Books Received

Adorno, Theodor W. Sound Figures. Trans. Rodney Livingstone. Meridian. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999.

Agamben, Giorgio. The End of the Poem: Studies in Poetics. Trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen. Meridian. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999.

Alsop, Derek, and Chris Walsh. The Practice of Reading: Interpreting the Novel. New York: St. Martin’s, 1999.

Apter, Emily. Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Aravamudan, Srinivas. Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688–1804. Post-Contemporary Interventions. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999.

Bal, Mieke, ed. The Practice of Cultural Analysis: Exposing Interdisciplinary Interpretation. Cultural Memory in the Present. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999.

Barker, Adele Marie, ed. Consuming Russia: Popular Culture, Sex, and Society Since Gorbachev. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999.

Bennett, David, ed. Multicultural States: Rethinking Difference and Identity. London and New York: Routledge, 1998.

Britton, Celia M. Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance. New World Studies. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999.

Brown, Marshall, ed. Eighteenth-Century Literary History: An “MLQ” Reader. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999.

Caughie, Pamela L. Passing and Pedagogy: The Dynamics of Responsibility. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999.

Chambers, Ross. Loiterature. Stages. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.

Ch’u, T’ien-wen. Notes of a Desolate Man. Trans. Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin. Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.

Coates, Ruth. Christianity in Bakhtin: God and the Exiled Author. Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Comer, Krista. Landscapes of the New West: Gender and Geography in Contemporary Women’s Writing. Cultural Studies of the United States. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Cumings, Bruce. Paralax Visions: Making Sense of American–East Asian Relations at the End of the Century. Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999.

Danesi, Marcel. Of Cigarettes, High Heels, and Other Interesting Things: An Introduction to Semiotics. Semaphores and Signs. New York: St. Martin’s, 1999.

Derrida, Jacques. Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas. Trans. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas. Meridian. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999.

Diaz, Tony, ed. Latino Heretics. Normal, Ill.: Fiction Collective Two, 1999; distributed in U.S. by Northwestern University Press.

Dowling, William C. The Senses of the Text: Intensional Semantics and Literary Theory. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.

Favor, J. Martin. Authentic Blackness: The Folk in the New Negro Renaissance. New Americanists. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999.

Fioretos, Aris. The Gray Book. Meridian. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999.

Fox, Claire F. The Fence and the River: Culture and Politics at the U.S.-Mexico Border. Cultural Studies of the Americas. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.

Geist, Anthony L., and José B. Monleón. Modernism and Its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America. Hispanic Issues. New York: Garland, 1999.

Gillooly, Eileen. Smile of Discontent: Humor, Gender, and Nineteenth-Century British Fiction. Women in Culture and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Hanson, Ellis, ed. Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film. Series Q. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999.

Hare, Tom. ReMembering Osiris: Number, Gender, and the Word in Ancient Egyptian Representational Systems. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999.

Harpham, Geoffrey Galt. Shadows of Ethics: Criticism and the Just Society. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999.

Kaur, Raminder, and John Hutnyk, eds. Travel Worlds: Journeys in Contemporary Cultural Politics. London and New York: Zed, 1999.

Kittler, Friedrich A. Gramophone, Film, Typewriter. Trans. and with an intro. by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young and Michael Wutz. Writing Science. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999.

Kitzberger, Ingrid Rosa, ed. The Personal Voice in Biblical Interpretation. London and New York: Routledge, 1999.

Lazarus, Neil. Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World. Cultural Margins. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Leonard, James S., ed. Making Mark Twain Work in the Classroom. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999.

Levine, Robert M., and John J. Crocitti, eds. The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Latin...