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Editorial Introduction

Personal, Local, Global

LYDIA ANN FRENCH There Was a Woman: La Llorona from Folklore to Popular Culture by Domino Perez

PATRICIA BURNS Race, Gender, and Comparative Black Modernism: Suzanne Lacascade, Marita Bonner, Suzanne Césaire, and Dorothy West by Jennifer Wilks

DANIEL KAHOZI MIGUMBU Early Soyinka by Bernth Lindfors

ANGELA HOWARD FREDERICK Women, Politics, and Power: A Global Perspective by Pamela Paxton and Melanie Hughes

BRIAN F. DOHERTY Clearing a Space: Reflections on India, Literature, and Culture by Amit Chaudhuri

LAYNE PARISH CRAIG On Creating a Usable Culture: Margaret Mead and the Emergence of American Cosmopolitanism by Maureen A. Molloy

LAUREN GANTZ The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

LORENA SILLER URTEAGA Violence and Activism at the Border: Gender, Fear and Everyday Life in Ciudad Juárez by Kathleen Staudt

RAWAN ARAR Dreaming of Change: Young Middle-Class Women and Social Transformation in Jordan by Julia Droeber

ANDREW UZENDOSKI Red Land, Red Power: Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel by Sean Kicummah Teuton

TYLER FLEMING Shadow People by Shunna Pillay

SAHEED ADERINTO Africa After Gender? edited by Catherine M. Cole, Takyiwaa Manuh, and Stephen F. Miescher

MARINA POTOPLYAK The History of Latin America: Collision of Cultures by Marshall C. Eakin

OUSSEYNOU SY Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War by Stanley Meisler

DANIEL GERLING Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines by Warwick Anderson

LISA GULESSERIAN Curry: A Tale of Cooks & Conquerors by Lizzie Collingham

BARBARA HARLOW A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré

MOLLY O’HAGAN HARDY The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture by George Boulukos

Cultures of Global Economics edited by GAVIN BENKE AND MELANIE HAUPT

GAVIN BENKE Invested Interests: Capital, Culture, and the World Bank by Bret Benjamin

GAVIN BENKE Globalization Inside and Outside the Academy: An Interview with Bret Benjamin

WILLIAM RODNEY HERRING Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri

KRISTINE KOTECKI A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey

REBECCA ONION American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century edited by Nelson Lichtenstein

ANTHONY FASSI A Postcapitalist Politics by J. K. Gibson-Graham

KRISTEN RUDISILL Harbingers of Global Change: India’s Techno-Immigrants in the United States by Roli Varma

OLGA HERRERA The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris

CHRISTINA GARCIA Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena María Viramontes

MELANIE HAUPT Supercapitalism by Robert B. Reich

Global Souths edited by ALBERTO VARON AND CHRISTOPHER MICKLETHWAIT

CHRISTOPHER MICKLETHWAIT In memoriam: Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

ALBERTO VARON Other South: Faulkner, Coloniality, and the Mariátegui Tradition by Hosam Aboul-Ela

CHRISTOPHER MICKLETHWAIT The Global South and the Big Bail Out: An Interview with Hosam Aboul-Ela

LANIE MILLAR Mother Africa, Father Marx: Women’s Writing of Mozambique, 1948-2002 by Hilary Owen

AMÉNA MOÏNFAR Iran Awakening: One Woman’s Journey to Reclaim her Life and Country by Shirin Ebadi

CARLOS AMADOR Drugs, Thugs, and Divas: Telenovelas and Narco-Dramas in Latin America by O. Hugo Benavides

NOAH MASS Cosmopolitanism: Ethics In a World of Strangers by Kwame Anthony Appiah

NAOMI BALDINGER Le Marteau pique-coeur by Azouz Begag

CHRISTOPHER MICKLETHWAIT Faulkner, Mississippi by Edouard Glissant

EMILY BLOOM The Dandy in Irish and American Southern Fiction: Aristocratic Drag by Ellen Crowell

ANTHONY ARROYO Emily Dickinson: não sou ninguém by Emily Dickinson

Language and the State edited by CHARLOTTE NUNES

CHARLOTTE NUNES Human Rights Discourse and Advocacy: An Interview with Karen Engle

DANIEL FRIEDMAN Torture Team: Rumsfeld’s Memo and the Betrayal of American Values by Philippe Sands

NATE KREUTER Conducting Archival Research When There Is No Archive

MEGAN EATMAN Sacred Violence: Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty by Paul W. Kahn

JOHANNA SELLMAN The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer

PRIYA NELSON Exceptional State: Contemporary US Culture and the New Imperialism edited by Ashley Dawson and Malini Johar Schueller

MELANIE CLOUSER Who Sings the Nation-State?: Language, Politics, Belonging by Judith Butler and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

MICHELLE MOTT States of Denial: Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering by Stanley Cohen

EMILY SPANGENBERG Missing directed by Constantin Costa-Gavras

CONNIE STEEL Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror by Mahmood Mamdani

Queer Intersections edited by GABRIELA GRAY REDWINE

S. PEARL BRILMYER The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault

GABRIELA GRAY REDWINE Gay Rights, Anti-Apartheid, and Community Archives in South Africa: An Interview with Graeme Reid and Neville Hoad

NEVILLE HOAD Heterosexual Africa?: The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS by Marc Epprecht

NICOLE ANGOTTI Sizwe’s Test: A Young Man’s Journey through Africa’s AIDS Epidemic by Jonny Steinberg

ALIX CHAPMAN Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles edited by Thomas Glave

MICHAEL A. JOHNSON Archival Review of the Carlo Coccioli Collection

T. JACKIE CUEVAS Modernity and the Nation in Mexican Representations of Masculinity: From Sensuality to Bloodshed by Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba

GABRIELA GRAY REDWINE Toms and Dees: Transgender Identity and Female Same-Sex Relationships in Thailand by Megan Sinnott

NAMINATA DIABATE The Politics of the Female Body: Postcolonial Women Writers of the Third World by Ketu Katrak

SEAN MCCARTHY Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times by Jasbir K. Puar

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Notes on Contributors