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Volume XXXIX (2006)
Number 1 (spring)
A Perilous Performance: Aestheticizing Fetishism in Trilby
Megan Early Alter
Animal Elegies, Anti-Elegies, and Some Recent Transformations of a Genre
John Vickery
"Following in the Footsteps of Che": Political Tourism as a Strategy for Entering and Leaving Modernity
Maureen Moynagh
Queering the Drug Diary: Go Ask Alice and its Victorian Genealogies
Susan Zieger
"Unburying the Dead": Defining a Poetics of Trauma in Yusef Komunyakaa's Poetry of Vietnam and the American South
Daniel Cross Turner
Narrative Community, Community Narrative: (Anti-) Academic Discourse in Gordon Henry Jr.'s The Light People
David Stirrup
Review of Manuel Cabada Gomez,
Don Quijote de risa al grave
Maria Carmen Ruiz de la Cierva
Review of Thomas L. Jeffers, Apprenticeships: The Bildungsroman from Goethe to Santayana
Stella Bolaki
Review of Walter Benn Michaels, The Shape of the Signifier
Michael Conlon
Number 2 (summer)
London A to Z: Tourism and the Imperial Metropolis
Troy Boone
Modes of Literary Impressionism
Richard M. Berrong
James Schuyler’s Pastoral Poetics
Don Adams
The Art of Stereotyping: How Ralph Ellison Made Ernest Hemingway Black
Leslie Shimotakahara
Making Use of the Past in Things Fall Apart
Oliver Lovesey
You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town and the Counter-Ethnography of the Banal
Saikat Majumdar
Othered Writers, Other Forms: Biomythography and Automythography
Karen Weekes
Review of Karin Cope, Passionate Collaborations: Learning to Live With Gertrude Stein
Heather Cass White
Review of Mark T. Conrad, ed. The Philosophy of Film Noir
William B. Covey
Miriam Fuchs, The Text is Myself: Women’s Life Writing and Catastrophe
Timothy Dow Adams
Number 3 (fall): Asian American Subgenres 1853-1945 Part I
Edited by Hsuan L. Hsu
Introduction: Periodization, Race, and Asian American Sub-Genres
Hsuan L. Hsu
American Orientalisms:
"A Total Want of That Elegant Symmetry": The Role of Pseudoscience in Bayard Taylor's Travels through China, 1853-1855
John R. Haddad
Imagined Territories: Comparative Racialization and the Accident of History in Wong Kim Ark
Hoang Phan
Genre and Geography, or, With Perry in Japan
Sheila Hones
Spectacles of Citizenship and Civility: Arnold Genthe and the Photography of Chinatown
Thy Phu
Writing Asian American Lives:
Wong Chin Foo's Periodical Writing and Chinese Exclusion
Hsuan L. Hsu
A Slightly-Open Door: Yone Noguchi and the Invention of English Haiku
Edward Marx
A Filipino Woman in America: The Life and Work of Encarnacion Alzona
Catherine Ceniza Choy
Re-Scripting the Asian-American Subject: Constructions of Authorship in New Il Han and Younghill Kang
Leif Sorenson
"A Korean Appeal to America": Dosan Ahn Chang-ho and the L.A. Riots
Christine Hong
Number 4 (winter): Asian American Subgenres 1853-1945 Part II
Edited by Hsuan L. Hsu
Asian American Fictions:
Chinese Exclusion Fiction and Global Histories of Race: H.T. Tsiang and Theodore Dreiser, 1930
Richard Jean So
Traveling Genres and the Failure of Asian American Short Fiction
Timothy Yu
The Sino-Japanese Conflict of Asian American Literature
Colleen Lye
Community Subgenres:
Little Brown Students and the Homoerotics of "White Love"
Victor Mendoza
S.I. Hsiung's Lady Precious Stream and the Global Circulation of Peking Opera as a Modernist Form
Shuang Shen
