Volume 8 (Spring 2008): Imperialism Nationalism Globalism

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Editorial Introduction

Imperialism, Nationalism, Globalism

SAMUEL BAKER Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, Historyby Frederick Cooper

JOSEPH MOSER Teaching is Carbon Neutral: An Interview with Elizabeth Cullingford

LENA KHOR and OUSSEYNOU SY London Was Full of Rooms by Syd Harrex, Rick Hosking and Graham Tulloch, Eds.

TYLER FLEMMING Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History by David Attwell

EMMA ALPERT A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

SAHEED ADERINTO Igbo Women and Economic Transformation in Southeastern Nigeria, 1900-1960 by Gloria Chuku

ANNA STEWART-KERR Spain’s Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire by María DeGuzmán

TY ALYEA Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America by Doris Sommer

CONNIE STEEL Burning Cartographies by Noni Benegas

PAMELA MANN The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue by Manuel Muñoz

KRITIKA AGARWAL The Near Northwest Side Story: Migration, Displacement, and Puerto Rican Families by Gina M. Pérez

REBECCA ANNE D’ORSOGNA Impossible Desires: Queer and South Asian Public Cultures by Gayatri Gopinath

AMBER ABBAS The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories by Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar

BRYAN RUSSELL Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story by Leanne Howe

NOAH MASS Grounded Globalism: How the US South Embraces the World by James L. Peacock

BARBARA HARLOW Bad Men: Guantánamo Bay and the Secret Prisons by Clive Stafford Smith

¿Estamos Post-Borderlands o No? edited by AMARA GRAF

LYDIA WILMETH The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary by Ramón Saldívar

OLGA HERRERA The Evolution of a Career and a Field of Study: An Interview with Ramón Saldívar

MEAGAN EATMAN Archival Review of the Américo Paredes Papers

ALBERTO VARON The Emergence of Mexican America: Recovering Stories of Mexican Peoplehood in US Culture by John-Michael Rivera

LUIS A. MARENTES Ringside Seat to a Revolution: An Underground Cultural History of El Paso and Juárez, 1893-1923 by David Dorado Romo

CHRISTINA GARCIA The Guardians: A Novel by Ana Castillo

T. JACKIE CUEVAS Their Dogs Came With Them: A Novel by Helena María Viramontes

MARZIA MILAZZO Chicano Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities by Laura Pérez

AMARA GRAF Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Third Edition) by Gloria Anzaldúa

Writing the African Imaginary edited by NAMINATA DIABATE

REBECCA HEWITT Ira Aldridge: The African Roscius by Bernth Lindors, Ed.

NAMINATA DIABATE From RAL to Ira Aldridge: An Interview with Bernth Lindfors

NAMINATA DIABATE Archival Review of the Bernth Lindfors Papers

AMÉNA MOÏNFAR Ira Aldridge: Celebrated 19th Century Actor by Martin Hoyles

REBECCA ROSSITER Blue Clay People: Seasons on Africa’s Fragile Edge by William Powers

TREVOR L. HOAG The Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon

OUSSEYNOU SY Archival Review of the Graham Greene Papers

LANIE MILLAR Imaginary Geographies in Portuguese and Lusophone-African Literature: Narratives of Discovery and Empire by Luís Madureira

LAUREN GANTZ Palm Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola

GABRIELA REDWINE Archival Review of the Amos Tutuola and Robert M. Wren Papers

NEVILLE HOAD HIV/AIDS, Illness, and African Well-Being by Toyin Falola and Matthew Heaton, Eds.

Building and Renovating the House of Race edited by JEREMY DEAN

JEREMY DEAN The House That Race Built: Black Americans, US Terrain by Wahneema Lubiano, Ed.

JEREMY DEAN Black Studies, Multiculturalism, and Airport Bookshops: An Interview with Wahneema Lubiano

PATRICIA BURNS Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison

ASHLEY SQUIRES The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism by Henry Louis Gates

ANDREA HILKOWITZ Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature by Gene Andrew Jarrett

LIZ JONES Quantum Lyrics: Poems by A. Van Jordan

KATE BENJAMIN Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown

JENNIFER ECKEL Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic by Jim Sagel

JEREMY DEAN Interview with Edmund T. Gordon

RACHEL BURGESS Brother, I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat

CHRISTOPHER MICKLETHWAIT The Kingdom of this World by Alejo Carpentier and The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James

The Shape of Resistance Literature edited by ERIN A. HURT

ERIN A. HURT Resistance Literature by Barbara Harlow

MOLLY O’HAGAN HARDY A Backward Glance and a Forward Gaze: An Interview with Barbara Harlow

KATHRYN HAMILTON Writing Confinement and Citizenship in the Nineteenth Century by Jason Haslam and Julia M. Wright, Eds.

EMILY BLOOM Unmanageable Revolutionaries: Women and Irish Nationalism by Margaret Ward

JOHANNA SELLMAN Autobiography and Independence: Self and Identity in North African Postcolonial Writing in French by Debra Kelly

MELANIE CLOUSER The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco by Susan Slyomovics

SOMY KIM Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit by Gillian Whitlock

LAYNE PARISH CRAIG Sharpened Edge: Women of Color, Resistance, and Writing by Stephenie Athey, Ed.

BROOKE HUNTER Late Medieval Prison Writing and the Politics of Autobiography by Joanna Summers

JAMES H. COX Native American Renaissance by Kenneth Lincoln

Editorial Committee

Notes on Contributors

Program Notes