Volume 6 (Spring 2006): Empire in Crisis

2006 Book Review Cover

Sequels
Lena Khor Personal Effects by Cynthia Franklin and Laura E. Lyons, eds.

Christopher Micklethwait Terror Wars by Salah Hassan, ed.

Worlds, Texts, Critics
T. Jackie Cuevas With Her Machete in Her Hand by Catrióna Rueda Esquibel

Laura Padilla A Woman’s Place: Women Writing New Mexico by Maureen Reed

Crystal M. Kurzen Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders by Alicia Gaspar de Alba

Nandini Dhar Closer to Freedom by Stephanie Camp

Olivier Jean Tchouaffe Je suis noir et je n’aime pas le manioc by Gaston Kelman

Nahrain al-Mousawi Algerian White: A Narrative by Assia Djebar

Tyler Fleming Sex & Politics in South Africa by Neville Hoad, Karen Martin, Graeme Reid, eds.

Elizabeth Bishop Memories of State by Eric Davis

John P.R. Schaefer The Orientalist by Tom Reiss

Layne Parish Craig James Joyce and Victims by Sean P. Murphy

Molly O’Hagan Hardy The Irish Art of Controversy by Lucy McDiarmid

Erin Hurt On Beauty by Zadie Smith

Elizabeth Erbeznik The Libertine Colony by Doris Garraway

New Orleans and the Consequences of Urban Crisis
Jeremy Dean Interview with James Kyung-Jin Lee

Neville Hoad Late Victorian Holocausts by Mike Davis

Olga Herrera The Ecology of Fear by Mike Davis

Alison M. Perry The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs

Catherine Bacon The Origins of the Urban Crisis by Thomas J. Sugrue

Lisette Helena Espinoza One Wound For Another by Claire Joysmith y Clara Lomas

Helena Woodard The Rising Tide by John M. Barry

Rebecca Onion Shadowed Ground by Kenneth Foote

Empire
Tricia Pearson Imperial Reckoning by Caroline Elkins, Histories of the Hanged by David Anderson

Keilonne A. O’Brien Black Empire by Michelle Ann Stephens

Mary Harvan-Gorgette and Barbara Harlow Memory of Congo, La mémoire du Congo by Jean-Luc Vellut

Lauren Apter Edge of Empire by Maya Jasanoff

Paul Neimann A New Imperial History by Kathleen Wilson, ed.

Kathryn Hamilton Modern Inquisitions by Irene Silverblatt

Indigenous Literature
Katy Young Our Fire Survives the Storm by Daniel Heath Justice

Katy Young Interview with Daniel Heath Justice

James H. Cox Elsie’s Business by Frances Washburn

Miriam Schacht Interview with Frances Washburn

Sylvia Gale The Poor Indian by Laura M. Stevens

Caroline Wigginton The People and the Word by Robert Warrior

Notes on Contributors