Chinatown Vernacular Verses: A Popular Genre in the (Trans)Formation of a Chinese American Community
Zhou Xiaojing
The Four Immigrnants Manga and the Making of Japanese Americans
Mayumi Takada
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Review of Karen Leong, The China Mystique: Pearl S. Buck, Anna Mae Wong, Mayling Soong, and the Transformation of American Orientalism
Kimberly Jew
Review of Colleen Lye, America's Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945
Arnold Pan
Xiaojing Zhou and Samina Najmi, eds, Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature
Wenxin Li
Keith Lawrence and Floyd Cheung, eds, Recovered Legacies: Authority and Identity in Early Asian American Literature
Hua Hsu
Volume XXXVIII (2005)
Numbers 1 & 2
(spring/summer)
Georgic Inquisitiveness, Pastoral
Meditation, Romantic Reflexivity: “Nutting” and the Figure of
Wordsworth as Poet
Jack Vespa
Freud’s Menagerie
Dana Seitler
“Here Again is the Usual
Door”: The Modernity of Virginia Woolf’s Street Haunting
Randi Saloman
Peter Matthiessen’s Sal Si Puedes:
In America with Cesar Chavez
James G. Watson
The Melancholy Archive: José
Saramago’s All the Names
Jonathan Boulter
Beloved Mentors: Seamus Heaney’s
Poems of Vocation
John Boly
Review of Giorgio Agamben, State of
Exception
Leland de la Durantaye
Review of Mark Conroy, Muse in the
Machine: American Fiction and Mass Publicity
Anne Longmuir
Number 3 (fall): Circulating America
I
Edited by Patricia Ventura
Introduction
Patricia Ventura
Why
‘We’ Lovehate ‘You’
Paul Smith
Cosmopolitanism,
America
,
and the Welfare State
Bruce Robbins
Global
Irony: Politics inside Globalization inside Americanization
Russ Castronovo
The
Americanization of Yoga? Understanding Intellectual Property Rights in the
Context of Global Capitalism
Caren Irr
The
Pretty Woman Goes Global: Or, Learning to Love ‘Americanization’ in Notting Hill
Phillip E. Wegner
Number 4 (winter):
Circulating America
II
Edited by Patricia Ventura
A New
‘
Marshall
’
Plan: Terrorism, Globalization, Blockbusters, and Air Force One
Patricia Ventura
The
Family and the State: A Long-Term Political Relationship
Elaine Tyler May
Vampire
Capitalism: Globalization, Race, and the Postnational Body in Blade
Hamilton
Carroll
On
Returning: “
America
”
in The Fifth Element and Kal Ho Naa Ho
Edward K. Chan
Adaptation
and
Americas
Studies
Susan Gillman
Culture,
Patriotism, and the Habitus of a Discipline; or, What Happens to American
Studies in a Moment of Globalization?
Susan Hegeman
Volume XXXVII (2004)
Number 1 (spring): Blues
Notes: Toward a New Jazz Discourse [Part One]
Edited by Mark Osteen
Introduction: Blue Notes
Toward a New Jazz Discourse
Mark Osteen
Tracing that Pentecostal
Feeling: Jazz and the Sanctified Church
Douglas Field
Jazz Songbooks and the
Modernist Tradition
Michael Coyle
"Eternal Jazz": Jazz
Historiography and the Persistence of the Resurrection Myth
John P. McCombe
Playing at the Nth Note: John
Coltrane and Proliferation
Tamas Dobozy
Improvisation as Idiomatic,
Ethic and Harmolodic
Timothy S. Murphy
Titling Jazz: On the Front
Cover of Blue Note Records
Philippe Carrard
Number 2 (summer): Blue
Notes: Toward a New Jazz Discourse [Part Two]
Edited by Mark Osteen
The Performance of Jazz
Autobiography
Daniel Stein
Jazz and Surrealism in
Twentieth-Century Spanish Poetry
Gregory C. Stallings
The Cultural Matrix of Ragtime
