Summer 1996
(Volume 22, Number 4)

Table of Contents:

  1. Mark Rose: Mothers and Authors:Johnson v. Calvert and the New Children of Our Imaginations

  2. James Tatum: Memorials of the America War in Vietnam

  3. Daniel Abramson: Maya Lin and the 1960s: Monuments, Time Lines, and Minimalism

  4. Hortense J. Spillers: "All the Things You Could Be by Now if Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother": Psychoanalysis and Race

  5. Charles Spinosa and Hubert L. Dreyfus: Two Kinds of Antiessentialism and Their Consequences  ***Critical Response ***

  6. Charles Altieri: What Is Living and What Is Dead in American Postmodernism: Establishing the Contemporaneity of Some American Poetry

  7. Joan DeJean: Did the Seventeenth Century Invent Our Fin de Siècle;? Or, the Creation of the Enlightenment That We May at Last Be Leaving Behind