Textual Practice 10:3 (Textual Practice 103)

Book Cover......Page 1
Copyright......Page 3
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
The diasporic imaginary: theorizing the Indian diaspora......Page 7
The diasporic imaginary and its pretexts......Page 8
The old Indian diaspora: ‘the familiar temporariness’......Page 11
The law of the hyphen and the new Indian diaspora......Page 17
Race, postcoloniality and panic dis(b)orders: Hanif Kureishi......Page 20
Conclusion: postmodern ethnicity......Page 24
Notes......Page 26
I......Page 31
II......Page 32
III......Page 34
IV......Page 37
V......Page 39
VI......Page 43
VII......Page 47
Notes......Page 51
I......Page 56
II......Page 62
III......Page 69
Notes......Page 74
The high priest of atheism......Page 80
A radical mixture......Page 83
Action men......Page 85
The electric influence......Page 87
Notes......Page 91
Defended desires......Page 94
Being sexually postmodern......Page 96
Desire and identification: two scenarios......Page 98
Wishful theory......Page 101
What does heterosexuality want?......Page 103
Notes......Page 106
Reviews......Page 109
Rosalind E.Krauss, The Optical Unconscious (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993, 1994), 353 pp., £15.50 (paperback)......Page 110
Joan Copjec, Read My Desire: Lacan against the Historicists (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994), 272 pp., £11.95 (paperback)......Page 111
Paul Virilio, The Art of the Motor, trans. Julie Rose (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1995), 168 pp., £12.95 (paperback)......Page 116
Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Baroque Reason: The Aesthetics of Modernity, trans. Patrick Camiller, with an Introduction by Bryan S.Turner (London: Sage, 1993), 173 pp., £11. 95 (paperback)......Page 119
Peter Carravetta, Prefaces to the Diaphora (West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 1991), 345 pp., £28.50 (hardback)......Page 120
Nicholas Zurbrugg, The Parameters of Postmodernism (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993), 128 pp., $19.95 (hardback)......Page 121
Laure, The Collected Writings, trans. from the French by Jeanine Herman (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1995), 314 pp., $13.95 (paperback)......Page 129
Fred Inglis, Raymond Williams (London and New York: 1995), Routledge, 333 pp., £19.99 (hardback)......Page 133
Bonnie Kime Scott, Refiguring Modernism; vol. 1, The Women of 1928; vol. 2, Postmodern Feminist Readings of Woolf, West, and Barnes (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995), xliii+318 pp., £14.99 (paperback); xviii+217 pp., £12.50 (paperback)......Page 137
T.E.Hulme, The Collected Writings of T.E.Hulme, edited by Karen Csengeri (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), xxxvi+489 pp., £60.00 (hardback)......Page 138
Abstracts and keywords......Page 145
Melodrama as avant-garde......Page 146
Bisexuality, heterosexuality, and wishful theory......Page 147
Keywords......Page 148
Notes for contributors......Page 149
Reviews......Page 151