in James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
A. Timothy Spaulding
The Seven League Boots: Albert Murray's "Swing"
Poetics
Roberta Maguire
"So Black, So Blue":
Ralph Ellison, Louis Armstrong, and the Bebop Aesthetic
Michael Borshuk
The Jazz Harmonies of
Connection and Disconnection in "Sonny's Blues"
Susanna Lee
Retuning the Critical
Instrument: André Hodeir's The Worlds of Jazz
Ken Husbands
The Language of the Other:
Jacques Derrida Interviews Ornette Coleman
Translated by Timothy S. Murphy
Play--The First Name
Jacques Derrida
Translated by Timothy S. Murphy
Review of Alfred Appel, Jr., Jazz
Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce
Mark Osteen
Review of David Butler, Jazz
Noir: Listening to Music from Phantom Lady to The Last Seduction
Krin Gabbard
Review of Nicholas Gebhardt, Going
for Jazz: Musical Practices and American Ideology
Nicholas M. Evans
Review of Patrick Neate, Twelve
Bar Blues
Jon Panish
Numbers 3 & 4
(fall/winter)
Wittgenstein and Pain: Sociological
Consequences
Antonio Negri
Translated by Timothy S. Murphy
Wittgenstein and Pain: Two
Clarifications
Joshua Wilner
Some Literary Uses of the Manual
Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
Gothic Panoptics and the Persistence of Torturous Enjoyment,
1764-1820
Dale Townshend
An ‘imperceptible infusion’
of Blood: Iola Leroy, Racial Identity, and Sentimental Discourse
Lori Robison
From the
Shameful Order of Virility: Autobiography After Colonialism
Timothy Bewes
Are Memoirs Autobiography? A
Consideration of Genre and Public Identity
Julie Rak
Boundaries
and Frontiers: Metaphor and the Rhetoric of Interdisciplinarity in Literary
Studies
Lyn Bennett
Review of Jason Read, The
Micropolitics of Capital: Marx and the Prehistory of the Present
Ken Kawashima
Review of Brett Neilson, Free Trade
in the
Bermuda
Triangle… and Other Tales
of Counterglobalization
Michael Cucher
Review of Elizabeth Louise Thomas, Emmanuel
Levinas: Ethics, Justice, and the Human Beyond Being
Daniel Darvay
Errata list to Genre Vol.XXXVI,
numbers 1-2 (spring/summer 2003)
Volume XXXVI (2003)
Numbers 1 & 2
(spring/summer)
Chaucer's Wolf: Exemplary
Violence in The Physician's Tale
John Pitcher
Female Criminality in Henry
Goodcole's Murder Pamphlets
David Stymeist
The Politics of Alexander
Pope's Urbanity
Jason D. Solinger
Lyric ritual and narrative
myth in Russian modernism: The case of Viacheslav Ivanov
Robert Bird
Representing "a sort of
composite person": Autobiography, Sexuality, and Collaborative Authorship
in H.D.'s Prose and Scrapbook
Lara Vetter
"The World Has Been
Remade": Gender, Genre, and the Blitz in Graham Greene's The Ministry
of Fear
Kristine Miller
Reading Clarice Lispector with
Julia Kristeva: Four Short Stories from Family Ties
Grady C. Wray
Dreams of Decorum: John
Ashbery's Manners
Luke Carson
Drawing on Tradition:
Translation, Martial Arts, and Japanese Anime in
America
Kenneth Hodges
Review of Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, Angelic
Airs, Subversive Songs: Music as Social Discourse in the Victorian Novel
R. Michelle Lee
Review of Roy Grundmann, Andy
Warhol's Blow Job
Scott Duguid
Numbers 3 & 4
(fall/winter): Globalization and the Image
Edited by Kurt Koenigsberger
Of Blind Men and Elephants:
Globalization and the Image
Kurt Koenigsberger
Mapping Globalization or Globalizing
the Map?: Heidegger and Planetary Discourse
Michael Lang
