Category: Volume 4 – Number 2 – January 1994
One or Two Ghosts for One or Two Lines
February 1, 2014 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 04, Number 2, January 1994 |
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Tan Lin tall blank zebras appear A To care. The aerogramme made a lily of necessity, stumped box, redolence ribboned far off in the glass cities I opened and closed to the dandy drawers. A colt emerged on a clotted pansy. A pan required fanning. This repose a thread files. Inside […]
Two Poems
February 1, 2014 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 04, Number 2, January 1994 |
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Judith Goldman and Lisa Jarnot One And where did the Dutch get their vocabulary? A “generation and transition” company make the water muddy. Transitional generation in company of a muddy mere formality: or was it going Dutch, in transmission to transition? A mere formality of Dutch, a merely formal vocabulary, to […]
The Fable of the Ants: Myopic Interactions in DeLillo’s Libra
January 26, 2014 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 04, Number 2, January 1994 |
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Bill Millard Department of English Rutgers University millard@zodiac.rutgers.edu “There are only two things in the world. Things that are true. And things that are truer than true.” –Weird Beard (Russell Lee Moore, a.k.a. Russ Knight), KLIF disk jockey in Libra I. Paranoias and paradigms: Who’s afraid of Don DeLillo? One of […]
Libra and the Historical Sublime
January 26, 2014 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 04, Number 2, January 1994 |
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Stephen Bernstein Department of English University of Michigan – Flint bernstein_s@crob.flint.umich.edu Aside from their humor, Don DeLillo’s novels are noted almost as frequently for their brilliant terror, manifested as a frisson at the core of contemporary existence. Frank Lentricchia comments on DeLillo’s “yoking together terror and wild humor as the essential tone of contemporary […]
The Terrorist as Interpreter: Mao II in Postmodern Context
January 26, 2014 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 04, Number 2, January 1994 |
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Peter Baker Department of English Towson State University e7e4bak@toe.towson.edu Through the issues it raises, the kind of writing style it employs, and coming as it does in a series of other novels by Don DeLillo, Mao II demands to be treated seriously in the context of postmodern work and theory. Rather than spend time […]
Raids on the Conscious: Pynchon’s Legacy of Paranoia and the Terrorism of Uncertainty in Don DeLillo’s Ratner’s Star
January 26, 2014 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 04, Number 2, January 1994 |
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Glen Scott Allen Department of English Towson State University e7e4all@toe.towson.edu “Terror: from the Latin terrere, to frighten; intense fear; the quality of causing dread; terribleness; alarm, consternation, apprehension, dread, fear, fright.” —Webster’s New Twentieth Century Dictionary “Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner […]
Editor’s Introduction
January 26, 2014 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 04, Number 2, January 1994 |
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John Unsworth Department of English University of Virginia jmu2m@virginia.edu This journal does not usually run editor’s introductions, but with this issue it enters a new phase of its existence, and that new phase deserves some comment. For more than three years, Postmodern Culture has been publishing peer-reviewed critical and creative work in a text-only […]
Anouncements & Advertisements
September 24, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 04, Number 2, January 1994 |
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Every issue of Postmodern Culture will carry notices of events, calls for papers, and other announcments, up to 250 words, free of charge. Advertisements will also be published on an exchange basis. Send anouncements and advertisements to: pmc@jefferson.village.virginia.edu Journal and Book Announcements: 1) Essays in Postmodern Culture 2) Black Ice […]
Malice: The New American Hero
September 24, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 04, Number 2, January 1994 |
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M. Daphne Kutzer Department of English State University of New York at Plattsburgh kutzerdm@splava.cc.plattsburgh.edu Malice, Directed by Harold Becker. Screenplay by Aaron Sorking and Scott Frank. Castlerock, 1993. The latest contender in the Woman as Evil Bitch Film Sweepstakes is Harold Becker’s Malice. The film is less interesting for its portrayal of the […]
Grown-Ups and Fanboys
September 24, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 04, Number 2, January 1994 |
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Kevin Harley Norwich, England P280@CPCMB.EAST-ANGLIA.AC.UK Sabin, Roger. Adult Comics: An Introduction. London and New York: Routledge, 1993. It’s a long and sordid tale, the history of adult comics. This particular hotbed of intrigue has everything for the perfect television mini-series; suspense, prejudice, passion, censorship, homophobia, Anglo-American cultural relations, exploitation of creative individuals by […]
Exaggerated History
September 24, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 04, Number 2, January 1994 |
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Susan Schultz Department of English University of Hawaii schultz@uhccvm Susan Howe, The Birth-Mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1993. Susan Howe, The Nonconformist’s Memorial. New York: New Directions, 1993. Somewhere Thoreau says that exaggerated history is poetry. — Susan Howe, “The Captivity And […]
Virtual Light
September 24, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 04, Number 2, January 1994 |
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Lance Olsen English Department University of Idaho olsen@idui1.csrv.uidaho.edu Gibson, William. Virtual Light. New York: Bantam, 1993. I. Cyberpunk 101, or: The Luminous Flesh of Giants Until now, and for no particular reason, PMC hasn’t reviewed a novel. And it seems appropriate that the first novel to be reviewed in these electronic pages […]
A Postmodern Foundation For Political Practice?
