Category: Volume 17 – Number 2 – January 2007
Notices
September 10, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 17, Number 2, January 2007 |
|
Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize Eligibility The Ronald Sukenick/American Book ReviewInnovative Fiction Contest is open to any writer of English who is a citizen of the United States and who has not previously published with Fiction Collective Two. Submissions may include a collection of short stories, one or more novellas, or a novel. […]
After Reading After Poststructuralism
September 10, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 17, Number 2, January 2007 |
|
David BockovenEnglish DepartmentLinn-Benton Community College bockoven@efn.org A review of: Colin Davis, After Poststructuralism: Reading, Stories and Theory. New York: Routledge, 2004. After reading the title of Colin Davis’s After Poststructuralism, my initial reaction is to ask whether the shark hasn’t been jumped once too often on a book written in the “post-theory” genre. Since at […]
The Agony of the Political
September 10, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 17, Number 2, January 2007 |
|
Department of EnglishTexas State Universityrobert.tally@txstate.edu A review of Chantal Mouffe, On the Political. London: Routledge, 2005. In On the Political, Chantal Mouffe argues that all politics, properly conceived, must be agonistic. The “political” for Mouffe names a field of struggle where contesting groups with opposing interests vie for hegemony. Rather than being the rational conversation […]
Mourning Time
September 10, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 17, Number 2, January 2007 |
|
Aimee L. Pozorski Department of English Central Connecticut State University pozorskia@ccsu.edu Review of: R. Clifton Spargo, The Ethics of Mourning: Grief and Responsibility in Elegiac Literature. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2004. R. Clifton Spargo begins The Ethics of Mourning: Grief and Responsibility in Elegiac Literature with a poignant discussion of Ruth Behar’s 1996 […]
Bill Cosby and American Racial Fetishism
September 10, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 17, Number 2, January 2007 |
|
Tim Christensen English Department Denison University christ65@msu.edu Review of: Michael Eric Dyson’s Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?New York: Basic Civitas, 2005. Ladies and gentlemen, listen to these people. They are showing you what’s wrong. People with their hat on backwards, pants down around the crack. […]
“The Exact Degree of Fictitiousness”: Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day
September 10, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 17, Number 2, January 2007 |
|
Bernard Duyfhuizen Department of English University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire pnotesbd@uwec.edu Review of: Pynchon, Thomas. Against the Day.New York: Penguin, 2006. With Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon has given us his sixth novel in the forty-three years since V. was published in 1963. With that auspicious beginning (V. won the William Faulkner Foundation […]
“I Can’t Get Sexual Genders Straight”: Kathy Acker’s Writing of Bodies and Pleasures
September 10, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 17, Number 2, January 2007 |
|
Annette Schlichter Department of Comparative Literature University of California, Irvine aschlich@uci.edu Kathy Acker entered the public stage in the 1980s as a countercultural author to emerge in the 1990s as an icon of dissident postmodern literature.1 Much of the critical literature on her complex works engages Acker’s deconstructions and re-representations of gender, the body, […]
How To Lose Your Voice Well
September 10, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 17, Number 2, January 2007 |
|
Marc Botha Department of English Studies University of Durham m.j.botha@durham.ac.uk When the conversation gets rough . . . The human impulse to talk is fundamental, whether in the form of conversation, discussion, debate, or argument. I am no exception, but whenever I participate I also find, sadly, that my attention wanders easily. I am […]
The Xenotext Experiment: An Interview with Christian Bök
September 10, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 17, Number 2, January 2007 |
|
Stephen Voyce English Department York University svoyce@yorku.ca Christian Bök was born on 10 August 1966 in Toronto, Canada. He began writing seriously in his early twenties, while earning his B.A. and M.A. degrees at Carleton University in Ottawa. He returned to Toronto in the early 1990s to study for a Ph.D. in English literature […]
Insects, Sex, and Biodigitality in Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Teknolust
September 10, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 17, Number 2, January 2007 |
|
Jussi Parikka Media Studies Humboldt University, Berlin juspar@utu.fi They are everywhere you look, bodiless brains breathing down your neck and controlling your desires. Where do they come from, how do they replicate, how can I get one, why do they look human? –Lynn Hershman Leeson, “Living Blog” Introduction: Cinematics of […]