POSTMODERN CULTURE

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

      (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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

    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. […]