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Table of Contents

Editor's Column: Witnessing Catastrophe, Interpreting Catastrophe

Zahi Zalloua
pp. 1-4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2017.0000
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Catastrophe

Literature, Catastrophe, and Numbers: Saadat Hasan Manto and Tahar Ben Jelloun

Dominic Rainsford
pp. 5-18
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2017.0001
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Racial Microbiopolitics: Flint Lead Poisoning, Detroit Water Shut Offs, and The "Matter" of Enfleshment

Chelsea Grimmer
pp. 19-40
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2017.0002
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Carlos Mérida's "Goce Emocional": An Aesthetics Proposal Circumventing the Space of Catastrophe of Mexican Nationalism

Judith Sierra-Rivera
pp. 41-59
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2017.0003
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Troubled Waters: Liquid Memory in the Wake of Disaster

Lauren Ravalico
pp. 60-77
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2017.0004
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Goodbye Crude World: The Aesthetics of Environmental Catastrophe in Michel Faber's The Book of Strange New Things and Edward Burtynsky's Oil Photographs

Sofia Ahlberg
pp. 78-92
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2017.0005
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Writing the Hyper-Disaster: Embodied and Engendered Narrative after Nuclear Disaster

Emily Jones
pp. 93-117
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2017.0006
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Overturning Catastrophes

Alexandra Perisic
pp. 118-132
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2017.0007
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Moderating Revolution: V.S. Srinivasa Sastri, Toussaint Louverture, and the Civility of Reform

Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan
pp. 133-152
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2017.0008
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Catastrophic Education: Saving the World with H. G. Wells

Jeffrey R. Di Leo
pp. 153-176
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2017.0009
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General Articles

Transculturality and the Gesta Romanorum in Light of Hartmann von Aue's Gregorius and Heinrich Kaufringer's Verse Narratives

Albrecht Classen
pp. 177-196
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2017.0010
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The Author's Heroes: Bulgakov's Molière, and Other Deployments of World Literature Classics

Margarita Marinova
pp. 197-213
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2017.0011
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The Ghost Story in Mexican, Turkish and Bengali Fiction: Bhut, Fantasma, Hayalet

Ian Almond
pp. 214-236
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2017.0012
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The Waterfall, the Whirlpool, and the Stage "Boundaries of Americanness" in Poe's "A Descent into the Maelstrom"

Micah K. Donohue
pp. 237-256
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2017.0013
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Frank O'Hara: Salute to the French Negro Poet, Aimé Césaire

Alexandra J. Gold
pp. 257-272
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2017.0014
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Getting Under Your Skin: Sebald on Chatwin and Flaubert

Patrick Ffrench
pp. 273-287
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2017.0015
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Truth Commissions and Unspoken Narratives in Gillian Slovo's Red Dust and David Park's: The Truth Commissioner

Lisa Propst
pp. 288-308
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2017.0016
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On the Brink: Identity and Language in the Poetry of Arab-American Women

Lubna Safi
pp. 309-324
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2017.0017
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Review Essays

The Weight of All Flesh: On the Subject-Matter of Political Economy by Eric L. Santner (review)

Matthew Bost
pp. 325-332
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2017.0018
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The Tribe of Pyn: Literary Generations in the Postmodern Period by David Cowart, and: The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism by Brian McHale (review)

Christian Moraru
pp. 332-340
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2017.0019
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Of Reality. The Purposes of Philosophy by Gianni Vattimo (review)

Brian O'Keeffe
pp. 341-354
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2017.0020
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Melville's Intervisionary Network: Balzac, Hawthorne, and Realism in the American Renaissance by John Haydock (review)

Kevin J. Hayes
pp. 354-363
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2017.0021
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Reviews

The Intellective Space: Thinking Beyond Cognition by Laurent Dubreuil (review)

Josh Doty
pp. 364-366
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2017.0022
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Writers and Rebels. The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus by Rebecca Gould (review)

Adelheid Rundholz
pp. 366-368
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2017.0023
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The New Public Intellectual: Politics, Theory, and the Public Sphere eds. by Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Peter Hitchcock (review)

Robert T. Tally Jr.
pp. 368-371
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2017.0024
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The Birth of Theater from the Spirit of Philosophy: Nietzsche and the Modern Drama by David Kornhaber (review)

Mary Ann Frese Witt
pp. 371-373
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2017.0025
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Becoming Human: The Matter of the Medieval Child by John A. Mitchell (review)

Nicholas Parmley
pp. 374-376
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2017.0026
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The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy by Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber (review)

Jeffrey R. Di Leo
pp. 377-382
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2017.0027
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Gaston Bachelard: Philosopher of Science and Imagination by Roch C. Smith (review)

Ben Stoltzfus
pp. 383-388
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2017.0028
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Romoland: A Pictonovel by Judith Palmer and Ben Stoltzfus (review)

Lynn A. Higgins
pp. 388-390
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2017.0029
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Space as Storyteller: Spatial Jumps in Architecture, Critical Theory, and Literature by Laura Chiesa (review)

Thomas L. Cooksey
pp. 390-392
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2017.0030
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The Rutledge Prize 2016: For Graduate Students Giving Papers at the SCLA Conference

Harry C. Rutledge
pp. 393-394
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2017.0031
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