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 121, number 5, October 2006 :
Enabling Fictions and Novel Subjects: The Bildungsroman and International Human Rights Law
Joseph R. Slaughter
The Other Interesting Narrative: Olaudah Equiano's Public Book Tour
John Bugg
Beauty along the Color Line: Lynching, Aesthetics, and the Crisis
Russ Castronovo
Native Sons and Native Speakers: On the Eth(n)ics of Comparison
Yung-Hsing Wu
Austrian Inner Colonialism and the Visibility of Difference in Stifter's Die Narrenburg
Joseph Metz
Traducing the Soul: Donne's Second Anniversarie
Ramie Targoff
Little-Known Documents
The First Published Review of Octavio Paz's The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950)
José Vasconcelos
Introduction and translation by Rubén Gallo
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Editor's Note
The Humanities in Human Rights: Critique, Language, Politics
Papers from a conference held on 21-22 October 2005 at the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Correspondents at Large
Human Rights in Latin America
Rape and Human Rights
Jean Franco
Cuando Vienen Matando: On Prepositional Shifts and the Struggle of Testimonial Subjects for Agency
Alicia Partnoy
Useful Humanism
Doris Sommer
Trauma and Performance: Lessons from Latin America
Diana Taylor
Theories and Methodologies
Feminist Criticism Today
In Memory of Nellie Y. McKay
Breaking the Whole Thing Open: An Interview with Nellie Y. McKay
Shanna Greene Benjamin
The Case of Lady Anne Clifford; or, Did Women Have a Mixed Monarchy?
Julie Crawford
Jouissance, Cyborgs, and Companion Species: Feminist Experiment
Marianne DeKoven
The Currency of Feminist Theory
Jane Elliott
The Futures of Feminist Criticism: A Diary
Susan Stanford Friedman
Feminism Inside Out
Susan Gubar
Feminist Deaths and Feminism Today
Astrid Henry
Feminist Criticism: A Tale of Two Bodies
Sharon Marcus
Notes on the Afterlife of Feminist Criticism
Sinead McDermott
"I Am Not a Feminist, But . . .": How Feminism Became the F-Word
Toril Moi