XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics, 1997–2010 (ed. Mark Nowak)

XCP Nº18, 2007

Reissues is thrilled to partner with Open Door Archive (ed. Harris Feinsod et al.) to cohost the digital afterlife of the extraordinary journal, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics (ed. Mark Nowak). If ever a journal might inspire elaborate forms of postdigital crossposting, it’s this one. XCP likely needs no introduction to readers of Jacket2. Over thirteen years and across twenty-three stacked issues, XCP forged a network of global poetics and protest rarely seen in an editorial project.


Indeed, few journals have left such a lasting impact on the field of poetry and poetics, not just on the local conversations in the US and the Americas, but in their crosscultural connections to a planetary conception of resistance via poetic practice. In many ways, XCP also bridges the collection here at Reissues: between the ethnopoetics of magazines like Alcheringa and New Wilderness Letter and global poetics projects around the turn of the millennium like Aufgabe and CalqueIn league with our colleagues at Open Door, we’ll introduce the journal in its own words, excerpted below and adapted from the XCP about page around the time of the closure of the journal.

As always, full issues are available for download or browsing below. The index to each issue attempts to retain the formatting of the contents as printed in the magazine, including original pagination. Each PDF is fully searchable for easy navigation to individual pieces within the magazine. A special thank you is owed to the brilliant Megan Anderson for her work on XCP — the Reissues side of this partnership would not be possible without her help. 

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics began in the mid-1990s as a journal of social utterance and social inscription that sought to open and engage a dialogue between writers, researchers, and theorists in the creative arts, social sciences, political economy, and cultural studies. Its first issues included an expansive array of new works from emerging and established writers such as Amiri Baraka, Diane Glancy, U Sam Oeur, and Edwin Torres as well as translations of writings from the Spanish, Chinese, Khmer, and Tohono O’odham. Issues during the late 1990s focused on central concerns in social documentation and ethnographic praxis, including features on “Fieldnotes & Notebooks” (XCP no 3), Dialogical Anthropology (XCP no 5), “Documentary” (XCP no 6), and “Everyday Life” (XCP no 7).

In response to the perceived retreat of social movements in post-9/11 America, XCP expanded its concerns to include more creative and scholarly work addressing the articulation of literature and social movements: Bruce Campbell’s essay “Assembly Poetics in the Global Economy: Nicaragua” (XCP no 10, early 2002), reviews of books like Nancy Chang’s Silencing Political Dissent: How Post-September 11 Anti-Terrorism Measures Threaten Our Civil Liberties, and a special “Third Millennium Red” issue in late 2004 serve as examples.

During the second half of the twentieth century’s first decade, we continued to expand our issues (and double issues) with features on “Word” (an XCP-style remake of Raymond Williams’ classic Keywords), a special 20th issue comprised of micro-essays on the theme “Cross Cultural Poetics,” and a final issue of the decade on “South Africa: Literature and Social Movements.” With issue 23, “Social Studies,” founding editor Mark Nowak continued the magazine from a new home at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY. Issues 24 and 25 on pedagogy and “China: Literature and Social Movements” were planned but never published. Reviewing XCP’s inaugural issue, Juan Felipe Hererra wrote: “Welcome to a Writer’s Manual on how to detonate the Master Axis of Big Brother Narratives.” (Adapted from the XCP About page last accessed Dec 15, 2020)

 

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 1 (1997)  [PDF, 81 MB]

   

Contents 

X-Section

 

 

Amiri Baraka

What is Undug Will Be

7

 

from Speech

13

 

Re: Port

14

Maria Damon

When the NuYoricans Came to Town: (Ex)Changing Poetics

16

Lise McCloud

Mixed American Pak: National Holiday Thunder Chrysanthemum With Pearls & Reports

41

 

 

 

Multilingual and Translated Poetries

 

 

Solomon Deressa

fragments form the Horn

61

 

The Poem Sheathed

67

Walker K. Lew

1983

70

Ofelia Zepeda

DA:M KA:CIM HIHIMDAM / Those That Walk The Earth

78

 

JEWED ’I-HOI / Riding The Earth

82

Elizabeth Burns

el puente / the bridge

84

Diane Glancy

nahna adulvdi gesvi / of that wanting which is 

85

Edwin Torres

Seeds Sown Long Ago: Are You The Layer?

