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Acknowledgments I would like to start by thanking my mentors at the English and Comparative Literature Departments of the State University of New York at Buffalo for their unfailing guidance and inspiring friendship: Joan Copjec, Ernesto Laclau, David Schmid, Tim Dean, and Rodolphe Gasché. At the same time, I would like to acknowledge the direct and indirect contributions of all of my friends and foes at UB’s Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture. You know who you are. Furthermore, I am also indebted to the two readers of the manuscript, Donald E. Pease and Michael Tratner, for their helpful comments and friendly criticisms. Needless to say, I am also grateful for the support of my colleagues at the English Department of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Special thanks are due to Sorin Radu Cucu and Marco Abel for their friendship. In the end, all this would have been impossible without Emily Hammerl. Parts of Chapter 7 have been published previously as “The Importance of Being Ugly: Anti-Communist Anti-Imperialism” in Comparative American Studies 6.4 (December 2008): 374–387. ...

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