Category: Volume 9 – Number 1 – September 1998
Selected Letters from Readers
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The following responses were submitted by PMC readers using regular e-mail or the PMC Reader’s Report form. Not all letters received are published, and published letters may have been edited. Copyright (c) 1998 by the authors, all rights reserved. This text may be used and shared in accordance with the fair-use […]
IMAGING EmerAgency: A Conversation with Gregory Ulmer
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Joel Weishaus Center for Southwest Research University of New Mexico reality@unm.edu The following conversation took place over email. Along with discussing aspects of our respective biographies, we focus in on “Imaging Florida,” a project that Gregory Ulmer is working on with colleagues in the Florida Research Ensemble at the University of Florida. Imaging Florida […]
Ride the Classics ‘Coast to ‘Coast
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Department of English University of Virginia kmc2f@server2.mail.Virginia.EDU
The Therapeutic Stage/Page: Facts and Fictions about the Dead to Stir the Living
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Theresa Smalec Department of Performance Studies New York University tks201@is9.nyu.edu Peggy Phelan, Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. In Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories, Peggy Phelan takes performance and performative writing as bases from which to probe the relationship between private and public grief, and particularly the question […]
The Dyer Straits of Whiteness
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Todd M. Kuchta Department of English Indiana University tkuchta@indiana.edu Richard Dyer, White. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. “White people create the dominant images of the world and don’t quite see that they thus construct the world in their image” (9). This premise drives Richard Dyer’s White, “a study of the representation of […]
Real Virtuality: Slavoj Zizek and “Post-Ideological” Ideology
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James S. Hurley Department of English University of Richmond jhurley@richmond.edu Slavoj Zizek, The Plague of Fantasies. London: Verso, 1997. Richard Rorty has for the last several years been advising intellectuals on the left to “start talking about greed and selfishness rather than about bourgeois ideology, about starvation wages and layoffs rather than about […]
Shaping an African American Literary Canon
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Robert Elliot Fox Department of English Southern Illinois University bfox@siu.edu The Norton Anthology of African American Literature.Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay, general editors. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997. Includes an audio companion compact disc with 21 selections. Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition. […]
Another Country: Amnesia and Memory in Contemporary South Africa
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Rita Barnard Comparative Literature and Literary Theory University of Pennsylvania rbarnard@dept.english.upenn.edu Jeremy Cronin, Even the Dead: Poems, Parables, and a Jeremiad.Cape Town: David Philip, 1997. Sarah Nuttall and Carli Coetzee, eds. Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa. Oxford UP, 1998. In 1995, American Vogue published a fashion article […]
What We Talk About When We Talk About Poetry: A Recent View from St. Petersburg A Translation of Arkadii Dragomoshchenko’s “On the Superfluous”
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Evgeny Pavlov Department of Comparative Literature Princeton University evpavlov@princeton.edu Translator’s Preface “All this is familiar; still it needs to be repeated. In its very essence the decorative grid of the Chinese interior is inexhaustible. Repetitions do not exist as long as there is time. Thus non-coincidence, deviation, residue, all requiring a different approach” (“Syn/Opsis/Tax” […]
A.R. Ammons and “the only terrible health” of Poetics
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Kevin McGuirk Department of English University of Waterloo kmcguirk@watarts.uwatxerloo.ca I’m glad the emphasis these days is off dying beautifully and more on light-minded living with the real things–soap, spray-ons, soda, paper towels, etc. (Ammons, Sphere 55) It was when my little brother, who was two and a half years younger than I, died at […]
Poetics, Polemic, and the Question of Intelligibility
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Benjamin Friedlander Department of English State University of New York at Buffalo bef@acsu.buffalo.edu Why does a poet write a statement of poetics? What can readers learn from reading such statements? Rather than answer directly, I would like to turn my attention to “Wild Form”1 by Ron Silliman, a brief essay (1200 words) currently available […]
Cybernetymology and ~ethics
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Alec McHoul Media Communication and Culture Murdoch University mchoul@central.murdoch.edu.au “Norbert’s Crossing” ©1997, Alec McHoul It may very well be a good thing for humanity to have the machine remove from it the need of menial and disagreeable tasks. I do not know. –Norbert Wiener, 1947 (27) Steed: I’m playing it as a journalist, […]
The Postcolonial Bazaar: Thoughts on Teaching the Market in Postcolonial Objects
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Bishnupriya Ghosh Department of English Utah State University bishnu@cc.usu.edu What seems an eternity ago, Kwame Appiah argued that the “post” in post-colonial was a theoretical space-clearing gesture.1 His critique of the use of neotraditional artifacts in a globalized late capitalist economy has been addressed, extended, and reframed by almost all major postcolonial critics from […]
Editors’ Note
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Lisa Brawley Stuart Moulthrop Co-editors With this first issue of volume nine, we introduce a new section of Postmodern Culture expressly addressed to the relay between new media technologies and cultural practice. We’ve called this section “Traffic.” To be sure, the intersection of technology, media, and cultural theory remains a central concern of the […]