Index

Index

Vol. 24, no. 1 Spring 2007
Special Issue: On Torture
Guest Editor: Thomas C. Hilde, University of Maryland

vii Editor's Preface

viii About the Cover Photograph

1 Introduction: On Torture
Thomas C. Hilde

Articles

8 Torture on Trial: Prosecuting Sadists and the Obfuscation of Systemic Crime
Rebecca Wittmann

18 Torture in the Algerian War
Tzvetan Todorov

27 There Are No Tortures in Gaza
Adi Ophir

37 Iron Maiden Landscapes: The Geopolitics of Colombia's Territorial Conquest
Margarita Serje

56 Torture, Tongues, and Treason
Christopher Britt Arredondo

73 The Terrorist We Torture: The Tale of Abdul Hakim Murad
Stephanie Athey

91 The Torturers and Their Public
Alphonso Lingis

95 Are there times when we have to accept torture? / / Are We Really So Fearful?
Ariel Dorfman

101 Torture: New Methods and Meanings
Pilar Calveiro

119 Torture As a Greater Evil
Carlos Castresana

131 Legitimacy, Identity, Violence and the Law
Michael Hatfield

151 Torture Makes the Man
Darius Rejali

170 Feminism's Assumptions Upended
Barbara Ehrenreich

174 Totalitarian Lust: From Salò to Abu Ghraib
Eduardo Subirats

183 Information and the Tortured Imagination
Thomas C. Hilde Notes on Contributors Books Received

Vol. 24, no. 2 Summer 2007
Special Issue: On Pascal Bruckner

1 Introduction
Richard J. Golsan

5 The Ambivalences of Vulgarity
Pascal Bruckner

15 The Paradoxes of Anti-Americanism
Pascal Bruckner

Appreciations

26 On Pascal Bruckner
André Glucksmann

31 The Aesthetic of Courage
Serge Koster

40 Interview with Luc Ferry
Conducted by Richard J. Golsan

46 Pascal Bruckner
Paul Berman

Articles

54 Bruckner and the Politics of Memory: Repentance and Resistance in Contemporary France
Nathan Bracher

71 On the Duty of Thinking: Pascal Bruckner and Latin America
Eduardo Espina

81 Scenarios of Desire in the Fiction of Pascal Bruckner
Ralph Schoolcraft III

Vol. 24, no. 3 Fall 2007
Open Issue

1 Introduction
Richard J. Golsan

Articles

2 Lewis in Contention: Identity, Anxiety, and the London Vortex
Carolyn Tilghman

23 German Romanticism Goes to Hollywood: Heinrich von Kleist's "On the Puppet Theater" and Being John Malkovich
Martin Kley

36 Excess and Identity: The Franco-Romanian Ionesco Combats Rhinoceritis
Anne Quinney

Special Section: Hurricane Katrina

53 Introduction
Nicole Pepinster Greene

55 Facing the Flood: The English Department as a High Axle Vehicle
Thomas Bonner, Jr.

61 When Life Gives You Lemons: Katrina as Subject
Bonnie Noonan

67 Show and Tell
Katheryn Krotzer Laborde

76 Flushing out the Basements: The Status of Contingent Composition Faculty in Post-Katrina New Orleans—And What We Can Learn from It
Nicole Pepinster Greene