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Volume 120, Number 3, May 2005
Table of contents:
Guest Column: Roundtable on the Future of the Humanities in a Fragmented World
Toni Morrison, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
Presidential Address 2004: The Humanities in a Posthumanist World
Robert Scholes
The Dark Wood of Postmodernity (Space, Faith, Allegory)
Bill Brown
Invisible Tagkanysough
Ed White
Representing the Slave Trader: Haley and the Slave Ship; or, Spain's Uncle Tom's Cabin
Lisa Surwillo
The Chinese Renaissance: A Transcultural Reading
Gang Zhou
Recovering Chicano/a Literary Histories: Historiography beyond Borders
Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez
The Transatlantic Mysteries of Paris: Chester Himes, Surrealism, and the Série noire
Jonathan P. Eburne
Theories and Methodologies:
Photography, War, Outrage
Judith Butler
Regarding Susan Sontag
Nancy K. Miller
For Susan Sontag, 1933-2004
Sohnya Sayres
Culture, Aestheticism, and Ethics: Sontag and the "Idea of Europe"
Susan Rubin Suleiman
Little-Known Documents:
The Social and Political Position of Woman in Ancient Egypt (1887)
Amelia Blandford Edwards
Introduction by Patricia O'Neill
Nobel Lecture 2004:
Sidelined
Im Abseits
Elfriede Jelinek
Forum: Responses to Bill Brown's "The Dark Wood of Postmodernity (Space, Faith, Allegory)"
Rey Chow, Simon During, Susannah Heschel, Klaus J. Milich, and Mary Louise Pratt. Reply by Bill Brown
Forum
Eric R. J. Hayot, Kent Johnson, Steven Mailloux, Bruce R. Smith, and James D. Sullivan