89

 

Taxi-Toxic-Tiction

92

 

Planet Concertina

93

Alejandro Aura (translated by Forrest Gander)

from Fuentes

95

 

 

 

Reviews

 

 

Michael Heller

Anthropology and Literature

105

Bonnie D. Irwin

The Dialogic Emergence of Culture

108

Kim Koch

Fictions of Feminist Ethnography

112

David Michalski

Things As They Are: New Directions in Phenomenological Anthropology

118

Dan Featherston

Home Places: Contemporary Native American Writing from Sun Tracks

122

 

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 2 (1998)  [PDF, 70 MB]

     

Contents

History/ In/ Heritance

 

 

Juan Felipe Herrera

Cilantroman: A Performance Cocina

7

 

Canto for Chan Ki’n Viejo…

20

Zhang Er (translated by the author and Leonard Schwartz)

The Fifth Direction

26

Chung Na Yei

Departure

28

U Sam Oeur

Work at the Douglas Corporation…

30

 

Neo-Pol Pot: 1979-91

34

Wai-lim Yip

Condemned to Cultural Displacements: The Case of Modern China

38

Paul Naylor

On Certainty (Part Three: Memphis, Capital of North Mississippi)

51

Jeff Derksen

I Need to Know If This Is Normal

63

Fernand Roqueplan

Flat, Silent Soda

76

 

A Thousand Cranes

77

 

Fifty-Six Churches

78

Lise McCloud

Highway 75

79

Hilton Obenzinger

Writing (In) the Past

80

Diane Glancy

The Woman Who Was A Red Deer Dressed For The Deer Dance

88

Victoria Lena Manyarrows

The Language of Endangerment

105

 

 

 

Reviews

 

 

Thomas Biolsi

Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century

109

Susan M. Schultz

The Spanish American Roots of William Carlos Williams

113

Yunte Huang

Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization

116

Kathleen Stewart

The Magic of the State

121

Elizabeth Burns

Panoramas and Cantos to Blood & Honey

123

 

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 3 (1998)  [PDF, 92 MB]

     

Contents

Fieldnotes & Notebooks

 

 

Che Qianzi

Hand-Copied Paperback

7

Fred Wah

from “China Journal”

12

Dhann Polnau

Notebooks

27

Allison Hedge Coke

New Flash: Tagging Death

32

Lila Abu-Lughod

On Photographs, Fieldnotes, and Participant-Observation

34

Mark Nowak

“Back Me Up”

42

Elaine Equi

Blue Notes

72

Carolyn Erler

Notebooks

75

Carolyn Lei-lanilau

Parabalabia(id): the 21th generation

80

Jack Turner

Field Report

98

Roger Sanjek

What Ethnographies Leave Out

99

 

 

 

Reviews

 

 

David Michalski

After Writing Culture: Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology

115

Deborah Reed-Danahay 

Rootprints: Memory and Life Writing

119

Paul Naylor

Paul Metcalf—Collected Works, Volume One: 1956-1976

122

Hilton Obenzinger

Paul Metcalf—Collected Works, Volume Two: 1976-1986

126

Jefferson Hansen

Paul Metcalf—Collected Works, Volume Three 1987-1997

130

Tsianina Lomawaima

Indians and Anthropologists: Vine Deloria Jr. & the Critique of Anthropology

133

Maria Damon

The Journal of John Wieners / is to be called / 707 Scott Street

137

 

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 4 (1999)  [PDF, 96 MB]

  

Contents

Voyage/Voyageur/Voyeur

 

 

Kamau Brathwaite

Scapeghost(s)

7

Terry Temescu

Itinerary

28

Roy Miki

fool’s scold, 1.4.97

36

Piotr Gwiazda

The Guest of Literature: The Issue of Hospitality in Literary Translation

40

Rachel Blau DuPlessis

from Draft 33: Deixis

46

Lyle Daggett

mythology

51

Mariela Gil Sánchez (translated by Jen Hofer)

Otel sin H

52

Leonard Schwartz

Elations

54

Ellen Strain

Hyphenated Anthropologists, Tourist Stand-ins, and the Logic of the Repeat Journey