The Intimate Sphere: National
Strategies of Mapping and Embodiment
Elena Glasberg
Irish-Mexican Solidarity and
the San Patricio Battalion Flag
Abby Bender
Wordsworth at the Panoramas:
The Sublime Spectacle of the World
Tanya Agathocleous
The Globalization of
Perspective: Geography, Ukiyo-e, and American Realist Painting
Hsuan L. Hsu
The Lost Gaze: Reflections on
the Photography of Andreas Gursky
Carsten Strathausen
Visualization Services: Stock
Photography and the Picture Industry
Matthias Bruhn
The Spectacularization of the
Building Process:
Berlin
,
Potsdamer Platz
Ute Lehrer
Globalisierungbewältigung [coming to terms with globalization]: Global
Flows and Local Loyalties in Contemporary German Cinema
Jaimey Fisher
Disciplines of the Visual: Art
History, Visual Studies, and Globalization
Keith Moxey
Volume XXXV (2002)
Number 1 (spring)
The Modal Roots of
Environmentalism: Pastoral, Prophecy, and Nature in Biblical and Early Romantic
Discourse
Kevin Hutchings
Annihilating the Distance:
Panoramas and The Conquest of
Mexico
,
1822-1848
Robert D. Aguirre
Benjamin, Kracauer and
Redemptive History
Vincent P. Pecora
In the Slow Rain Crying:
Gendered Responses to Loss in Faulkner's The Unvanquished
David L. G. Arnold
Ronald Firbank's Radical
Pastorals
Don Adams
Three Faces of Ruth Rendell:
Feminism, Popular Fiction and the Question of Genre
Margaret Russett
Review of Katherine E. Kelly,
ed., The
Cambridge
Companion to Tom Stoppard
Maria Doyle
Review of Christian Moraru, Rewriting:
Postmodern Narrative and Cultural Critique in the Age of Cloning
Anne Longmuir
Review of Steve Wright, Storming
Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism
Ron Day
Number 2 (summer)
After Definitions: Genre,
Categories, and Cognitive Science
Michael Sinding
The Indecorous Virtuoso:
Margaret Cavendish's Experimental Spaces
John Shanahan
Contexts for Johnson's Dictionary
Paul Tankard
The "value of a NAME:"
The Representation of Political Economy in Maria Edgeworth's The Absentee
Saba Bahar
Erotic Bafflement and the
Lesson of Oscar Wilde
Kevin Ohi
"How Do You Describe the
Indescribable?" Representing History in Detective Fiction: The Case of
Philip Kerr's
Berlin
Noir Trilogy
Brian Diemert
Desiring Natures: The American
Adrenaline Narrative
Kristin J. Jacobson
Review of Ellen Weil and Gary
K. Wolfe, Harlan Ellison: The Edge of Forever
Joseph S. Walker
Numbers 3 & 4
(fall/winter): Prisoners Writing
Edited by Megan Sweeney
Provocations and
Possibilities: Rethinking Prisoners' Discourse
Megan Sweeney
Against the Discipline of
'Prison Writing': Toward a Theoretical Conception of Contemporary Radical
Prison Praxis
Dylan Rodriquez
From Slavery to Prison: Benjamin
Rush, Harriet Jacobs, and the Ideology of Reformative Incarceration
Doug Taylor
'They locked the door on my
meditations': Thoreau and the Prison House of Identity
Jason Haslam
Jazz in Jail: The Supplement
of the Musicians' Narratives
Barry Maxwell
Writers with Convictions:
Doing Time at Century's End
Bell
Gale
Chevigny
Fighting for Parental Rights
in Prison
Jaqueline Smith
The Cupola
Frederic Berthoff
Passage Through Prison:
Reframing Aboriginal Art
Sylvia Kleinert
Discursive Delinquency in
Leonard Peltier's Prison Writings
Deena Rymhs
"Ni miedo de la pinta, ni
miedo de la muerte": Jimmy Santiago Baca's Prison Poems
Paula M. Bruno
Legally Blind: Seeking
Alternative Literacies from Prison
