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Acknowledgments This projec t woul d no t hav e bee n possibl e withou t th e dail y inspiration an d encouragemen t provide d m e b y Caro l Inskeep . He r in sightful comment s on all aspects of everyday life often kep t me going. James Ha y gav e endles s consideratio n t o th e argument s presente d here. His patience, ideas, and cooking all provided critical nourishment . Thanks to Siobhan Senier for her careful reading s of much of this project . I am grateful a s well to Michael Berube , Larry Grossberg , Amand a Anderson, an d Car y Nelso n fo r thei r suggestion s an d encouragement . Thanks also to Elizabeth Coleman and Vivian Wagner for their comments on individual chapters . I want to thank Eri c Zinner a t New York University Pres s for bearin g with m e throughou t th e completio n o f thi s projec t an d fo r hi s suppor t along the way. This book was made possible through fellowships grante d to me by the Graduate College and the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . My parents, Peg and Ro n Juffer, gav e me all kinds of non-judgmenta l support. And thanks most of all to Alex, who so sweetly kept asking me, "Is your book don e yet, Mama?" A shorter version of chapter four was published in Social Text 4 8 (Fall 1996): 27-48. Reprinted with permission . Vll ...

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