60

Sandy Feinstein 

Tracked: Costa Rica, Kansas, Peru

78

Juliana Spahr

gathering palolo stream

80

Gerald Vizenor

The Elevator Shaman

84

Hank Lazer

from The Abacos

93

May Joseph

Asian Mysticism and Soho Chic

98

Edwin Torres

from Underneath the Southern Cross: The Diary of a Journey

105

Will Alexander

Water as a Dysphoric Medium 

112

 

Mirage Evinced Across the Thalassic

114

 

 

 

Reviews

 

 

Michelle Stewart

Delivering Views: Distant Cultures in Early Postcards

119

Stephen Cope

Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word and Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies

123

Toral Gajarawala

Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science

128

Diane Glancy

A Long Way from St. Louie

132

 

Blue Marrow

133

Eric Lorberer

Just In: Word of Navigational Challenges: New and Selected Work

135

Amitava Kumar

Border Theory: The Limits of Cultural Politics

140

John Bradley

The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998

144

David Michalski

Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage

147

Julia Van Cleve

Stigmata: Escaping Texts

150

 

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 5 (1999)  [PDF, 110 MB]

    

Contents

Dia/Logos: Speaking Across

 

 

Guillermo Gómez-Peña & Frederick Luis Aldama

The New Millennial Xicano: An Interview with Guillermo Gómez-Peña

7

Sianne Ngai

Orientation

12

Wang Ping

Chinese Bathroom

14

Eleni Sikelianos 

Essay: 13 Pressure Points Inside The Skull

22

Elaine Pigeon

Michel Tremblay’s Hosanna and the Queering of National Identity

23

Mickey Jenkins

Flirt-Wife and Love-Whack, How:

41

John Olson

Crewel Embroidery

42

George Kalamaras

Mirrors in the Medulla: A Coroner’s Interview with the Exhumed Corpse of Gerard de Nerval During a Delayed Autopsy

43

Laurie Price

Tick

47

Rafeeq Hasan

Slipping into the Easy India…

48

Zhang Er (translated by the author and Susan M. Schultz)

NuWa Jing Wei (the baby girl, Jing Wei)

55

Sterling Plumpp

Five Poems

57

John Taggart

from When The Saints (Part Three)

73

Nathaniel Mackey

Song of the Andoumboulou: 42

90

 

 

 

Anthropology/Poetry/Poetics: A Special Nathaniel Tarn Section

 

Nathaniel Tarn

from Ecce Homo Martin (1983)

97

Shamoon Zamir

Scandals in the House of Anthropolog: notes toward a reading of Nathaniel Tarn

99

Christopher Funkhouser

Scandals in the House of Birds: Shamans and Priest on Lake Atitlán (a review)

123

Peter O’Leary

Rus: An Interview with Nathaniel Tarn

125

 

 

 

Reviews

 

 

Jessica Cattelino

Exotics at Home: Anthropologies, Others, American Modernity

137

David Michalski

The Practice of Everyday Life, Volume 2: Living and Cooking

141

Anna Reckin

Voice-Over

145

Maria Damon

Race Traitor 9/Surrealist Issue

149

Jon Spayde 

The Scandals of Translation

153

Jordan Davis

Review Essay: A. L. Nielsen and Kimiko Hahn

157

Julia Van Cleve

Deleuze and Guattari: New Mappings in Politics, Philosophy, and Culture

162

 

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 6 (2000)  [PDF, 117 MB]

     

Contents

(Documentary)

 

 

C.S. Giscombe

from Inland

7

Ed Pavlić

“Come on in my kitchen”: Asymmetry, Angularity, and Incremental Repetition in Zora Neale Hurston’s Diasporic Modernism

10

Tirtza Even

(Documentary) Gallery One

20

Deborah Meadows

from antiself.doc

32

Jason Nelson

Unambiguous and Basic

38

 

Seven Series Eight

39

Paul Naylor

Some Assembly Required: Paul Metcalf’s Rhizomatic Machines

40

Jonathan Monroe 

from Demonsthenes’ Dictionary

59

Everett Hoagland

dot dis:

