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  • Contributors

Raul Antelo is chairman of the Brazilian literature department at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Yale University, Duke University, and the Universiteit Leiden in the Netherlands. He is the author of Algaravia: Teoria da nação (1998) and Transgressão e modernidade (2001). He has also edited the Obra completa of Oliverio Girondo (1999), A ronda das Américas by Jorge Amado (2001), and Antonio Candido y los estudios latinoamericanos (2002).

Ana María Dopico teaches literatures and cultures of the Americas in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University. She is presently at work on a book, “Cubanologies: Visual Imagination and the Dialectics of National Culture.”

Patrick Dove is a visiting assistant professor at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. His interests include literary aesthetics, politics, and modernity in the Southern Cone and Mexico. He is currently completing a book titled “The Catastrophe of Modernity: Echoes of Tragedy in Latin American Literature.”

Michael Dutton is reader/associate professor of political science at the University of Melbourne, Australia. The author of Policing and Punishment in China: From Patriarchy to “the People” (1992) and Streetlife China (1998), he is a coeditor of the journal Postcolonial Studies.

Harry Harootunian is chair of the Department of East Asian Studies at New York University. He recently published History’s Disquiet (2000) and Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan (2000). He is editing, with Masao Miyoshi, Learning Places: Area Studies, Ethnicity, and Gender (Duke University Press, forthcoming).

William David Hart is associate professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. He is a critical theorist of religion and the author of Edward Said and the Religious Effects of Culture (2000). [End Page 601]

Adriana Campos Johnson is an assistant professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine. She has published “Outside Out-of-Place Ideas: Reading Roberto Schwartz” in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies and is working on issues of subalternity and power.

Ali Mirsepassi is a professor and associate dean at the Gallatin School, New York University. He is the author of Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization: Negotiating Modernity in Iran (2000).

William M. Reddy is William T. Laprade Professor of History and professor of cultural anthropology at Duke University. His research interests include eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French history, the problem of conceptualizing cultural change, and, most recently, the history and anthropology of emotions. His most recent works include The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions (2001), and “The Logic of Action: Indeterminacy, Emotion, and Historical Narrative,” in the journal History and Theory (2001).

Slavoj Žižek, philosopher and psychoanalyst, is a senior researcher in the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is the author of more than twenty books, including, most recently, The Plague of Fantasies (1997), The Ticklish Subject (1999), The Fragile Absolute, or, Why the Christian Legacy Is Worth Fighting For (2000), Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? Five Essays in the (Mis)use of a Notion (2001), and On Belief (2001). [End Page 602]

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