PMLA, vol. 119, no. 5, October 2004

PMLA is the journal of the Modern Language Association of America. Since 1884, PMLA has published members' essays judged to be of interest to scholars and teachers of language and literature. Four issues each year (January, March, May, and October) present essays on language and literature; a Directory issue (September) contains a listing of the association's members, a directory of departmental administrators, and other professional information; and the November issue is the program for the association's annual convention. Each issue of PMLA is sent directly to the nearly 30,000 college and university teachers of English and foreign languages who belong to the association and to about 3,000 libraries throughout the world.

Volume 119, no. 5, October 2004

Contents:

Editor's Column: Collateral Damage

Wilde and Wilder
Daniel Brown

The Work of Testimony in the Age of Decolonization: Chronicle of a Summer, Cinema Verité, and the Emergence of the Holocaust Survivor
Michael RothbergAn

"Artful Juxtaposition on the Page": Memory, Perception, and Cubist Technique in Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth
Elizabeth Yukins

Clearing the Stage: Gender, Class, and the Freedom of the Scenes in Eighteenth-Century Dublin
Susan Cannon Harris

The Changing Profession Lessons in Blindness from Samuel Beckett
Peggy Phelan

Figuration
Mieke Bal

Looking: Literature's Other
Mary Ann Caws

Words Stare like a Glass Eye: From Literary to Visual to Disability Studies and Back Again
Tobin Siebers

Theories and Methodologies

Surrogate Americans: Masculinity, Masquerade, and the Formation of a National Identity
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg

Criticism in Translation

Chamisso, Chamisso Authors, and Globalization
Harald Weinrich
Introduction by Marshall Brown. Translated by Marshall Brown and Jane K. Brown

Letters from Librarians

The Library and Material Texts
Peter Stallybrass

Forum
Marleen S. Barr, Julia Douthwaite, Angela Flury, Carl Freedman, Perry Glasser, Constance B. Hieatt, and Eric S. Rabkin