61

Christof Migone

Ricochets, or How the Bullet Skips to the Tune of the Phonograph

63

Walter K. Lew

from Seoul kihaeng

77

Phil Young

(Documentary) Gallery Two, “Genuine Indian Burial Site at Starrs”

80

Guillermo Juan Parra

Ancestors

96

 

Chapoquoit II

97

Mary Kasimor

Chaplin’s Machinery 

99

 

Disembodied Relationship

100

 

Made

101

Mary Weems

Needles and Pins

102

 

Not Hatred

103

 

Graffiti

104

 

Inspiration

105

Jeffery Renard Allen

Hush Arbor — for Mahalia Jackson 

106

Alan Gilbert

Poetry and Reportage: Andrew Schelling’s The Road to Ocosingo

111

 

 

 

Reviews

 

 

David Michalski

Collecting Visible Evidence

125

Stephen Cope

Poetic Culture: Contemporary American Poetry between Community and Institution

129

Jefferson Hansen 

Blues Narratives and Jumping the Line

133

Julia Van Cleve

Gilles Deleuze and the Ruin of Representation

136

Robin Ann Lukes

The Politics of Fieldwork: Research in an American Concentration Camp

143

Elizabeth Burns

Collected Poems (Madeline Gleason) and Midwinter Day

147

Michelle Stewart

Feminism and Documentary and For Documentary: Twelve Essays

151

Chistopher Winks

Poetic Investigations: Singing the Holes in History

156

Mark Nowak

Critical Vehicles: Writings, Projects, Interviews and Object to be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark

160

 

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 7 (2000)  [PDF, 119 MB]

     

Contents

“Everyday Life”

 

 

Kathleen Stewart

Death Sightings

7

Diane Glancy

Tongues

12

 

Velcro

13

 

Retrieval

14

 

I am your true woman, Blinky

15

Harryette Mullen

X-ray Vision

16

 

Present Tense

17

Wing Young Huie

“Everyday Life,” Gallery One “Lakestreet, U.S.A.”

18

Michael Sheringham

Michel de Certeau: The Logic of Everyday Practices

28

John Harvey

The Decline and Fall of the Silver Glo Motel

44

Rae Armantrout

The Cell Phone At Your Ear May Not Exist

45

 

Yet

46

Chad Sellers

from (poverty of such)

48

Ray DiPalma

August 4—August 7, 2000

50

Bill Brown

Henri Lefebvre’s The Production of Space

52

Jamason Chen

“Everyday Life,” Gallery Two “The Story of the Coat”

62

Mytili Jagannathan

Twenty-Eight Happy: Seven (Diss)Courses for Emily Z.

71

Justin Chin

Pandora’s Box of Shrimp Chow-Fun

75

Kamau Brathwaite

Esplanade Poem

84

Ben Highmore

 ‘Opaque, Stubborn Life’: Everyday Life and Resistance in the Work of Michel de Certeau

89

G.E. Patterson

from New York Suite

101

 

from Give or Take

105

Theodore Enslin

Moon Change

108

Nicole Brossard (translated by Rosmarie Waldrop)

Theater: Speed of Water

114

 

 

 

Reviews

 

 

Christopher Winks

Édouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance [Celia M. Britton]

123

Karlyn Koh

Faking It: Poetics & Hybridity (Critical Writing 1984-1999) [Fred Wah]

129

Marcella Durand

Bliss to Fill [Prageeta Sharma] and The Kingdom of the Subjunctive [Suzanne Wise]

132

Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali

Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America [Martin F. Manalansan IV, ed.]

136

Najat Rahman

Dear Mr. Kawabata [Rashid Al-Daif] and Sherazade: Missing: aged 17, dark curly hair, green eyes [Leila Sebbar]

140

Edwin Torres

Thunderweavers and Lotería Cards and Fortune Poems [Juan Felipe Herrera]

144

Kelly Everding

Translating the Unspeakable: Poetry and the Innovative Necessity [Kathleen Fraser]

148

Julia Van Cleve

Deleuzism [Ian Buchanan] and Proust and Signs [Gilles Deleuze]

152

David Michalski

The Arcades Project [Walter Benjamin]

159

Roberto Tejada

Turtle Pictures [Ray Gonzalez] and Point and Line [Thalia Field]

