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VOL. 48, No. 1, 2011
Articles
Breaking Out the Rooster Coop: Violent Crime in Aravind Adiga’s White Tiger and Richard Wright’s Native Son
Sara D. Scotland
An “Internationalism of the Planted Earth”: The Literary Origins of Bessie Head’s Idea of the Village
Eleni Coundouriotis
The Press in Novels: Credit, Power, and Mobility in William D. Howell’s Modern Instance and Lima Barreto’s Recordacoes do escrivao Isaias Caminha
Renata Wasserman
From Brecht, Artaud, and the Absurd to Sha Yexin and Gao Xingjian: Two Cases of Rapport de Fait
Thomas Y. T. Luk
Book Reviews
Africa
Josiah Blackmore. Moorings: Portuguese Expansion and the Writing of Africa
(Phillip Rothwell)
Peter McDonald. The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and Its Cultural
Consequences
(Gabeba Baderoon)
La Vinia Delois Jennings. Toni Morrison and the Idea of Africa
(Adélékè Adéèè.kóó.)
The Americas
Tamara Harvey. Figuring Modesty in Feminist Discourse Across the Americas, 1633–1700
(Mónica Díaz)
Thomas O. Beebee. Millennial Literatures of the Americas, 1402–2002
(Ralph Bauer)
Europe
Lars Eckstein, Barbara Korte, Eva Ulrike Pirker, and Christopher Reinfandt, eds.
Multi-Ethnic Britain 2000+: New Perspectives in Literature, Film, and the Arts
(Philip Mosley)
Michael O’Sullivan. The Incarnation of Language: Joyce, Proust and a Philosophy of the Flesh
(Gerald Gillespie)
Lorna Fitzsimmons, ed. International Faust Studies: Adaptation, Reception, Translation
(Ellis Dye)
Clayton Koelb. The Revivifying Word: Literature, Philosophy, and the
Theory of Life in Europe’s Romantic Age
(Nicholas Rennie)
Soledad Fox. Flaubert and “Don Quijote”: The Influence of Cervantes on
“Madame Bovary”
(Eugenio Suárez-Galbán)
Jewish Literatures
Barry Trachtenberg. The Revolutionary Roots of Modern Yiddish, 1903–1917
(Marc Caplan)
Vivian Liska. When Kafka Says We: Uncommon Communities in
German-Jewish Literature
(Sander L. Gilman)
Gil Z. Hochberg. In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination
(Deborah A. Starr)
Theory
Ernst van Alphen, Mieke Bal, and Carel Smith, eds. The Rhetoric of Sincerity
(Sinkwan Cheng)
Herschel Farbman. The Other Night: Dreaming, Writing, and Restlessness in
Twentieth-Century Literature
(Marilyn Gaddis Rose)
Barbara Dalle Pezze and Carlo Salzani, eds. Essays on Boredom and Modernity
(Brendan J. Balint)
VOL. 48, No. 2, 2011
Articles
- Owen Aldridge Prize Winner 2009–2010
The Task(s) of the Translator(s): Multiplicity as Problem in Renaissance
European Thought
Belén Bistué
Fiction as Evidence: On the Uses of Literature in Nineteenth-Century
Sexological Discourse
Anna Katharina Schaffner
Organic Hesitancies: Stuttering and Sexuality in Melville, Kesey, and Mishima
Christopher Eagle
The Ethics of Identification: The Global Circulation of Traumatic Narrative in Silko’s Ceremony and Roy’s The God of Small Things
Joanne Lipson Freed
Book Reviews
Erin Graff Zivin. The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin
American Imaginary
(Luz Angélica Kirschner)
Susan Buck-Morss. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History
(Patricia Anne Simpson)
Joseph Luzzi. Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy
(Benedetta Gennaro)
Thomas O. Beebee. Nation and Region in Modern American and European Fiction
(Trevor Barnes)
Peter Edgerly Firchow. Strange Meetings: Anglo-German Literary Encounters from 1910 to 1960
(Christiane Eydt-Beebe)
Dirk Wiemann. Genres of Modernity: Contemporary Indian Novels in English
(Sukhbir Singh)
Wayne Jeffrey Froman and John Burt Foster, eds. Dramas of Culture: Theory, History, Performance
(Mary Ann Frese Witt)
Stephen Ross, ed. Modernism and Theory: A Critical Debate
(Judith Roof)
VOL. 48, No. 3, 2011
Special Issue: “Trials of Trauma: Comparative & Global Perspectives”
Guest Editors: Bella Brodzki & Michael Levine
Articles
Introduction
Michael G. Levine and Bella Brodzki
Articles
Hannah Arendt’s Death Sentences
Judith Butler
Legal but Criminal: The Failure of the “Russian Nuremberg” and the
Paradoxes of Post-Soviet Memory
Sergey Toymensev
The Klaus Barbie Trial: Traces and Temporalities
Christian Delage
Australian Trials of Trauma: The Stolen Generations in Human Rights,
Law, and Literature
Rosanne Kennedy
“We the People,” Who? James Baldwin and the Traumatic
Constitution of These United States
Shireen R. K. Patell
In the Name of Trauma: Notes on Testimony, Truth Telling and
the Secret of Literature in South Africa
Rosalind C. Morris
Literary Justice? Poems from Guantánamo Bay Prison Camp
Elisabeth Weber
Book Reviews
Traumatic Futures: A Review Article
Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman. The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry
into the Condition of Victimhood, Roger Luckhurst. The Trauma Question,
Esther Rashkin. Unspeakable Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Culture
(Jared Stark)
VOL. 48, No. 4, 2011
Articles
ACLA Plenary
Comparative Literature/World Literature: A Discussion with David Damrosch and Gayatri Spivak
David Damrosch and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Articles
Balzacorama: Panoramic Vision in Nabokov’s Lolita
Melissa Frazier
Kalila wa Dimna: Inception, Appropriation, and Transmimesis
Marianne Marroum
Han Shan, Dharma Bums, and Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain
Ling Chung
Forum
To Translate or Not to Translate Arabic:
Michael Cooperson and Waïl S. Hassan on the
Work of Abdelfattah Kilito
Book Reviews
Citations of ACLA Prizewinning Scholarship
Jahan Ramazani. A Transnational Poetics
(Matthew Hart)
Dorothy M. Figueira. Otherwise Occupied: Pedagogies of Alterity and the Brahminization of Theory
(Anjali Prabhu)
Vilashini Cooppan. Worlds Within: National Narratives and Global Connections in Postcolonial Writing
(Elizabeth S. Anker)
Nouri Gana. Signifying Loss: Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning
(Tobias Boes)
Stefan Herbrechter and Ivan Callus, eds. Cy-Borges: Memories of the
Posthuman in the Work of Jorge Luis Borges
(Héctor Hoyos)
Janet Beizer. Thinking Through the Mothers: Reimagining Women’s Biographies
(Liedeke Plate)
Jennifer Bajorek. Counterfeit Capital: Poetic Labor and Revolutionary Irony.
(Richard Terdiman)
- S. Burt. Regard for the Other: Autothanatography in Rousseau, De Quincey, Baudelaire, and Wilde
( Yaël Schlick)
- A. Burrow. The Poetry of Praise
(Robert J. Meyer-Lee)
Konrad Eisenbichler, ed. Renaissance Medievalisms
(Sherry Roush)