EXIT 9
The Rutgers Journal of Comparative Literature
Volume IX, 2008
"Textuality and Terror"
Copyright © 2008, Graduate Program in Comparative Literature
Rutgers, The State University of New jersey
Cover Illustration:
Case Revolver (2001)
Image used with permission from Nicholas Ganz
Graffiti World: Street Art from Five Countinents
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 2004. page 43
Table of Contents:
Page 1 | Introduction
Papers:
Page 3 | "Toward A Non-Normative Concept Of Terrorism"
by Ron Wheeler
Page 23 | "Nomadology And The Rhetoric On Terror"
by Sandra Sokowski
Page 35 | "Otherness In Anna Letitia Barbauld's "Eighteen Hundred And Eleven": Prophesizing Terror In 19th Century England"
by Rachel Golland
Page 51 | "Otherness In Anna Letitia Barbauld's "Eighteen Hundred And Eleven": Prophesizing Terror In 19th Century England"
by Maryam El-Shall
Page 75 | ""A Terrible Beauty Is Born": A Postmodern Definition of Terrorism And Don Delillo's "The Uniforms"
by Natalie Leppard
Page 93 | "The Terror Complex: Don Delillo's Cosmopolis"
by Patrick Jagoda
Faculty Spotlight
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Professor van Buskirk wins the AATSEEL Best Book Prize
Congratulations to our colleague Emily van Buskirk, whose Lydia Ginzburg's Prose: Reality in Search of Literature (Princeton...
Comp Lit News
Emerita Professor JOSEPHINE DIAMOND has passed away
Prof. Diamond was a pioneer in the global study of women's expressive cultures and, for many years, Comp Lit's graduate director. A memorial service is being planned -- former students are encouraged to share reflections about their work with her. Please contact andrew.parker@rutgers.edu for details.
CFP: LOVE IN TRANSLATION
2018 Rutgers University Program in Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference: March 2-3
You can find the Call for Papers here. The last day to submit abstracts is December 15, 2017.
Brown Bag Lunch: Humanities Dean MICHELLE ANN STEPHENS on her new book collection Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago
Wednesday, January 17, 12 - 1:30pm, AB-4052
Graduate Colloquium: GABRIELE LAZZARI on Junot Díaz and the Scales of World Literature
Monday, March 19, 5 - 7:30pm, AB-4052
Graduate Student Spotlight
Congratulations to 2016 PhD BEN DE WITTE, now a Doctor-Assistant in the Research Unit on Translation and Intercultural Transfer ("Vertaling en Interculturele Transfer") at KU Leuven in Belgium. Veel succes, Ben!
Comp Lit celebrates our most recent PhDs:
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Shawn González: "Translating Linguistic Conflicts: A Decolonial Perspective on Multilingual Caribbean Literature" (2017)
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Matthew Mangold: "Chekhov's Medical Aesthetics: Environments, Psychology, Literature" (2017)
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Huseyin Ekrem Ulus: "Nationalism, Secularism, Belonging, and Identity in Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, and Orhan Pamuk" (2016)
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Carolyn Ureña: "Invisible Wounds: Rethinking Recognition in Decolonial Narratives of Illness and Disability" (2017)
Congratulations also to...
- María Elizabeth Rodríguez Beltrán, awarded a Ford Foudation Pre-Dissertation Fellowship
- Virginia Conn and Rafael Vizcaino, who recently passed their doctoral exams
- Rudrani Gangopadhyay, winner of the 2017 Cinema Studies Graduate Essay Prize for “Gazing into the Past: Memory in Michael Haneke’s Caché”
Newsflash
Rutgers Comp Lit wins Mellon Grant to support Critical Theory in the Global South initiative
The Rutgers Program in Comparative Literature is pleased to announce a five-year collaboration with the Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM). This partnership, beginning in 2018-19 and funded generously by the Mellon Foundation’s Critical Theory in the Global South initiative, will support reciprocal dissertation workshops in Mexico City and New Brunswick, as well as the creation of a new interdisciplinary course, to be taught concurrently in English and Spanish at Rutgers and UNAM, on “The University and Its Publics: North, South, and In Between.”
Rutgers Comp Lit participates in this initiative as a member of the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs (ICCTP), co-directed by Judith Butler (UC Berkeley) and Penelope Deutscher (Northwestern). For further information about the Rutgers-UNAM collaboration or the ICCTP, please contact Andrew Parker, the principal investigator for the Rutgers Mellon Grant, or go to http://www.criticaltheory.northwestern.edu/mellon-project/critical-theory-in-the-global-south/.