Table Of Content

CONTENTS POETRY/FICTION FRED PFEIL/ The Dream / 6 MAY HALL/ Faith Is Three Parts Formaldehyde, One Part Ethyl Alcohol / 9 XU ZHIMO/ A Snapshot (trans. by Robert Dorsett and S. W. Ko) /13 CLAUDIA GRINNELL/ Let Us Now Praise Famous Angels/ 14 Reported Number of Teen Virgins Rises, or, When Squid Attack / 15 REBECCA WARNER/ Model Numbers / 16 Atomic Love / 17 AIMEE LABRIE/ How to Survive in a Big City Rather than Returning to Your Hometown Where You Keep Running into Old High School Acquaintances at Target / 18 ANTHONY CRISTOFANTI/ Literal Prison / 19 GAIL KOPLOW/ For Sale / 20 STEFANO BENNI/ The Story of First-Aid and Beauty Case (trans. by Chad Davidson and Marella Morris) / 21 WEN YIDUO/ Images of An Early Summer Night During the Time of the War Lords (trans. by Robert Dorsett and S. W. Ko) / 28 MURZBAN F. SHROFF/ The Maalishwalla / 29 CRAIG PAULENICHZe/ro to the Bone/ 41 CONSTANCE STUD/E HeRar t Shift/ 42 Winter Light/ 43 AMY SPADE/ Versions /44 INTERVIEWS Consolidating Theory: An Interview with VINCENT B. LEITCH / 45 Style: An Interview with LAURA KIPNIS / 63 A Sense of History: An Interview with ARIF DIRLIK / 79 History and Hope: An Interview with ROBIN D. G. KELLEY / 93 THE LEGACIES OF MICHAEL SPRINKER Introduction / 111 CLIFFORD SISKIN/ Michael Sprinker / 117 JEFFREY J. WILLIAMS/ Teacher/ 121 MICHAEL BERNARD-DONALS/ A Legacy of Teaching: for Michael Sprinker / 127 ANTHONY T. VAVER/ Michael Sprinker, the Teacher: Intellectual History, Proust, and Marxism/ 135 DEVONEY LOOSER/ Michael Sprinker and Feminism / 143 ROBERT WESS/ Reading Michael Sprinker / 149 TOM LEWIS/ Philosophical Realism and the Aesthetic in Michael Sprinker’s Literary Criticism/ 155 JOHN KRAPP/ Traces of the Ethical in Michael Sprinker’s Marxism / 161 JAMES J. PAXSON/ Crossing De Man with Althusser: Chiasmus and the Literary Theory of Michael Sprinker/ 167 JAMES HOLSTUN/ Pham Thai, Michael Sprinker, and John Holstun: Chemical Herbicide and the Indirect Costs of Production / 173 RICHARD DANIELS/ Scattered Remarks on the Ideology of Home / 187 R. H. STEPHENSON / What’s Wrong with Cultural Studies? A Modest Proposal/ 197 PROVOCATIONS VERSHAWN ASHANTI YOUNG/ So Black I’m Blue / 207 LEONARD CASSUTO/ The Cultural Work of Serial Killers / 219 MARC BOUSQUET/ Tenured Bosses and Disposable Teachers / 231 REVALUATIONS JOHN MCGOWAN / Kenneth Burke / 241 JUSTIN PAULSON/ Uneven Reification / 251 DOMINIC BOYER/ The Medium of Foucault in Anthropology / 265 JAMES SMITH / The Career of Eagleton / 273 SURVEYING THE FIELD ROBIN J. SOWARDS/ Making Intellectualism Intelligible (on Graff’s Clueless in Academe) / 279 LISA FLUET/ How to Love Enlightenment (on Michael’s Anxious Intellects and Smith’s White Teeth) / 291 SCOTT A. COHEN / All Globalists Now (on Boehmer’s Empire, the National, and the Postcolonial and Shankar’s Textual Traffic) / 303 NATHAN K. HENSLEY/ Punishing Disciplines (on Anderson and Valente’s Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siécle) / 311 DAVIS SCHNEIDERMAN/ Disability Studies Grows Up, And Apart (on Davis’ Bending Over Backwards)/ 317 MARJORIE N. FELD / Jewish Studies and the Liberal Consensus (on Staub’s Torn at the Roots) / 323 BOOKS FOR REVIEW / 327 CONTRIBUTORS 331