Table Of Content

Critical Inquiry Volume 18, Contents Agawu, Kofi Representing African Music Anderson, Warwick “Where Every Prospect Pleases and Only Man Is Vile”: Laboratory Medi- cine as Colonial Discourse Bal, Mieke Telling, Showing, Showing Off Baym, Nina Between Enlightenment and Victo- rian: Toward a Narrative of Ameri- can Women Writers Writing History Bilgrami, Akeel What Is a Muslim? Fundamental Commitment and Cultural Identity Boyarin, Daniel “This We Know to Be the Carnal Israel”: Circumcision and the Erotic Life of God and Israel Brown, Bill CRITICAL RESPONSE: Writing, Race, and Erasure: Michael Fried and the Scene of Reading Bruner, Jerome The Narrative Construction of Reality Carby, Hazel V. Policing the Black Woman’s Body in an Urban Context Chen, Xiaomei Occidentalism as a Counterdiscourse: “He Shang” in Post-Mao China Chicago Cultural Studies Group Critical Multiculturalism Daston, Lorraine Marvelous Facts and Miraculous Evi- dence in Early Modern Europe Derrida, Jacques Given Time: The Time of the King Flesch, William Quoting Poetry Fraser, Nancy Sex, Lies, and the Public Sphere: Some Reflections on the Confirma- tion of Clarence Thomas Fried, Michael CRITICAL RESPONSE: Response to Bill Brown Fuss, Diana Fashion and the Homospectatorial Look Ginzburg, Carlo Checking the Evidence: The Judge and the Historian Koethe, John Contrary Impulses: The Tension between Poetry and Theory Lewontin, R. C. Fact and the Factitious in Natural Sciences Makdisi, Saree S. The Empire Renarrated: Season of the Migration to the North and the Reinvention of the Present McGann, Jerome J. Laura (Riding) Jackson and the Lit- eral Truth Michaels, Walter Benn Race into Culture: A Critical Geneal- ogy of Cultural Identity Obeyesekere, Gananath “British Cannibals”: Contemplation of an Event in the Death and Resurrec- tion of James Cook, Explorer Preziosi, Donald The Question of Art History Rogin, Michael Blackface, White Noise: The Jewish Jazz Singer Finds His Voice Schaffer, Simon Self Evidence Schor, Naomi Cartes Postales: Representing Paris 1900 Smith, Barbara Herrnstein Belief and Resistance: A Symmetrical Account Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty Acting Bits/Identity Talk Suleri, Sara Woman Skin Deep: Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition Trumpener, Katie The Time of the Gypsies: A “People without History” in the Narratives of the West Vidal-Naquet, Pierre Atlantis and the Nations Young, James E. 267 The Counter-Monument: Memory against Itself in Germany Today