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Volume 28: Women, Sexuality, and Early Modern Studies

Editorial Staff:

Roya Ahmadinia, Associate Managing Editor

Karen Araya, Associate Managing Editor

Blair Ashton, Illustration Design

Stephanie Fields, Cover Design

Elizabeth Hickman, Managing Editor

David Hook, Assistant Layout and Design

Claudia Zapata, Layout and Design, ASCL President and Business Coordinator

Faculty Advisor:

Elizabeth Dahab

From the back cover:

Four of the articles in this issue are the outcome of talks delivered at the 2007 conference while the balance was obtained from a wider call for submissions. The final outcome, a total of fourteen studies, is the work of contributors residing, working, and studying in England, Scotland, Germany, Egypt, the United States, and Canada, an impressive international array for a volume of this size.

Volume 22

vol. 22: Postcolonialism: The Dislocation of Culture 2001
Editorial Staff:
Ralph Clare, Daniel Downey, Goli Erami,
Kathryn Formosa, Martin Hasso, Raige Pierson,
Cindy Stanphill Contributing Editor: Jimmie Jaimes Layout Design: Daniel Downey & Cindy Stanphill
Faculty Advisor: Carl Fisher

From the Introduction
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If Criticism is reducible neither to a doctrine nor to a political position on a particular question, and if it is to be in the world and self-aware simultaneously, then its identity is its difference from other cultural activities and from systems of thought or of method. In its suspicion
of totalizing concepts, in its discontent with reified objects, in its impatience with guilds, special interest, imperialized fifedoms, and orthodox habits of mind, criticism is most itself and, if the paradox
can be tolerated, most unlike itself at the moment it starts turning into organized dogma.
Edward Said, The World, the Text, and the Critic

Table of Contents

Promising "Post-colonialism": Deleuze-Guattari's
"Minor Literature" and the Poetry of Arthur Yap
Irving Goh, National University of Singapore, Singapore………………………………………..………...….……....13

Writing from Below: Ironic Distance
and the Location of Translation
Christi Ann Merrill, University of Michigan………………………....32

Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters: Rhetoricizing Hegemony
and Violence in the Postcolonial Philippines
Rachel C. Riedner, George Washington University………….……....55

Wide-Open Spaces: Locating the Hybrid Identities of the Southwest in the Works of Powell, Lummis, Cather and Silko
Jean Arnold, Pitzer College………………………..………………....84

The Persistence of the Flower World: The Yaqui Deer Dancer
Peter T. Markman, California State University, Long Beach...….….104
Download the Yaqui Deer Dancer Music referenced in this article.

Azteca Dancer
Daniel Downey, California State University, Long Beach..….……..122

Photograph: Azteca Dancer, Mexico City (2001)
Raige Pierson, California State University, Long Beach…………..…123

Photographs of Vietnam
David H. Goetz, California State University, Long Beach..….……..124

I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem: A Rejection of Western Ideology
Cassandra Ward, California State University, Long Beach..………....84

Rootless
Kathryn Formosa, California State University, Long Beach...….…..138

Critical Agendas: Postcolonial Critics and the Rewriting of Solomon Plaatje's Mhudi
Shannon Young & Tom Henthorne, Pace University..…...….……...139

Trinity -After an Arabic Myth
Aaron Bradford, California State University, Long Beach…………..150

Cracking India: Cultural and Religious Representations
In Indo-Anglian Literature (1947 to Present)
Nadia Ahmed, University of California, Berkeley..………….……...151

Girish Karnad's Hayavadana: A Postcolonial Reading
Virginie Magnat, University of California, San Diego/Irvine..……..169

The Dying Around the Holy Power
-After a Brahmanist Prayer Cycle
Aaron Bradford, California State University, Long Beach...…….….178

Genus - English, Species - Other: Liminal Hybridity
in The Satanic Verses
Andrew Howe, University of California, Riverside..….………..…..179

Beyond the Hybrid: Notes Against Heterophilic Authoritarianism
Paul Allatson, Institute for International Studies, University
Of Technology, Syndney, Australia…………. ……………….….…190

Summer of 1904 (The Other Side of the World Fair)
Derrick A. Engoy, California State University, Long Beach..…..…..207

Exile or Opportunity?: The Plight of the Transported Felon
In Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders and Colonel Jack
Brett C. McInelly, Brigham Young University…………....………...209

Suburban Foundry
Daniel Downey, California State University, Long Beach...….…….217

Dinh Q. Lê: Playing God
David H. Goetz, California State University, Long Beach..….…..…218

Stretching Postcolonialism: Barbara Kingsolver's
The Poisonwood Bible and the Politics of Authenticity
Ronit Fainman-Frenkel, University of Arizona, Tucson………...….237

The Networks
Harold Fisher II, California State University, Long Beach…………252

Photographs of Vietnam
David H. Goetz, California State University, Long Beach..….……..255

Cover Art

Interconfined (1994) by Dinh Q. Lê, from the series,
Portraying a White God.