Special Issues, Forums, & Commentaries

The following list features special issues, forums, and commentaries that have appeared periodically since Representations was founded in 1983. These special collections are gathered and published when extraordinary new thinking on a given topic or theme emerges out of intellectual exchange in the scholarly community. Representations 101 will include a commentary on critical discussion of religious ideas in the United States by historian David Hollinger; number 102 will gather essays on the topic of secularism. Watch for these and other upcoming special collections.

Representations 100
SPECIAL ISSUE Remakes: A Symposium in Honor of Carol J. Clover

CATHERINE GALLAGHER and THOMAS LAQUEUR Introduction

CAROL J. CLOVER "The Same Thing—Sort Of"

WILLIAM IAN MILLER Is a Gift Forever?

ROBERTA FRANK Terminally Hip and Incredibly Cool: Carol, Vikings, and Anglo-Scandinavian England

THOMAS BREDSDORFF Speech Act Theory and Saga Studies

FRANCES FERGUSON The Way We Love Now: Ian McEwan, Saturday, and Personal Affection in the Information Age

JAMES SCHAMUS Next Year in Munich: Zionism, Masculinity, and Diaspora in Spielberg's Epic

Representations 99
SPECIAL ISSUE Forms of Asia

COLLEEN LYE Introduction: In Dialogue with Asian American Studies

TAKASHI FUJITANI Right to Kill, Right to Make Live: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans During WWII

SANJAY KRISHNAN Reading Globalization from the Margin: The Case of Abdullah Munshi

CHRISTOPHER BUSH The Ethnicity of Things in America's Lacquered Age

ERIC HAYOT Chinese Bodies, Chinese Futures

STEVEN G. YAO Toward a Prehistory of Asian American Verse: Pound, Cathay, and the Poetics of Consciousness

ROSALIND C. MORRIS Imperial Personal: The Politics and Aesthetics of Translation in British Malaya

Representations 98
FORUM Counterfactual Realities

CATHERINE GALLAGHER When Did the Confederate States of America Free the Slaves?

MARK MASLAN Telling to Live the Tale: Ronald Reagan, Edmund Morris, and Postmodern Nationalism

SARAH LOCHLANN JAIN Living in Prognosis: Toward an Elegiac Politics

PAUL K. SAINT-AMOUR "Christmas Yet to Come": Hospitality, Futurity, the Carol, and "The Dead"

ANDREW MILLER Lives Unled in Realist Fiction

Representations 94
SPECIAL ISSUE Mimesis East and West

VICTORIA KAHN Introduction

LESLIE KURKE Plato, Aesop, and the Beginnings of Mimetic Prose

TAMARA CHIN Orienting Mimesis: Marriage and the Book of Songs

LORNA HUTSON Forensic Aspects of Renaissance Mimesis

XU BING Landscript

HAUN SAUSSY Death and Translation

REY CHOW Sacrifice, Mimesis, and the Theorizing of Victimhood (A Speculative Essay)

Representations 93
COMMENTARY

DAVID HENKIN Opening Up the Iron Door: Jews, Culture, and The Jewish Century.

Representations 92
SPECIAL ISSUE Redress

STEPHEN BEST and SAIDIYA HARTMAN Fugitive Justice

HERMAN L. BENNETT "Sons of Adam": Text, Context, and the Early Modern African Subject

COLIN DAYAN Legal Terrors

ROBERT WESTLEY The Accursed Share: Genealogy, Temporality, and the Problem of Value in Black Reparations Discourse

BRYAN WAGNER Disarmed and Dangerous: The Strange Career of Bras-Coupé

DAVID LLOYD The Indigent Sublime: Specters of Irish Hunger

America Reconstructed, 1840-1940, special issue, Fall 1988, number 24.

"Art or Society: Must We Choose?" Symposium, Fall 1985, 12: 1-42.

Katherine Bergeron, ed., Music, Rhythm, Language, special issue, Spring 2004, number 86.

Stephen Best and Saidiya Hartman, eds., Redress, special issue, Fall 2005, number 92.

R. Howard Bloch and Frances Ferguson, eds., Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy, special issue, Fall 1987, number 20.

R. Howard Bloch and Carla Hesse, eds., Future Libraries, special issue, Spring 1993, number 42.

"Contentions of Age in Painting," special forum, Spring 2002, 78: 86-144.

"Crimes, Lies, and Narratives," special forum, Fall 2002, 80: 1-98.

The Cultural Display of the Body, special issue, Winter 1987, number 17.

Natalie Zemon Davis and Randolph Starn, eds., Memory and Counter-Memory, special issue, Spring 1989, number 26.

"Engendering Art," special forum, Winter 1989, 25: 1-70.

"Entertaining History: American Cinema and Popular Culture," special forum, Winter 1990, 29: 1-123.

Essays in Memory of Joel Fineman, special issue, Fall 1989, number 28.

"A Forum on American Film," special forum, Summer 2000, 71: 48-134.

Catherine Gallagher and Thomas Laqueur, eds., Sexuality and the Social Body in the Nineteenth Century, special issue, Spring 1986, number 14.

Catherine Gallagher, Mark Maslan, and Paul K. Saint-Amour, eds., Counterfactual Realities, special forum, Spring 2007, number 98.

Stephen Greenblatt, ed., The New World: Essays in Memory of Michel de Certeau, special issue, Winter 1991, number 33.

Stephen Greenblatt, István Rév, and Randolph Starn, eds., Identifying Histories: Eastern Europe Before and After 1989, special issue, Winter 1995, number 49.

Carla Hesse, ed., Practices of Enlightenment, special issue, Winter 1998, number 61.

Carla Hesse and Thomas Laqueur, eds., National Cultures Before Nationalism, special issue, Summer 1994, number 47.

Imperial Fantasies and Postcolonial Histories, special issue, Winter 1992, number 37.

In Memory of Michael Rogin, special issue, Fall 2003, number 84.

Victoria Kahn, ed., Mimesis East and West, special issue, Spring 2006, number 94.

Thomas W. Laqueur, ed., Grounds for Remembering, special issue, Winter 2000, number 69.

The Margins of Identity in Nineteenth-Century England, special issue, Summer 1990, number 31.

Walter Benn Michaels and Michael Rogin, eds., American Culture Between the Civil War and World War I, special issue, Winter 1985, number 9.

Monumental Histories, special issue, Summer 1991, number 35.

The New Erudition, special issue, Fall 1996, number 56.

New Perspectives in British Studies, special issue, Winter 1999, number 65.

Sherry B. Ortner, ed., The Fate of "Culture": Geertz and Beyond, special issue, Summer 1997, number 59.

Philosophies in Time, special issue, Spring 2001, number 74.

Robert Post, ed., Law and the Order of Culture, special issue, Spring 1990, number 30.

Robert Post and Michael Rogin, eds., Race and Representation: Affirmative Action, special issue, Summer 1996, number 55.

"Séance and Suicide: The Media of Somatic History," special forum, spring 1988, 22: 1-59.

Seeing Science, special issue, Fall 1992, number 40.

Tribute to Paul Alpers, special issue, Winter 2003, number 81.

"Writing on Drawing," special forum, Fall 2000, 72: 64-166.

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