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Bridging Enigma
Cubans on Cuba, Volume 96
Ambrosio Fornet
Duke University Press
The enigma of Cuba’s resistance to the collapse of socialism around the world is equaled by the fact—surprising to some outsiders—that the Cuban cultural movement remains healthy, even with the problems brought about by the breakup of the Soviet Union. Represented in this issue of South Atlantic Quarterly by artwork, essays, short stories, and interviews, Cuban art and literature continues to produce dramatic testimony to a struggle for survival and a shared belief in the Cuban revolutionary project’s right to exist and develop on its own terms.
Fostered by both caution and audacity, in a climate of both trust and tension, and in the face of sustained North American hostility through nearly four decades, Cuban artists and writers have succeeded in building bridges between domestic and foreign cultural institutions, partly offsetting the profound material deprivations under which they have labored. The work collected in this volume introduces a group of writers, artists, and filmmakers who provide a window on Cuban life, illuminating this enigmatic island and bridging the troubled waters it shares with its continental neighbor to the north.

Contributors. Arturo Arango, Emilio Bejel, Rosa Ileana Boudet, Roberto Fernández Retamar, Ambrosio Fornet, Rafael Hernández, Francisco López Sacha, Humberto Manduley López, Vivian Martínez Tabares, Margarita Mateo Palmer, Miguel Mejides, Reinaldo Montero, Lisandro Otero, Graziella Pogolotti, Magda Resik, Cintio Vitier

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German Dis/Continuities, Volume 96
Martin Morris
Duke University Press
The twentieth-century history of few countries has been so profoundly marked by breaks, discontinuities, and ruptures as has Germany’s—the radical breaks between the Wilhelmine empire, the Weimar Republic, and the National Socialist period; the “end of history” in 1945 and the dual reconstruction from “Year Zero,” followed by the reunification of post-1989 German. This special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly focuses on the many dimensions of these discontinuities—social, political, cultural, aesthetic, psychological, and physical—as well as the continuities that are equally, if less apparently, implied by them.
The contributions presented here include Fredric Jameson’s “Ramblings in Old Berlin,” Günter Grass’s “Lonesome Capitalism,” and Peter Weiss’s “Aesthetics of Resistance.” Among the topics discussed in the volume are the debate over Holocaust memorials in Germany and the significance of their connections to the German past, the problematic continuity that identifies the new unified Germany with the former Federal Republic; the dangers to women posed by the neoliberal project; the legacy of the avant-garde in today’s media theory; Ars nova and Doktor Faustus; nostalgia for the old German Democratic Republic; and reflections on traumatic memory and history as trauma.

Contributors. Ulrich Baer, Michael Geyer, Günter Grass, Frigga Haug, Julia Hell, Fredric Jameson, Juliet Koss, Andreas Michel, Martin Morris, Arkady Plotnitsky, Pierra Vidal-Naquet, Peter Weiss, James E. Young

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Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 96
R. J. Tarrant
Harvard University Press
This volume of nineteen articles offers: Marianne Palmer Bonz, “The Jewish Donor Inscriptions from Aphrodisias: Are They Both Third-Century, and Who Are the Theosebeis?”; Timothy W. Boyd, “Where Ion Stood, What Ion Sang”; C. O. Brink, “Can Tacitus’ Dialogus Be Dated? Evidence and Historical Conclusions”; Robert D. Brown, “The Bed-Wetters in Lucretius 4.1026”; Joseph W. Day, “Interactive Offerings: Early Greek Dedicatory Epigrams and Ritual”; Marian Demos, “Callicles’ Quotation of Pindar in the Gorgias”; Margalit Finkelberg, “The Dialect Continuum of Ancient Greek”; Andrew Garrett and Leslie Kurke, “Pudenda Asiae Minoris”; Stephen Harrison, “Yew and Bow: Vergil Georgics 2.448”; C. P. Jones, “A Geographical Setting for the Baucis and Philemon Legend (Ovid Metamorphoses 8.611–724)”; Alan Kershaw, “En in the Senecan Dramatic Corpus”; Paul T. Keyser, “Later Authors in Nonius Marcellus and His Date”; William T. Loomis, “Entella Tablets VI (254–241 B.C.) and VII (20th cent. A.D.?)”; Alan Nussbaum, “Five Latin Verbs from Root *leik-”; Michael Peachin, “The Case of the Heiress Camilia Pia”; Alexander Sens, “A Beggarly Boxer: Theocritus Idyll 22.134”; D. R. Shackleton Bailey, “Comm. Pet. 10”; W. S. Watt, “Notes on Seneca De Beneficiis, De Clementia, and Dialogi”; and Shirley Werner, “On the History of the Commenta Bernensia and the Adnotationes super Lucanum.”
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The Poetics of Derek Walcott
Intertextual Perspectives, Volume 96
Gregson Davis
Duke University Press
The essays collected in this issue offer complementary critical perspectives on the mature lyric work of Derek Walcott, the acclaimed Nobel laureate from the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. The centerpiece of the ensemble is a previously unpublished essay in which Walcott’s reflections on poetics illuminate his project in the masterpiece, Omeros.
Other contributions by literary scholars in North America and the Caribbean focus on fundamental dimensions of Walcott’s craft and on such thematic preoccupations as the intersection of pictorial and verbal modes of representation, the deployment of nuanced intertextual strategies (especially in relation to the Greco-Roman canon), the invention of a viable artistic identity in a postcolonial intercultural milieu, and the psychosocial modeling of the process of literary apprenticeship.

Contributors. Edward Baugh, Peter Burian, Gregson Davis, Carol Dougherty, Joseph Farrell, Judith Harris, Timothy Hofmeister, Derek Walcott

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