...Hortense J. Spillers Duke University Press 2003 ‘‘The Little Man at Chehaw Station’’ Today Hortense J. Spillers It would not be an exaggeration to say that I have known something about the ‘‘little man at Chehaw Station’’ virtually...

...Jonathan Arac Duke University Press 2003 Toward a Critical Genealogy of the U.S. Discourse of Identity: Invisible Man after Fifty Years Jonathan Arac 1 I start with a key moment late in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man...

...Lindsay Waters Lindsay Waters 2005 Is Now the Time for Paul de Man? An Address to Members of the Modern Language Association on the Twentieth Anniversary of Paul de Man’s Death Lindsay Waters And so let us then—by light...

...Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 2005 Learning from de Man: Looking Back Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak I find in the logic of parabasis a descriptive figure of action. This for me is the lesson of de Man. I ask the reader...

...Daniel T. O'Hara; Gina Masucci MacKenzie Duke University Press 2005 On the Culture of the Real: A Response to Lindsay Waters’s Critical Reflections on the Case of Paul de Man Daniel T. O’Hara and Gina Masucci MacKenzie Slavoj Žižek remarks in his recent book...

...Jim Merod Duke University Press 2005 Lindsay Waters on de Man: On Nothing’s Aftermath Jim Merod Nothing, whether deed, word, thought, or text, ever happens in rela- tion, positive or negative, to anything...

..., Eliot, and Melville. This, in turn, is related to the narrative mobility that makes so striking a feature of both works. In Global American Studies Imperial Eclecticism in Moby-Dick and Invisible Man: Literature in a Postcolonial Empire...

...Soyica Diggs Colbert “‘When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead’: The Future of the Human in Suzan-Lori Parks’s The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World ” puts thing theory in conversation with theorizations of temporality, claiming that things rupture the subject/object binary by dislocating...

... (as represented by French theory) was taken up by antihumanist trends, while in communist Eastern Europe it began to unfold under the aegis of “man.” By taking up the threads of this problematic divergence, the essay aims to provide a focusing lens that sharpens but also delimits a vast issue which seems...

... Steiner. ‘‘Auschwitz negates all systems, de- stroys all doctrines’’ says Elie Wiesel.1 More recently, and most significantly, Jean-François Lyotard posits Auschwitz as a differend—the space that can- 1. Theodor Adorno, Prisms, trans. Samuel and Sherry Weber (London: Neville Spear- man, 1955), 34...

... Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison and The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow succeeded stylistically and thematically where Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea and William Faulkner's A Fable did not. They offered a new vitality to overcome critics' discourse of the “death of the novel” and probed...

... Walt Whitman and his structural echoes of American first-person narratives such as Moby-Dick, The Great Gatsby, All the King's Men , and Invisible Man , Lee troubles the autoethnographic mode that he employs, in common with other important Asian American writings. Lee's work combines imaginative...

... entity. Machines preside over—and embody—the ritualistic state of transition to the age of technology. There is a spiritual cost to this material transformation. Apocalyptic imagery permeates the novels' climactic scenes, as the natural order is turned upside down, man falls from the garden, and paradise...

...Kenneth Goldsmith Barry Bonds is not only the future of athletics, but he's also emblematic of the future of poetry. More machine than man, chemically enhanced, Bonds is our first mainstream posthuman public figure. Bonds's milestone signifies an end to the humanist discourse; he is a martyr...

...Gina M. MacKenzie; Daniel T. O'Hara We read comparatively two acts of self-revision, James's transformation of his 1896 novel The Other House (based on an 1893 dramatic scenario) into a 1909 play and Hitchcock's two film versions of The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934, 1956). Based on Lacanian...

... poems, folk songs, letters, and the original lyrics of the “Bed Hangings” sequence—the whole designed to create an elegiac memoir of the poet's mother, Mary Manning Howe, that is also an autobiographical account of the poet's own discovery of her vocation and her place in her maternal family history...

... with Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man. This interview was conducted at Gutenberg University in Mainz on May 13, 2011, and was the keynote address of the workshop series “Mapping the World, Mapping Literature: A Global Community of Letters.” I am grateful to Professor Alfred Hornung of Gutenberg University...

...’ attempts to write a human-interest story about a man who is able to defecate perfectly formed sculptures made of shit, “The Suffering Channel” satirizes the insularity and narcissism that plagues Americans, even those who, like the interns who work at Style , imagine themselves to be cosmopolitans. Wallace...

... interpretation leads him to equate two conceptions of ourselves that are and must be kept distinct in Heidegger’s ontology: the self as “I myself” and the self as “anyone” ( das Man ). Second, Haugeland’s claim that “others” is Heidegger’s generic terms for persons obscures the methodological orientation...