Volume 04, Number 2, January 1994

Editor’s Introduction

John Unsworth

DeLillo Cluster
Guest editors: Glen Scott Allen and Stephen Bernstein

 

Raids on the Conscious: Pynchon’s Legacy of Paranoia and the Terrorism of Uncertainty in Don DeLillo’s Ratner’s Star

Glen Scott Allen

The Terrorist as Interpreter: Mao II in Postmodern Context

Peter Baker

Libra and the Historical Sublime

Stephen Bernstein

The Fable of the Ants: Myopic Interactions in DeLillo’s Libra

Bill Millard

Poetry Cluster
Guest editor: Tan Lin

“Two Poems”

Judith Goldman and Lisa Jarnot

“One or Two Ghosts for One or Two Lines”

Tan Lin

Three Poems: “Hauntings”, “Temples and Follies”, “A Reading”.

Virginia Hooper

“Buffalo and Marshmallows”

John Yau

Two Poems: “The Geographics: Step Five” and “The Geographics: Step Six”

Albert Mobilio

Four Poems: “Ode To Woody Strode”,  “Removing The Obelisk”,  “Parental Guidance”, and “The Permanence Of Whim To Providence”

Michael Gizzi

Popular Culture Column

“To He, I am For Evva True”: Krazy Kat’s Indeterminate Gender (Hypermedia)

Elisabeth Crocker

PMC Talk-Thread

Silber, Strauss, and Post-Democratic Politics in the Academy

Review Essays

“Anna Deveare Smith’s Voices at Twilight” Review of The Mark Taper Forum Production of “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992”

Gayle Wald

“Queer Bodies of Knowledge: Constructing Lesbian and Gay Studies” Review of Henry Abelove, Michele Anna Barale, and David M. Halperin, eds. The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader and Martha Gever, John Greyson, and Pratibha Parmar, eds. Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video

Lynda Goldstein

“A Postmodern Foundation for Political Practice?” Review of John McGowan Postmodernism and Its Critics

Linda Ray Pratt

“Virtual Light” Review of William Gibson Virtual Light

Lance Olsen

“Exaggerated History” Review of Susan Howe The Birth-Mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History and The Nonconformist’s Memorial

Susan Schultz

“Grown-Ups and Fanboys” Review of Sabin, Roger Adult Comics: An Introduction

Kevin Harley

“Malice: The New American Hero” Review of Malice

M. Daphne Kutzer

Notices