PMLA is the journal of the Modern Language Association of America. Since 1884, PMLAhas published members' essays judged to be of interest to scholars andteachers of language and literature. Four issues each year (January,March, May, and October) present essays on language and literature; aDirectory issue (September) contains a listing of the association'smembers, a directory of departmental administrators, and otherprofessional information; and the November issue is the program for theassociation's annual convention. Each issue of PMLA is sentdirectly to the nearly 30,000 college and university teachers ofEnglish and foreign languages who belong to the association and toabout 3,000 libraries throughout the world.
Vol. 124, no 1 (janvier 2009)
Afghanistan Meets the Amazon: Reading The Kite Runner in America
Timothy Aubry
What's So Funny about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
Paul Cefalu
Fortunes of the Occhiali Politici in Early Modern Spain: Optics, Vision, Points of View
Enrique García Santo-Tomás
“Imagination's Commonwealth”: Edmund Blunden's Hong Kong Dialogue
Elaine Yee Lin Ho
Shakespeare's Preservation Fantasy
Aaron Kunin
Hegel contra Schlegel; Kierkegaard contra de Man
Ayon Roy
THEORIES AND METHODOLOGIES
The Neobaroque and the Americas
New World Baroque, Neobaroque, Brut Barroco: Latin American Postcolonialisms
Lois Parkinson Zamora
The Baroque as a Problem of Thought
William Egginton
Baroque and Neobaroque: Making Thistory
Roland Greene
“¡Vaya Papaya!”: Cuban Baroque and Visual Culture in Alejo Carpentier, Ricardo Porro, and Ramón Alejandro
Monika Kaup
Obscuritas and the Closet: Queer Neobaroque in Mexico
Salvador A. Oropesa
CRITICISM IN TRANSLATION
The Neobaroque and Popular Culture
Carlos Monsiváis. Introduction by Rosa Beltrán. Translation by James Ramey
THEORIES AND METHODOLOGIES
Rethinking Simone de Beauvoir for the Twenty-First Century
What Can Literature Do? Simone de Beauvoir as a Literary Theorist
Toril Moi
Simone de Beauvoir and Practical Deliberation
Emily R. Grosholz
Simone de Beauvoir, the Paradoxical Intellectual
Lawrence D. Kritzman
Ambiguity and Certitude in Simone de Beauvoir's Politics
Sonia Kruks
“A Scandalous Woman”? Beauvoir in Paris, January 2008
Susan Rubin Suleiman
CRITICISM IN TRANSLATION
Beauvoir and the Risks of Freedom
Julia Kristeva. Introduction by S. K. Keltner. Translation by Catherine Porter
Beauvoir aux risques de la liberté
Julia Kristeva
THE CHANGING PROFESSION
Hemispheric Studies
Ralph Bauer
What Comes after “Post-Soviet” in Russian Studies?
Julie A. Buckler
Second Life, Video Games, and the Social Text
Steven E. Jones
Forum: Conference Debates
Emily Apter, Bruno Bosteels, Peter Fenves, Andrew Parker, and Suzanne Guerlac
Forum
George Bellis, Hillary Chute, Lucas H. Harriman, Z. Esra Mirze, Adam Potkay, Jeffrey C. Robinson, Irving Rothman, and Ben Saunders