Contents
Issue 26.1 (Winter 1999)
Cultural Violence
Essays
Jeffrey A. Weinstock and Rachel Riedner .............................................1
Introduction: Cultural Violences
Babak Elahi ..........................................................................................8
The Time of Violence; Deconstruction and Value
Kenneth Itzkowitz................................................................................19
To Witness Spectacles of Pain: The Hypermorality of Georges Bataille
To Witness Spectacles of Pain: The Hypermorality of Georges Bataille
Zrinka Stahuljak ..................................................................................34
The Violence of Neutrality - Translators In and Of the War
(Croatia, 1991-1992)
(Croatia, 1991-1992)
Lisa Garbus..........................................................................................54
The Unspeakable Stories of Shoah and Beloved
The Unspeakable Stories of Shoah and Beloved
David Hoegberg ....................................................................................................................................69
Principle and Practice: The Logic of Cultural Violence in Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Steve Macek .........................................................................................................................................80
Places of Horror: Ficher's Seven and Fear of the City in Recent Hollywood Film
Greg Wahl .............................................................................................................................................98
"I Fought the Law (and I Cold Won!)": Hip-hop in the Mainstream
Mary Kate Kelly ...................................................................................................................................113
Performing the Other: A Consideration of Two Cages
Sung-Uk Hwang ...................................................................................................................................137
Ecological Panopticism: The Problematization of the Ecological Crisis
Jennifer K. Wood ................................................................................................................................150
Refined Raw: The Symbolic Violence of Victims' Rights Reforms
Anne E. Shaw and Alanne C. Spinney ................................................................................................170
Rhetoric, Repetition, and Violence: A Case Study of Clinic Conflict in Milwaukee
Book Reviews
Cynthia Lowenthal ..............................................................................................................................194
Review of Political Science Fiction, ed. Donald M. Hassler and Clyde Wilcox
Janet Bowden .....................................................................................................................................197
Review of A Tawdry Place of Salvation: The Art of Jane Bowles, ed. Jennie Skerl
C. Christopher Soufas ..........................................................................................................................200
Review of Don Quixote in England: The Aesthetics of Laughter, by Robert Paulson
Barbara Mennel ..................................................................................................................................202
Review of Sexual Politics and the Male Playwright: The Portrayal of Women in Ten Contemporary Plays, by Geetha Ramanathan
Graham Fraser ....................................................................................................................................207
Review of Nationalism and LIterature: The Politics of Culture in Canada and the United States, by Sarah M. Corse
Maggie Kilgour ....................................................................................................................................209
Review of Cannibals: The Discovery and Representation of the Cannibal from Columbus to Jules Verne, by Frank Lestringant
Matthew A. Fike ..................................................................................................................................212
Review of The Complicity of Imagination: The American Renaissance, Contests of Authority, and 17th Century English Culture, by Robin Grey
Juliana Makuchi -
Nfah Abbenyi
.........................................................................................................214
Review of Contemporary African-American Theater: Afrocentricity in the Works of Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka, and Charles Fuller, by Nilgun Analdolu-Okur
Maureen T. Reddy ...............................................................................................................................216
Review of Family Matters in the British and American Novel, ed. Andrea O'Reilly Herrera, Elizabeth Mahn Nollen, and Sheila Reitzel Foor.
Appendices
Books Received ..................................................................................................................................218
Announcements ..................................................................................................................................226
