Editors' Note

CR: The New Centennial Review is devoted to comparative studies of the Americas. The journal's primary emphasis is on the opening up of the possibilities for a future Americas which does not amount to a mere reiteration of its past. We seek interventions, provocations, and, indeed, insurgencies that release futures for the Americas. In general, CR welcomes work that is inflected, informed, and driven by theoretical and philosophical concerns at the limits of the potentialities for the Americas.

Such work may be explicitly concerned with the Americas, or it may be broader, global and/or genealogical scholarship with implications for the Americas. CR recognizes that the language of the Americas is translation, and that therefore questions of translation, dialogue, and border crossings (linguistic, cultural, national, and the like) are necessary for rethinking the foundations and limits of the Americas.

For forty-five years, CR has been a journal committed to interdisciplinarity, and we continue to encourage work which goes beyond a simple performance of the strategies of various disciplines and interdisciplines, and that therefore interrogates them.

The Special Section on "Phosphorescent Memories" outlines a possible model of inter-American image-making and its interpretative implications. The lines of inquiry benefit from the disciplinary tensions that activate art-historical or culturalist concerns with the surface phenomena of the object, the specificity of time and place, the contingencies of formal influence, and the politics of representation. It is therefore a comparatist mode of analysis that mediates between visual and rhetorical practices historically produced in North America, the Caribbean, and Latin America. The issue arises from a conversation between the editors and Roberto Tejada about possible directions CR might take, and we thank him for his help in coordinating the issue.

We currently are soliciting work for Special Issues or Special Sections on the following topics, among others:

• • Terror Wars

• • Juan García Ponce, Community, Politics

• • Eco in/of the Americas