September 24, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 04, Number 2, January 1994 |
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Linda Ray Pratt Department of English University of Nebraska, Lincoln lpratt@unlinfo.unl.edu McGowan, John. Postmodernism and Its Critics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. John McGowan’s “postliberal democracy” sometimes sounds just like the place we’d like to be, and sometimes more like the place we’ve already been. To get there, we must dispose of the […]
Queer Bodies of Knowledge: Constructing Lesbian and Gay Studies
September 24, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 04, Number 2, January 1994 |
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Lynda Goldstein Department of English Pennsylvania State University lrg4@psuvm.psu.edu Abelove, Henry, Michele Anna Barale, and David M. Halperin, eds. The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, 1993. Gever, Martha, John Greyson, and Pratibha Parmar, eds. Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video. New York: Routledge, 1993. As […]
Anna Deveare Smith’s Voices at Twilight
September 24, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 04, Number 2, January 1994 |
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Gayle Wald Princeton University gwald@pucc.princeton.edu The Mark Taper Forum Production of “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992,” a work-in-progress that is part of the “On the Road: A Search for American Character” series conceived, written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith. Directed by Emily Mann. Set design by Robert Brill. Costume design by Candice Donnelly. Lighting […]
From: PMC-Talk THREAD: Silber, Strauss, and Post-Democratic Politics in the Academy (11/30/93 – 1/6/94)
September 24, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 04, Number 2, January 1994 |
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(Excerpted from the Discussion Group PMC-talk@ncsuvm, 7/92-8/92) PMC-TALK digest: postings for the period ending 11-30-93. PMC-TALK is the discussion group for the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_ (PMC-LIST). Subscription to PMC-TALK is independent of subscription to PMC-LIST; if you are not subscribed to the journal itself, and would like to be, send […]
“‘To He, I Am for Evva True'”: Krazy Kat’s Indeterminate Gender
September 24, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 04, Number 2, January 1994 |
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Elisabeth Crocker Department of English University of Virginia libby@virginia.edu (IMAGE) Like the landscape of Coconino County where he lives, the character Krazy Kat’s gender and race shift, sometimes at random, but more often as a result of his social situation. George Herriman couched his assertions about the socially constructed nature of categories like […]
Four Poems: “Ode To Woody Strode”, “Removing The Obelisk”, “Parental Guidance”, and “The Permanence Of Whim To Providence”
September 24, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 04, Number 2, January 1994 |
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Michael Gizzi Ode to Woody Strode Veteran Actor Woody Strode will appear at the 8 p.m. Saturday screening of John Ford’s “Sergeant Rutledge” at the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum’s Wells Fargo Theater. –Los Angeles Times Brother Ebon Noggin, Survival Bubba, persona non grata In the peckerwood’s head, a midden of […]
“The Geographics: Step Five” and “The Geographics: Step Six”
September 24, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 04, Number 2, January 1994 |
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Albert Mobilio The Geographics: Step Five Antennae lie buried beneath the floor because the reception is better that way. The airwaves brought us crumbs & pocket change but nothing worth diving in for. We learned whoever pounds the rock makes fire, and whoever plows the flame grows their own flaw. Instinct rode us […]
Buffalo and Marshmallows
September 24, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 04, Number 2, January 1994 |
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John Yau Buffalo and Marshmallows It’s an old glory when a toenail crocodile named Greta Gabo boasts that any tall thumb tucking pimple popper still in touch with the bottom of his atavistic roots will soon be rented out to the King of pencil Toads and his last iron […]
“Hauntings,” “Temples and Follies,” and “A Reading”
September 24, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 04, Number 2, January 1994 |
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Virginia Hooper Hauntings The hauntings laced themselves into another year, Grew into miracles and fertilized the grass. Spinning absent-mindedly, A thump and a rattle intercepting my dream, I clutched in fury to my story, And, uncertain on which side of the glass I had landed, I turned the page to the […]
One or Two Ghosts for One or Two Lines
September 24, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 04, Number 2, January 1994 |
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tall blank zebras appear A To care. The aerogramme made a lily of necessity, stumped box, redolence ribboned far off in the glass cities I opened and closed to the dandy drawers. A colt emerged on a clotted pansy. A pan required fanning. This repose a thread files. Inside the spitting rope sweeps like […]
Two Poems
September 24, 2013 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 04, Number 2, January 1994 |
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One And where did the Dutch get their vocabulary? A “generation and transition” company make the water muddy. Transitional generation in company of a muddy mere formality: or was it going Dutch, in transmission to transition? A mere formality of Dutch, a merely formal vocabulary, to be used “in company” of Dutch transmissions. […]