged Impressions in Akutagawa’s Cogwheels and Strindberg’s Inferno
Mats Karlsson
Murderous Parents, Trustful Children: Reading Imre Kertész’s Fatelessness and Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow
Tamás Juhász
Book Reviews
Roger Chartier. Inscription & Erasure: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century
(Giuseppe Mazzotta)
Susan Bernstein. Housing Problems: Writing and Architecture in Goethe, Walpole, Freud, and Heidegger
(Daniel Purdy)
Stephen Shapiro. The Culture and Commerce of the Early American Novel: Reading the Atlantic World-System
(Karen A. Weyler)
William Franke. Poetry and Apocalypse: Theological Disclosures of Poetic Language
(Dorothy Z. Baker)
B. Venkat Mani. Cosmopolitical Claims: Turkish-German Literatures from Nadolny to Pamuk
(Mine Eren)