Paroles Gelées, Volume 14.2

Paroles Gelées
Special Issue Volume 14.2 (1996)
RISK AND RESOLUTION:
Literary Criticism at the End of the Millennium

Selected Proceedings from UCLA's French Department
Graduate Students' Interdisciplinary Conference

Sponsors:            French Consulate of Los Angeles
                     Borchard Foundation
                     UCLA French Department
                     European Studies Program
                     UCLA Graduate Students' Association

Co-Editors:          Anne-Lancaster Badders
                     Marianne Golding

Assistant Editor:    Diane Duffrin

Conference           Marianne Golding, Committee Chair
Organizers:          Anne-Lancaster Badders    Laura Leavitt
                     Kimberly Carter-Cram      Markus Müller
                     Helen Chu                 Michael Stafford
                     Diane Duffrin             Lena Udall
                     Erik Eisel

Design and Layout:   Joyce Ouchida

Editors: Introduction
Conference Program
Ross Chambers, Keynote Speaker: "The Responsibility of Responsiveness: Criticism in an Age of Witness"
Emily Apter: "Responsibility as Risk (Some Thoughts on Ross Chambers's 'The Responsibility of Responsiveness: Criticism in an Age of Witness')"
Vincent P. Pecora: "On Responsibility, Cunning, and High Spirits: A Response to Ross Chambers"
Arundhati Banerjee: "Reader's History Meets Textual Geography: Towards a Syncretistic Theory of Reading"
Naomi E. Silver: "'Romantic Effects': The Difficulties and Usefulness of Literary Criticism"
Scott Homler: "Islam, History, and the Modern Nation: Hegemony and Resistance in Contemporary Moroccan Francophone Literature"
Chris Andre: "World Literature and Economic Hegemony: Free-Trade Imperialism and 'Whole Populations Conjured Out of the Ground' in The Communist Manifesto"
Hsiu-chuan Lee: "Genre-Crossing: Kingston's The Woman Warrior and Its Discursive Community"
Julia Abramson: "Translation as Metaphor in Hildescheimer's Marbot Eine Biographie"
Janet Sarbanes: "Literary Criticism After the Revolution or How to Read a Polemical Literary Text"
Kristi Wilson: "Cross-Cultural 'Othering' Through Metamorphosis"
J. Stephen Murphy: "Jamming the Machine: Yves Klein's Blue Monochrome and the End of the Avant-Garde"
Tamara Harvey: "'What About the Audience?/What About Them?': Spectatorship and Cinematic Pleasure"
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