Megan Sweeney
Volume XXXIV (2001)
Numbers 1 & 2 (spring/summer)
Introduction to Gilles
Deleuze's "Philosophy of the Série Noire"
Timothy S. Murphy
Philosophy of the Série
Noire
Gilles Deleuze
The Rhetorical and Narrative
Dimensions of Valdivia's Letters of Conquest
María de Jesús Cordero
Slipping the Shackles of
Subjectivity: The Narrator as Runaway in Incidents in the Life of a Slave
Girl
Mark Edelman Boren
Yeats' 'Helen Poems' and the
Conundrums of Biographically-Based Criticism
Brian Dillon
The Case of the Purloined
Genre: Breaking the Codes in Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers"
Nils Claussen
Robert Penn
Warren
's
A Place
to Come To: An
Altersroman Inspired by Dante
Linda A. Westervelt
The Black Cat Inside:
Burroughs as Unredeemed Confessant
Kelly Anspaugh
Review of Leon Surette, Pound
in Purgatory, & Michael Szalay, New Deal Modernism
Luke Carson
Review of Fawzia Afzal-Khan
& Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks, eds., The Pre-Occupation of Post-Colonial
Studies
Steven Salaita
Review of Anouar Majid, Unveiling
Traditions
Steven Salaita
Numbers 3 & 4
(fall/winter): Rock and the Condition of Postmodernity
Edited by William Richey and Kevin J.H. Dettmar
Introduction: Rock and the
Condition of Postmodernity
William Richey and Kevin J.H. Dettmar
Jameson, Baudrillard and the
Monkees
Brian Diemert
A True Story: The Expression
of Troubling Societal Values in the Music of Postmodern Rock
Walter Everett
"Candle in the Wind
1997" as an Antidote to the Social Erasure of the Public
Theodore Gracyk
The Future Is Now...and Then: Sonic
Historiography in Post-1960s Rock
Kevin Holm-Hudson
"Going Through the
Motions": The Tribute Band Phenomenon
Mark Jones
A Break in Transmission: Art,
Appropriation and Accumulation
Dominic Pettman
Why Rock and Roll Is
Better than Jazz
David R. Shumway
"Go West": The Pet
Shop Boys' Allegories and Anthems of Postimperiality
Patricia Juliana Smith
Review of David Hajdu, Positively
Fourth Street
Martin J. Jabobi
Review of J. Randy
Taraborrelli, Madonna: An Intimate Biography, & Andrew Morton, Madonna
Douglas Mao
Review of Richard Meltzer, A
Whore Just Like the Rest: The Music Writings
Timothy S. Murphy
Review of Ray Davies, Waterloo
Sunset: Stories
William Richey
Volume
XXXIII (2000)
Number 1 (spring)
Editorial Statement
Translator's
Introduction to Antonio Negri's "The European Leopardi"
Timothy S. Murphy
The
European Leopardi
Antonio Negri
Sure
Instinct: Incest, Politics and Genre in Dryden and Defoe
Tanya Caldwell
England's "Glorious 'Middle Way'": Self-Disciplinary
Self-Making and Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility
Lauren Goodlad
Nostromo as Fairy Tale Epic
Jed Rasula
Review
of Tom Cohen, Ideology and Inscription: "Cultural Studies" After
Benjamin, de Man and Bakhtin
Samira Kawash
Review
of David Punter, Gothic Pathologies: The Text, the Body and the Law
Laura Rotunno
Review
of Steve Clark, ed., Travel Writing and Empire: Postcolonial Theory in
Transit
Steven Salaita
Review
of A. Robert Lee and Gerald Vizenor, Postindian Conversations
Steven Salaita
Number 2 (summer)
A Gallery of Authors: The
Politics of Innovation and Subversion in Montpensier's Divers Portraits
Allison Stedman
Roman à Clef and the Dynamics
of Betrayal: The Case of Glenarvon
Barbara Judson
New Windows on New York: The Urban
Pastoral Vision of James Schuyler and Jane Freilicher
