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Roetics today Editor: Meir Sternberg (Tel Aviv) Coeditor: Brian McHale (West Virginia) Assistant Editor: Orly Lubin (Tel Aviv) Founding Editor: Benjamin Harshav (Yale) Editorial Assistants: Louise Shabat Bethlehem, Sonja Laden Managing Secretary: Sharon Himmelfarb Index to Volume 15 Number 1 1—156 Number 2 157-339 Number 3 341-504 Number 4 505-730 Published by Duke University Press 728 Poetics Today 15:4 Alter, Robert Scholem and Modernism 429 Aparicio, Frances R. “Asi Son”: Salsa Music, Female Narratives, and Gender (De)Construction in Puerto Rico 659 Bal, Mieke Lots of Writing 89 Baram, Amatzia A Case of Imported Identity: The Modernizing Secular Ruling Elites of Iraq and the Concept of Mesopotamian-Inspired Territorial Nationalism, 1922—1992 279 Baron, Beth Readers and the Women’s Press in Egypt 217 Beinin, Joel Writing Class: Workers and Modern Egyptian Colloquial Poetry (Zajal) 191 Boyarin, Daniel Introduction: Purim and the Cultural Poetics of Judaism— Theorizing Diaspora l Calinescu, Matei Secrecy in Fiction: Textual and Intertextual Secrets in Hawthorne and Updike 143 Coronil, Fernando Listening to the Subaltern: The Poetics of Neocolonial States 643 Epstein, Shifra The “Drinking Banquet” (Trink- Siyde): A Hasidic Event for Purim 133 Fisch, Harold Reading and Carnival: On the Semiotics of Purim 55 Gershoni, Israel The Reader—“Another Production”: The Reception of Haykal’s Biography of Muhammad and the Shift of Egyptian Intellectuals to Islamic Subjects in the 1930s 241 Ghanayim, Mahmud Mahmud ?Amin al-‘Alim: Between Politics and Literary Criticism 32] Handelman, Don Critiques of Anthropology: Literary Turns, Slippery Bends 34] Horowitz, Elliott The Rite to Be Reckless: On the Perpetration and Interpretation of Purim Violence 9 Index to Volume 15 729 Johnson, Lemuel A. The Inventions of Paradise: The Caribbean and the Utopian Bent 685 Kristal, Efrain The Degree Zero of Spanish American Cultural History and the Role of Native Populations in the Formation of Pre-Independence National Pasts 587 Lajolo, Marisa The Role of Orality in the Seduction of the Brazilian Reader: A National Challenge for Brazilian Writers of Fiction 553 Lockman, Zachary Imagining the Working Class: Culture, Nationalism, and Class Formation in Egypt, 1899-1914 157 Marcus, George E. On Ideologies of Reflexivity in Contemporary Efforts to Remake the Human Sciences 383 Mignolo, Walter D. Introduction—Loci of Enunciation and Imaginary Constructions: The Case of (Latin) America 505 Resnick, David Esther’s Bulimia: Diet, Didactics, and Purim Paideia 75 Robyns, Clem Translation and Discursive Identity 405 Sarlo, Beatriz In Pursuit of the Popular Imaginary: From Sentimentalism to Technical Skill 569 Schildgen, Brenda Deen A Blind Promise: Mark’s Retrieval of Esther 115 Skurski, Julie The Ambiguities of Authenticity in Latin America: Dona Barbara and the Construction of National Identity 605 Sommer, Doris Resistant Texts and Incompetent Readers 523 730 Poetics Today 15:4 New Books Porter, Theodore M. Chance Subdued by Science (lan Hacking, The Taming of Chance; Paul Humphreys, The Chances of Explanation: Causal Explanation in the Social, Medical, and Physical Sciences; Abraham A. Moles, Les Sciences de l'imprécis, Anders Hald, A History of Probability and Statistics and Their Applications before 1750; Tore Frangsmyr,J . L. Heilbron, and Robin Rider, eds., The Quantifying Spirit in the Eighteenth Century; Mary S. Morgan, The History of Econometric Ideas; Alain Desrosieres and Laurent Thévenot, Les Catégories socioprofessionnelles) 167 Robyns, Clem André Lefevere, ed., Translation: History/Culture: A Sourcebook, André Lefevere, Translating Literature: Practice and Theory in a Comparative Literature Context 495 White, Eric Lyotard’s Neo-Sophistic Philosophy of Phrases (Geoffrey Bennington, Lyotard: Writing the Event; David Carroll, Paraesthetics: Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida; Jean-Francois Lyotard, Peregrinations: Law, Form, Event; The Differend: Phrases in Dispute) 479 New Books at a Glance 499