Contents

Chris Bongie, Exiles on Main Stream: Valuing the Popularity of Postcolonial Literature

Christy L. Burns, Postmodern Historiography: Politics and the Parallactic Method in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon

Steven Helmling, Constellation and Critique: Adorno's Constellation, Benjamin's Dialectical Image

Peter Yoonsuk Paik, Smart Bombs, Serial Killing, and the Rapture: The Vanishing Bodies of Imperial Apocalypticism

Leonard Wilcox, Baudrillard, September 11, and the Haunting Abyss of Reversal

Brad Butterfield, Reply to Leonard Wilcox

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Review Essay

Claudia Brodsky Lacour, Gullivers, Lilliputians, and the Root of Two Cultures. A review of Arkady Plotnitsky, The Knowable and the Unknowable: Modern Science, Nonclassical Thought, and the "Two Cultures."

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Reviews

Del Doughty, Materiality is the Message. A review of N. Katherine Hayles, Writing Machines. Mediawork Pamphlet. Cambridge: MIT P, 2002.

Diane Davis, Responsible Stupidity. A review of Avital Ronell, Stupidity. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2001.

Valerie Karno, The Speedy Citizen. A review of Elaine Scarry, Who Defended the Country? Elaine Scarry in a New Democracy Forum on Citizenship, National Security, and 9/11. Eds. Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers. Boston: Beacon, 2003.

Theresa Smalec, Theatres of Memory: The Politics and Poetics of Improvised Social Dancing in Queer Clubs. A review of Fiona Buckland, Impossible Dance: Club Culture and Queer World-Making. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 2002.

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Related Readings

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Notices

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