166

 

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 8 (2001)  [PDF, 102 MB]

     

Contents

“Authenticating (Dis)Location/(Dis)Locating Authenticity”

 

Wang Ping

Mixed Blood

7

Mark McMorris

Postcolonial “A”? Empire & Nation in Louis Zukofsky’s American Movements, A-14—A-17

11

Hoa Nguyen

[Years after stealing cattle from the womb]

23

 

I Woke Up This Morning And It Was Friday

24

 

Mission Dolores

25

 

Lozenge

26

May Joseph

Hanoi Palimpsest

27

Kazim Ali

Sughra Kirmani:

40

 

Juan Gris/le livre

42

Taj Jackson

Flock To

43

Cecilia Vicuña 

[Gallery]

44

Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino

William 

55

Lise Erdrich

Great Love Poems of the State Hospital

57

Kamau Brathwaite

Film Studies +2 +3

59

Everett Hoagland

language doodle: on a post-lunch napkin

78

Alan Gilbert

“There’s no center where / similarity would begin”: C.S. Giscombe’s Giscome Road and Here

80

Deborah Richards

from The Beauty Projection

93

Kenneth Sherwood

from Mud Tablet (Tableta de barro)

98

Ruth Now

124 seconds of Surviving the Dustbowl

103

Leslie Scalapino

from The Tango

105

Rosamond S. King

Rules of Order

111

 

Indigenous

113

 

(is) there a choice

114

 

 

 

Reviews

 

 

Huda Seif

The Pre-Occupation of Postcolonial Studies [Fawzia Afzal-Khan and Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks, editors]

117

Ramez Qureshi

Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality and Experimental Writing [Nathaniel Mackey]

122

Rafeeq Hasan

Passport Photos [Amitava Kumar]

126

Lisa Jarnot

The Wireless Room [Shane Rhodes] and Echo Regime [John Olson]

130

Aldon Nielsen

Transfigurations: Collected Poems [Jay Wright]

134

Peter O’Leary

Living Root: A Memoir [Michael Heller]

137

Julia Van Cleve

(Dis)figurations [Ian Angus] and Empire [Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri]

142

Biodun Iginla

Edward Said and the Work of the Critic: Speaking the Truth to Power [Paul Bové, editor]

151

Juan Obarrio

States of Emergency: Documentaries, War, Democracies [Patricia Zimmermann]

155

David Michalski

The Ends of Globalization [Mohammed A. Bamyeh] and Cultural Studies and Political Theory [Jodi Dean, editor]

159

Maria Damon

Dyssemia Sleaze [Adeena Karasick] and hovercraft [K. Silem Muhammad]

163

 

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 9 (2001)  [PDF, 111 MB]

     

Contents 

Writing (Working) Class

 

 

Ole Gram

Left Hook: Brecht, Boxing, and Committed Art

7

Jena Osman

from Press Scrutiny: The Doubles

17

Curtis Crisler

Red-Brick Dust 

20

 

3 steps over

21

Amiri Baraka

Wooden Negroes Appear At A Slam

24

 

Rhythm & Rime

27

Tisa Bryant

from Playing House

31

Paulette Myers-Rich

Gallery

40

Rodrigo Toscano

Jukebox Selection, A Brick and Mortar Remembrance (following a conversation with a Local 4-121 pensioner)

49

 

Ideo-Degradable Verses from Immokalee (for Lucas Benitez)

51

 

General Secretary Lula’s Last Stand?

55

Jeff Derksen

As Ideology: Denaturalized Globalization and Articulatory Poetics

58

Mark Nowak

$OO / Line / Steel / Train

66

Pauline Butling

Writing as social practice (Writing Class: The Kootenay School of Writing Anthology)

85

Allison Hedge Coke

Four Corner Nabs

93

Elizabeth Willis

Possessing Possession: Lorine Niedecker, Folk, and the Allegory of Making

97

 

 

 

Reviews

 

 

Johanna Brenner [a review by Rebecca Scherr]

Women and the Politics of Class

109

Bryan K. Garman [a review by Steven Garabedian]

A Race of Singers: Whitman’s Working-Class Hero from Guthrie to Springsteen

114

Frank Stanford [a review by Eric Lorberer]

