CONTENTS 

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Arturo Arias, Constructing Ethnic Bodies and Identities in 
Miguel Angel Asturias and Rigoberta Menchu

Judith Butler and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, A Dialogue 
on Global States, 6 May 2006 (not available in text-only 
version)

Melinda Cooper, The Unborn Born Again: Neo-Imperialism, The 
Evangelical Right, and the Culture Of Life

Karen L. Kopelson, Radical Indulgence: Excess, Addiction, 
and Female Desire

Hong-An Truong, The Past is a Distant Colony | 
Explosions in the Sky: two videos (not available in 
text-only version), with an introduction by Viet Nguyen, 
Seeing Double: The Films of Hong-An Truong


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                      Reviews
 
Bill Freind, After the Author, After Hiroshima. A 
review of Araki Yasusada, _Also, With My Throat, I Shall 
Swallow Ten Thousand Swords: Araki Yasusada's Letters in 
English_. Eds. Kent Johnson and Javier Alvarez. Cumberland: 
Combo, 2005.

Theresa Smalec, Not What it Seems: The Politics of 
Re-Performing Vito Acconci's Seedbed (1972). A review of 
Marina Abramovic's _Seedbed_. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 
New York. 10 November 2005.

Michael Mirabile, History and Schizophrenia. A 
review of Sande Cohen, _History Out of Joint: Essays 
on the Use and Abuse of History_. Johns Hopkins UP, 2006.

Jehanne-Marie Gavarini, In the Still of the Museum: 
Jean-Luc Godard's Sixty-Year Voyage. A review of _Voyage(s) 
en Utopie, Jean-Luc Godard 1946-2006, In Search of Lost 
Theorem_. Paris: Pompidou Center, 11 May-14 August 2006.

D. Harlan Wilson, Stylistic Abstraction and Corporeal 
Mapping in _The Surrogates_. A review of Robert Venditti 
and Brett Weldele, _The Surrogates_. Issues 1-5. Marietta: 
Top Shelf Productions, 2006.


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                         Abstracts

Arturo Arias, Constructing Ethnic Bodies and Identities 
in Miguel Angel Asturias and Rigoberta Menchu

Abstract: This essay is concerned with explaining the 
ethnic and gender contradictions in Guatemala as 
represented in two books, I, Rigoberta Menchu and Mulata, 
that are emblematic of this country's two Nobel laureates, 
Miguel Angel Asturias (1967 Nobel Prize for literature) 
and Rigoberta Menchu (1992 Nobel Peace Prize). The essay 
argues that both writers articulate a politics beholden 
neither to the nation-state nor to transnational politics, 
but rather reorganize the ethnic question altogether 
through a process of "resemantization" that transforms 
ethnic identities in a way that destabilizes 
racial and gendered hierarchies. --aa 

Judith Butler and Gayatri Spivak, A Dialogue on Global 
States, 6 May 2006, at the Global States conference, 
University of California at Irvine, with an 
introduction by the conference organizers (not 
available in text-only version)

    * Abstract: In their dialogue, Butler and Spivak 
discuss alternative subjectivities and state forms in 
a "global state." In arguing for the possibilities 
afforded by forms of belonging that are unauthorized 
yet exist within the state, Judith Butler suggests that 
the "right" to rights arises in the form of social 
discourse--calling for freedom is already an exercise 
of freedom. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak disarticulates 
the identity of state and nation and develops the 
concept of critical regionalisms as a new analytics of 
power that rethinks territoriality and sovereignty. 
--Global States conference organizers 

Melinda Cooper, The Unborn Born Again: Neo-Imperialism, 
the Evangelical Right, and the Culture of Life

    * Abstract: Taking its cue from the political 
rhetoric of the Bush regime, this article attempts to 
understand the complex relationships between neo-liberal 
free-marketism, evangelical faith, and the culture of 
life now at work in U.S. politics. It argues that the 
claims of unborn life are central not only to the sexual 
politics of the religious right but also to an 
understanding of postmodern U.S. nationalism, imperial 
power, and indebtedness. In this way, it attempts to 
explain how the seemingly anti-foundational tendencies 
of neo-liberalism are nevertheless haunted by recurrent 
bouts of sexual and moral fundamentalism. --mc 

Karen L. Kopelson, Radical Indulgence: Excess, 
Addiction, and Female Desire

    * Abstract: The notion of excess has for some years 
now served as a productively disruptive trope for 
feminist theories working to recuperate feminine desire 
and to outmaneuver patriarchal structures of containment. 
Yet a particularly derided form of excess that has not 
been as thoroughly redeployed to feminist ends is that 
of addiction or intoxication. While addiction has 
certainly been fully problematized--by feminist critics 
and many others--this essay works from the premise that 
such discussions have so stalled as to remain figurative: 
they study representations of addicted subjectivity in 
media texts, for example, or, more often, make addiction 
allegorical of other phenomena. This essay, conversely, 
analyzes the ontology of addiction as it is embodied by 
the female subject, and works to rehabilitate excessive 
drinking/drug use as another form of women's lived, 
embodied protest against patriarchal structures 
that work to contain subversive feminine desires. --klk 

Hong-An Truong, Two Videos: The Past Is a Distant 
Colony | Explosions in the Sky and Viet Thanh Nguyen, 
Seeing Double: Two Films by Hong-An Truong (videos 
not available in text-only version)

    * Abstract: Two short films by Hong-An Truong 
juxtaposing Viet Nam's colonial past and its American 
war, with an introductory essay by film scholar 
Viet Thanh Nguyen. --ed