Historicizing Theory

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments vii Introduction: The Resistance to Historicizing Theory 1 Peter C. Herman 1. The Holocaust, French Poststructuralism, the American Literary Academy, and Jewish Identity Poetics 17 Evan Carton 2. Michel Foucault and the Specter of War 49 Karen Raber 3. Historicizing Paul de Man’s Master Trope Prosopopeia: Belgium’s Trauma of 1940, the Nazi Volkskörper, and Versions of the Allegorical Body Politic 69 James J. Paxson 4. “Nostalgeria” and “Structure, Sign, Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” 99 Lee Morrissey 5. Jean Baudrillard and May ’68: An Acoustic Archaeology 113 Andrea Loselle 6. Stephen Greenblatt’s “X”-Files: The Rhetoric of Containment and Invasive Disease in “Invisible Bullets” and “The Sources of Soviet Conduct” 137 Jonathan Gil Harris 7. New Historicizing the New Historicism; or, Did Stephen Greenblatt Watch the Evening News in Early 1968? 159 Ivo Kamps v C O N T E N T S 8. The End of Culture 191 Loren Glass 9. Literature, Incorporated: Harold Bloom, Theory, and the Canon 209 Marc Redfield 10. The Sixties, the New Left, and the Emergence of Cultural Studies in the United States 235 David R. Shumway 11. The Postcolonial Godfather 255 H. Aram Veeser 12. The Spectrality of the Sixties 277 Benjamin Bertram 13. Afterword: Historicism and Its Limits 301 Morris Dickstein Contributors 315 Index 319 vi Historicizing Theory ...