Timothy Gray
Britannia Waives the Rules:
National Icons Profaned in John Osborne's The Entertainer and Joe
Orton's What the Butler
Saw
Patricia Juliana Smith
Review of Srinivas Aravamudan,
Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency 1688-1804
Robert Markley
Review of Richard L. Barr, Rooms
with a View: The Stages of Community in the Modern Theater
Katherine E. Kelly
Review of Michael Hardt and
Antonio Negri, Empire
Timothy S. Murphy
Review of Ami Elad-Bouskila, Modern
Palestinian Literature and Culture
Steven Salaita
Review of Edward Said, Out
of Place: A Memoir
Steven Salaita
Numbers 3 & 4
(fall/winter):
Desert
Island
Texts
Edited by Timothy S. Murphy
Introduction
Timothy S. Murphy
Desert Island Texts—Of Grammatology
(1967) and Glas (1974) by Jacques Derrida
Jonathan Culler
Packing and Unpacking
“The Man Made of Words”—“The Man Made of Words”
(1970) by N. Scott Momaday
Robert Allen Warrior
Removing the Eggshells:
Rereading Wittgenstein on a Desert
Island—Culture
and Value (1977) by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Marjorie Perloff
The Lost America of Love: A Genealogy—The Lost America of Love (1981) by Sherman Paul
Barrett Watten
Critical
Survivors—“The Expression of Feeling in Imagination” (1994)
by Richard Moran
Charles Altieri
Cognition on a Desert Island—Cognition
in the Wild (1995) by Edwin Hutchins
N. Katherine Hayles
Island and Archive: Favorite
Contemporary Theory Texts
Vincent B. Leitch
Afterword: Hybrids of Nature
and Culture
Ronald Schleifer
Review of Walter Benjamin, The
Arcades Project
Luke Carson
Cumulative Index of Genre
Volumes I-XXXIII
Volume
XXXII (1999)
Numbers 1 & 2
(spring/summer): Chicano/a Studies--Writing Into the Future
Edited by Rudolfo Anaya and Robert Con Davis-Undiano
Introduction:
Chicano/a Studies--Writing into the Future
Robert Con Davis-Undiano
Shaman
of Words
Rudolfo Anaya
The
Body of My Work
Alberto Rios
The
Tools in the Toolbox: Representing Work in Chicana Writing
Tey Diana Rebolledo
Doing
Rhetorical Analysis--Sapogonia: The Rhetoric of Irony
B.J. Manríquez
Tongue-Tied:
Chicana Feminist Textual Politics and the Future of Chicano/Chicana Studies
Kristin Carter-Sanborn
Gaspar
Pérez de Villagrá's Memorial: Aristotelian Rhetoric and the Discourse of
Justification in a Colonial Genre
María Herrera Sobek
Whither
Aztlán? Considering a Millenial Chicano/a Studies
Rafael Pérez-Torres
The
Emergence of New World Studies: Anaya, Aztlán,
and the New Chicana
Robert Con Davis-Undiano
Number 3 (fall)
Spenser
and the Bounds of Race
Christopher Ivic
"Work
Upon That Now": The Production of Parody on the English Renaissance Stage
Heather Anne Hirshfeld
Anne
Radcliffe's The Italian in Context: Gothic Villains, Romantic Heroes, and
a New Age of Power Relations
Gary Gautier
Ruination
and Translation in William Carlos Williams
José María Rodríguez Garcia
Number 4 (winter)
Vivian
Grey and the Silver-Fork Etiquette of Authorship
Andrea Hibbard
Undomesticating
the Domestic Novel: Creole Madness in Jane Eyre
Carolyn Vellenga Berman
Making
a "Clean Break": Confession, Celebrity Journalism, Image Management
and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Crack-Up
Kirk Curnutt
The
"Arrested" Message of War in Cartucho by Nellie Campobello
Kate Peters
Review
of Jonathan Kramnick, Making the English Canon: Print-Capitalism and the
Cultural Past, 1700-1770
Richard A. Barney