The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You

118

bell hooks [a review by Gabrielle Civil]

Where We Stand: Class Matters

124

Michael Perelman [a review by Bill Brown]

The Invention of Capitalism

129

Juliana Spahr [a review by Elisabeth Frost]

Everybody’s Autonomy: Connective Reading and Collective Identity

136

Wanda Coleman [a review by Mary E. Weems]

Mercurochrome

140

J.K. Gibson-Graham, Stephen Resnick, and Richard Wolff, eds. [a review by Mark Soderstrom]

Re/Presenting Class: Essays in Postmodern Marxism

146

Richard Iton [a review by David Michalski]

Solidarity Blues: Race, Culture and the American Left

151

Clarence Major [a review by Joel Bettridge]

Necessary Distance

156

Susan Zlotnick [a review by Deirdre Murphy]

Women, Writing, and the Industrial Revolution

160

Frances Chung [a review by Heather Nagami]

Crazy Melon and Chinese Apple

165

 

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 10 (2002)  [PDF, 110 MB]

     

Contents

• Articulation • Alterity •

 

 

Bruce Campbell

Assembly Poetics in the Global Economy: Nicaragua 

7

Ranjani Neriya

Transparencies 

29

 

Aquarelle

30

May Mahala

DIVING: “A one-act play”

31

Jeffery Renard Allen

He Was Like Us: A War Story

48

Theodore Harris & Amiri Baraka

Gallery

50

Edwin Torres

Song of the Red Lamb

58

Craig Dworkin

Five Words In A Stein

59

Ulf Cronquist

“White Male Heterosexual Author Seeks…”: The Articulation of Queer Performativity Between Men in Leonard Cohen’s Beautiful Losers

67

Rosmarie Waldrop

We Will Always Ask, What Happened?

74

Frederick Luis Aldama

An Interview with Ntozake Shange

75

Peter O’Leary

“Peace On Earth?”: John Taggart’s Poem in Circular Motion

83

John Taggart

Car Museum

93

Elizabeth Robinson

The Little Matchgirl

97

Kristina Chew

Grafting as Comparative Literature: Virgil’s Georgics and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée

102

Bing He

Untitled Apples

116

Norma Cole

Like a Fish in a Dumpster

118

Arthur Sze

The Thermos

119

 

Ice Line

120

 

 

 

Reviews

 

 

Victor Hernández Cruz [a review by George Kalamaras]

Maraca: New and Selected Poems 1965-2000

123

Bei Dao [a review by Wang Ping]

At the Sky’s Edge: Poems 1991-1996

129

Bud Schultz and Ruth Schultz, eds. [a review by Mark Soderstrom]

The Price of Dissent: Testimonies to Political Repression in America

131

Antonio José Ponte; Plays by Julio Matas, Carlos Felipe, and Virgilio Piñera; Reina María Rodríguez [a review by Deborah Meadows]

In the Cold of the Malecón; Three Masterpieces of Cuban Drama:; La detención del tiempo/Time’s Arrest

135

Alice Notley [a review by Kazim Ali]

Disobedience

141

Georges Bataille [a review by David Michalski]

The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge

147

Arjun Appadurai, editor [a review by Jeff Derksen]

Globalization

151

Jerry Gafio Watts [a review by Aldon Nielsen]

Amiri Baraka: The Politics and Art of a Black Intellectual

156

Beth Anderson [a review by Rusty Morrison]

The Habitable World

159

Richard Younker [a review by Patrick Lohier]

Chicago People

163

  

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 11 (2002)  [PDF, 139 MB]

     

Contents

Writing “Home”

 

 

Kimiko Hahn 

The Orient

7

 

Utica Station, Dep. 10:07 a.m. to N.Y. Penn Station

12

 

Sparrow

15

Heriberto Yepez

Babellebab

23

Will Alexander

from Concerning the Hebane Bird 

37

Rodrigo Toscano

from SATIRE No. 4, “In-Formational Forum RousersArcing”

45

Heather Nagami

Acts of Translation

51

Yong Soon Min and Allan de Souza

Gallery

63

Craig Watson

from Where/As: Ecuador

73

Wang Ping

Outskirts

81

 

Our Teacher of Marxism and Leninism

83

Nora Ruth Roberts

Meridel Le Sueur: An interview conducted in the home of Le Sueur’s daughter, Rachel Tilsen, in St. Paul, MN., Summer 1994

84

Rick Mitchell

Brecht in L.A.

