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Reviews Of Recent Publications

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Elisabeth Mermann-Jozwiak and Nancy Sullivan. Conversations with Mexican American Writers: Languages and Literatures in the Borderlands by Tanya González

Barbara Mennel. The Representation of Masochism and Queer Desire in Film and Literature by Amy Gates-Young

David Damrosch. How to Read World Literature by Lisabeth Hock

Maria DiFrancesco. Feminine Agency and Transgression in Post-Franco Spain: Generational Becoming in the Narratives of Carme Riera, Cristina Fernández Cubas and Mercedes Abad by Maryanne L. Leone

Jennifer Wawrzinek. Ambiguous Subjects: Dissolution and Metamorphosis in the Postmodern Sublime by Claudine Fisher

Maria Cristina Fumagalli. Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity: Returning Medusa’s Gaze by Laurence M. Porter …

Surveillance And Liberty In Céline's New York, The City That Doesn't Sleep (Around) , Jennifer Willging

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

This essay focuses on Ferdinand Bardamu's account of his stay in New York City in Louis-Ferdinand Céline's bleak bildungsroman, Journey to the End of the Night (1932). In it I explore the rather surprising absence of reference to the Statue of Liberty in a text narrated by a French immigrant of sorts who spends weeks on Ellis Island and who immediately personifies the city as an androgynous, steely, and indeed statue-like woman. Applying to the text Foucault's theories on the disciplinary nature of modern western society, I suggest that it is Bardamu's suspicion that he is under unobtrusive yet constant …

Madness And The Middle Passage: Warner-Vierya's Juletane As A Paradigm For Writing Caribbean Women's Identities, Ann Elizabeth Willey

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

This article links Glissant's theory of an inherent Caribbean madness due to the originary rupture and alienation from Africa with Foucault's theory of the ritual significance and essential liminality of the madman as exemplified in the medieval figure of the "Ship of Fools." In calling the madman the "passenger par excellence," Foucault implies a connection between sanity and linear narratives, such as that of a voyage. Myriam Warner-Vierya's novel, Juletane, suggests that European paradigms of narrative and voyage are inadequate to provide a sense of self for Caribbean women. The novel takes the form of a diary that chronicles …

The Legacy Of Althusser, 1918-1990: An Introduction, Philip Goldstein

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Introduction to the special issue.

Althusser, Foucault, And The Subject Of Civility, Toby Miller

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

This paper seeks to paint a picture of how discernible links between Althusser and Foucault can assist us to theorise the life of cultural subjects inside established and emergent liberal-capitalist states. Althusser's querying of a humanistic foundation to political philosophy and the social contract is connected to Foucault's contention that modernity invented the subject as a centre of inquiry and that centre became the site constructing obedient citizens.