Postmodern Culture Table of Contents v2n02 (January 1992) URL = http://infomotions.com/serials/pmc/pmc-v2n02-contents.txt POSTMODERNCULTUREPOSTMODERNCULTURE P RNCU REPO ODER E P O S T M O D E R N P TMOD RNCU U EP S ODER ULTU E C U L T U R E P RNCU UR OS ODER ULTURE P TMODERNCU UREPOS ODER ULTU E an electronic journal P TMODERNCU UREPOS ODER E of interdisciplinary POSTMODERNCULTUREPOSTMODERNCULTURE criticism ----------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 2, Number 2 (January, 1992) ISSN: 1053-1920 ----------------------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL BOOK-REVIEW ISSUE Editors: Eyal Amiran John Unsworth Book Review Editor: Jim English, Issue Editor Managing Editor: Nancy Cooke List Manager: Chris Barrett Editorial Assistant: Mina Javaher Editorial Board: Kathy Acker Patrick O'Donnell Sharon Bassett Elaine Orr Michael Berube John Paine Marc Chenetier Marjorie Perloff Greg Dawes David Porush R. Serge Denisoff Mark Poster Robert Detweiler Carl Raschke Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Mike Reynolds Joe Gomez Avital Ronell Robert Hodge Andrew Ross bell hooks Jorge Ruffinelli Susan Howe Susan M. Schultz E. Ann Kaplan William Spanos Arthur Kroker Tony Stewart Neil Larsen Gary Lee Stonum Jerome J. McGann Chris Straayer Larysa Mykyta Paul Trembath Chimalum Nwankwo Greg Ulmer Phil Novak ----------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS AUTHOR & TITLE FN FT Masthead, Contents, Abstracts, CONTENTS 192 Instructions for retrieving files Roger Berger. Review of Adam, Ian, and Helen Tiffin, eds. _Past the Last Post: Theorizing Post-modernism and Post- colonialism_. Calgary: U Calgary P, 1990. Reviewed by Roger Berger. BERGER 192 Chris Connery. Review of Chow, Rey. _Woman and Chinese Modernity: The Politics of Reading Between West and East_. Minneapolis: U Minnesota P, 1991. CONNERY 192 Clifford L. Staples. Review of hooks, bell. _Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics_. Boston: South End Press, 1990. STAPLES 192 Douglas A. Davis. Review of Cixous, Helene. _"Coming to Writing" and Other Essays_. Ed. Deborah Jenson. Trans. Sarah Cornell, Deborah Jenson, Ann Liddle, Susan Sellers. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1991. DAVIS 192 Rose Norman. Review of Code, Lorraine. _What Can She Know? Feminist Theory and the Construction of Knowledge_. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1991. NORMAN 192 Susan Ross. Review of Flax, Jane. _Thinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Postmodernism in the Contemporary West_. Berkeley: California UP, 1990. ROSS 192 John Batali. Review of Nye, Andrea. _Words of Power: A Feminist Reading of the History of Logic_. London: Routledge, 1990; Gross, Alan G. _The Rhetoric of Science_. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1990. BATALI 192 Robert C. Holub. Review of Norris, Christopher. _What's Wrong With Postmodernism? Critical Theory and the Ends of Philosophy_. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1990. HOLUB-1 192 Robert C. Holub. Review of Koelb, Clayton, ed. _Nietzsche as Postmodernist: Essays Pro and Contra_. Albany: SUNY P, 1990. HOLUB-2 192 Sharon Bassett. Review of Desmond, William. _Art and the Absolute: A Study of Hegel's Aesthetics_. Albany: SUNY P, 1986; _Desire, Dialectic, and Otherness_. New Haven: Yale UP, 1987; _Philosophy and Its Others: Ways of Being and Mind_. SUNY P, 1990. BASSETT 192 Renate Holub. Review of Norris, Christopher. _Spinoza and the Origin of Modern Critical Theory_. Cambridge: Basil Blackwell, 1991. RHOLUB 192 Neil Larsen. Review of Jameson, Fredric. _Late Marxism: Adorno, or the Persistence of the Dialectic_. London: Verso, 1990. LARSEN 192 Joseph Dumit. Review of Penley, Constance, and Andrew Ross, eds. _Technoculture_. Minneapolis: Minnesota UP, 1991. DUMIT 192 Lisa M. Heilbronn. Review of Kinder, Marsha. _Playing With Power in Movies, Television, and Video Games; From Muppet Babies to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles_. Berkeley: California UP, 1991. HEILBRON 192 James Morrison. Review of Horton, Andrew, ed. _Comedy/Cinema/Theory_. Berkeley: California UP, 1991. MORRISON 192 Susan Schultz. Review of Ashbery, John. _Flow Chart_. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991; Bronk, William. _Living Instead_. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1991. SCHULTZ 192 POPULAR CULTURE COLUMN Melynda Huskey, "Pee-Wee Herman and the Postmodern Picaresque" POP-CULT 192 ANNOUNCEMENTS NOTICE-1 192 NOTICE-2 192 ----------------------------------------------------------------- TO RETRIEVE SINGLE ITEMS LISTED ABOVE, send a mail message to listserv@ncsuvm or listserv@ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu containing as its one and only line the command get [fn ft] pmc-list f=mail (replace [fn ft] with the filename and filetype, as listed in the table of contents, for the file you want to receive). 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