100

 

 

 

Reviews

 

 

Roy Miki [a review by Glen Lowry]

Surrender

163

Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel, editors [a review by Robin Ann Lukes]

Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky

172

Rodrigo Toscano [a review by Mark Wallace]

The Disparities

174

Piya Chatterjee [a review by Monika Mehta]

A Time for Tea: Women, Labor, and Post/ Colonial Politics on an Indian Tea Plantation

178

Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard; Francisco X. Alarcón [a review by Sun Yung Shin]

alchemies of distance; From the Other Side of Night/Del otro lado de la noche: New and Selected Poems

183

Yunte Huang [a review by  Eleana Kim]

Transpacific Displacement: Ethnography, Translation, and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature

187

Bhanu Kapil Rider [a review by Kazim Ali]

The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers

193

Krzysztof Ziarek [a review by Julia Van Cleve]

The Historicity of Experience: Modernity, the Avant-Garde, and the Event 

197

Kamau Brathwaite [a review by Aldon Lynn Nielsen]

Ancestors; Words Need Love Too

203

Randy Martin [a review by Mark Soderstrom]

On Your Marx

211

Juliana Spahr [a review by Renee Gladman]

Fuck You—Aloha—I Love You

216

Chris Kraus and Sylvére Lotringer, editors [a review by Marcus Boon]

Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) Reader

220

  

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 12 (2003)  [PDF, 126 MB]

     

Contents 

Ethnographic Past(iche)

 

 

George E. Marcus

On the Unbearable Slowness of Being an Anthropologist Now: Notes on a Contemporary Anxiety in the Making of Ethnography

7

Myung Mi Kim

from Penury

21

Ammiel Alcalay

from scene of the crime

27

Maria Damon

Some Discourses on/of the Divided Self: Lyric, Ethnography and Loneliness

31

Adrienne Rich

This Evening Let’s

61

Kirin Narayan

Don’t Be Simple, Be Complex

63

Duane Niatum

Girl with Yellow Monkey-flowers in Her Hair

67

Piya Chatterjee

Staging A Time for Tea: Theater and Poetry in Writing the Plantation

72

Thien-bao Phi

FOBulous

79

Tan Lin

Eleven Minute Painting: Reading Module v 0.1

81

Nicholas Lawrence

World Echoes: Caribbeanness as Method

85

Dale Smith

from The Idealist

94

Mark Soderstrom

Red Americanism Struggling to Control the Narrative: Conflict, Disjuncture and Patriotism in the Oral Life Story and Trial Documents of a Minnesota Communist

98

 

 

 

Reviews

 

 

Adam Jones [a review by Bruce Campbell]

Beyond the Barricades: Nicaragua and the Struggle for the Sandinista Press, 1979-1998

109

Wendy Rose [a review by Kimberly TallBear]

Itch Like Crazy

114

E. San Juan Jr. [a review by Charlie Samuyaveric]

Racism and Cultural Studies: Critiques of Multiculturalist Ideology and the Politics of Difference

122

Elizabeth McHenry [a review by Pamela R. Fletcher]

Forgotten Reader: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies

129

Nathaniel Tarn [a review by Peter O’Leary]

Selected Poems: 1950-2000

134

Michèle H. Richman [a review by David Michalski]

Sacred Revolutions: Durkheim and the Collège de Sociologie

138

Ammeil Alcalay [a review by Jane Sprague]

from the warring factions

142

Edited by Josephine Lee, Imogene L. Lim, and Yuko Matsukawa [a review by Sun Yung Shin]

Re/collecting Early Asian America: Essays in Cultural History

147

Christian Bök [a review by Christophe Wall-Romana] 

Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science

150

T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting [a review by Gabrielle Civil]

Negritude Women

154

Hoa Nguyen [a review by Lisa Jarnot]

Your Ancient See Through

159

Kate A. Baldwin [a review by Christopher Winks]

Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters Between Black and Red, 1922-1963

