Volume 09, Number 1, September 1998

Editors’ Note

Articles

The Postcolonial Bazaar: Thoughts on Teaching the Market in Postcolonial Objects

Bishnupriya Ghosh

Cybernetymology and ~ethics

Alec McHoul

Poetics, Polemic, and the Question of Intelligibility

Benjamin Friedlander

A.R. Ammons and “the only terrible health” of Poetics

Kevin McGuirk

What We Talk About When We Talk About Poetry: A Recent View from St. Petersburg–A Translation of Arkadii Dragomoshchenko’s “On the Superfluous”

Evgeny Pavlov

Reviews

“Another Country: Amnesia and Memory in Contemporary South Africa” A review of Jeremy Cronin, Even the Dead: Poems, Parables, and a Jeremiad and Sarah Nuttall and Carli Coetzee, eds, Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa

Rita Barnard

“Shaping an African American Literary Canon” A review of The Norton Anthology of African American Literature and Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition

Robert Elliot Fox

“Real Virtuality: Slavoj Zizek and ‘Post-Ideological’ Ideology” A review of Slavoj Zizek, The Plague of Fantasies

James S. Hurley

“The Dyer Straits of Whiteness.” A review of Richard Dyer, White

Todd M. Kuchta

“The Therapeutic Stage/Page: Facts and Fictions about the Dead to Stir the Living” A review of Peggy Phelan, Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories

Theresa Smalec

Traffic

Ride the Classics ‘Coast to ‘Coast

Kelly Cresap

IMAGING EmerAgency: A Conversation With Gregory Ulmer

Joel Weishaus

Letters