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Table of Contents

Editor's Column: Comparative Literature on the Borders

John Burt Foster Jr.
pp. 1-4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0019
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Essays

Cultural Transactions Between Global Regions

Aryan Aristocrats and Übermenschen: Nietzsche's Reading of the Laws of Manu

Dorothy Figueira
pp. 5-20
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0024
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Viscous Circles: Antecedent Narrative Structures in Ben Jelloun's L'Enfant de sable

Joel Lee Coleman
pp. 21-39
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0029
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Inter-American Affiliations of Modern Fiction

Artists, Aesthetics, and Family Politics in Donoso's El obsceno pâjaro de la noche and James's The Golden Bowl

Scott Pollard
pp. 40-62
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0002
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Triptychs of Solipsism: The Decadent Plantation in José Lins do Rego's Fogo Morto and William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

Thomas O. Beebee
pp. 63-88
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0007
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Contemporary Eastern Europe as a Postcolonial Space

Configurations of Postcoloniality and National Identity: Inbetween Peripherality and Narratives of Change

Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek
pp. 89-110
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0012
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New Directions in Narrative after the Cold War

Introduction — Narrative Practices in the Post-Cold War Transition: Cultural and Narratological Transformations

Marcel Cornis-Pope
pp. 111-116
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0017
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Post-Cold War Narratives of Nostalgia

Claudia Sadowski-Smith
pp. 117-127
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0022
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Becoming Rasta: Recentering White Masculinity in the Era of Transnationalism

Wendy Somerson
pp. 128-140
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0027
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The Last Bomb: Historicizing History in Terry Bisson's Fire on the Mountain and Gibson and Sterling's The Difference Engine

Phillip E. Wegner
pp. 141-151
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0000
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Neither Fire nor Ice: Postmodern Revisions of America's Post-Cold War Apocalyptic Nightmare

Charles E. Gannon
pp. 152-159
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0005
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Review Articles

The Insistence of Theory

Jocelyn Van Tuyl, Miriam L. Wallace
pp. 160-163
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0010
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Umberto Eco: Two Portraits of a Proteus

Nikita Nankov
pp. 164-167
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0015
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Reviews

The Fateful Discourse of Worldly Things (review)

Thomas L. Cooksey
pp. 167-169
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0020
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The Future of the Book (review)

Jeffrey R. DiLeo
pp. 169-170
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0025
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Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities (review)

Jeanne J. Smoot
pp. 171-172
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0030
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The Aesthetic Contract: Statutes of Art and Intellectual Work in Modernity (review)

David Halliburton
pp. 172-175
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0003
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Art for Art's Sake and Literary Life: How Politics and Markets Helped Shape the Ideology and Culture of Aestheticism 1790-1990 (review)

Maria-Regina Kecht
pp. 175-176
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0008
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The Search for a New Alphabet: Literary Studies in a Changing World, and: Culturele identiteit en literaire innovatie (review)

Liedeke Plate
pp. 177-179
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0013
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What else but love?: The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison (review)

Carolyn R. Hodges
pp. 179-181
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0018
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Making Waves (review)

Celso de Oliveira
pp. 181-182
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0023
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The Returns of History: Russian Nietzscheans After Modernity (review)

Peter Woodruff
pp. 183-184
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0028
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Opera in History: From Monteverdi to Cage (review)

Thomas Kovach
pp. 184-186
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0001
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Booknotes

Apollinaire and the International Avant-Garde (review)

Ileana Orlich
pp. 187-188
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0006
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Strange Gourmets: Sophistication, Theory, and the Novel (review)

Elizabeth Richmond-Garza
pp. 188-189
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0011
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Writing the Dead: Death and Writing Strategies in the Western Tradition (review)

Maurizio Godorecci
pp. 189-190
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0016
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Crosspaths in Literary Theory and Criticism: Italy and the United States (review)

Robert S. Dombroski
pp. 190-192
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0021
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Paralelismos transatlánticos: postcolonialismo y narrativa femenina en América Latina y Africa del Norte (review)

Greg Dawes
pp. 192-193
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0026
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The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin (review)

Oleg Krochik
pp. 193-195
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0031
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Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary (review)

Christian Moraru
pp. 195-196
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0004
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Thinking Fascism: Sapphic Modernism and Fascist Modernity (review)

Elaine Martin
pp. 197-198
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0009
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List of Books Received

Books Received

pp. 198-199
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1999.0014
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