163

 

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 13 (2003)  [PDF, 112 MB]

     

Contents 

Poets’ Theater/People’s Theater

 

 

Alan Filewod

People’s Theatre, People’s Army: Masculinism, Agitprop, Reenactment

7

Beth Cleary

Break

21

Amiri Baraka

Skin Trouble: A Play in One Act

39

Beth Cherne

Taking the Stage: Theatre by and for the Working Class during the Depression Era

58

Sparrow

At War

67

Gabrielle Civil

Infestation of Gnats

82

Josephine Lee

Racial Actors, Liberal Myths

88

Tracie Morris

Afrofuturistic

111

Bob Holman

Apocalypse Eternity

126

 

 

 

Reviews

 

 

Chandra Talpade Mohanty [a review by Anjali Nerlaker]

Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity

129

Kevin Wetmore, Jr. [a review May Mahala]

Black Dionysus: Greek Tragedy and African American Theatre

133

Nancy Chang and the Center for Constitutional Rights; David Cole and James X. Dempsey [a review Jules Boykoff]

Silencing Political Dissent: How Post-September 11 Anti-Terrorism Measures Threaten Our Civil Liberties; Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security

138

Max Shachtman [a review Yuichiro Onishi]

Race and Revolution

146

Kelly Stuart; Pedro Pietri [a review Sun Yung Shin]

Demonology; The Masses are Asses

151

Texts collected by Dark Star [a review Yedda Morrison]

Quiet Rumours: An Anarcha-Feminist Reader

155

Emilio Bejel [a review Frederick Luis Aldama]

The Write Way Home: A Cuban-American Story

159

Amitava Kumar, editor [a review David Buuck]

World Bank Literature

162

Alan Gilbert

The Future Is a Wish: Emily Jacir Travels Tight Spaces

168

 

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 14 (2004)  [PDF, 123 MB]

     

Contents 

Third Millennium Red 

 

 

Emelihter Kihleng

Micronesian Diaspora(s)

7

Rod Hernandez

Pocho-Che and the Production of a Transnational/Transcultural Poetics

14

Rita Wong

quotidian terror

39

 

agricoda

40

Radha D’Souza

The World Social Forum Revisited: Back to Basics?

41

Kevin Coval

hip-hop poetica #1: macro n micro cosmos definite

46

Kamau Brathwaite

This sweet windperson poem

48

Tyrone Williams

A Day To Remember 

58

 

Another Day In Heaven, Another Day on Earth

59

 

Faux Ersatz

60

Bob Harrison

macaw, for the island

61

 

American friendly

63

Toni Solo

The “free trade” history eraser: Honduras, maquilas and popular protest in Latin America

64

Louis Cabri

After 1923: “The Social Command”

71

Stacy Szymaszek

auction

86

Sudhanva Deshpande

A World of Difference

89

Jeremy Cronin

The Tide Has Turned

93

 

Hypothetically

94

 

Things are not as bad as they say

95

Qadri Ismail

Towards A Critique of Anthropology

97

Sun Yung Shin

KUAI-ZI

117

 

 

 

Reviews

 

 

Ruth Needleman; Mary Margaret Fornow [a review by Peter Rachleff]

Black Freedom Fighters in Steel: The Struggle for Democratic Unionism; Union Women: Forging Feminism in the United Steelworkers of America

121

Marc Nichanian, editor (with the collaboration of Vartan Matiossian) [a review by Khachig Tololyan]

Yeghishe Charents: Poet of the Revolution

126

Barbara Foley [a review by Aldon Lynn Nielsen]

Spectres of 1919: Class and Nation in the Making of the New Negro

131

David Harvey [a review by David Michalski]

Paris, Capital of Modernity

134

Susie S. Porter [a review by Bruce Campbell]

Working Women in Mexico City: Public Discourses and Material Conditions, 1879-1930

139

Laura Elrick; Yedda Morrison [a review by Carol Mirakove]

sKincerity; Crop

143

Linh Dinh [a review by Jane Sprague]

All Around What Empties Out

148

Renée Gladman [a review by Maria Damon]

The Activist

153

Tony Bolden [a review by Pamela R. Fletcher]

Afro-Blue: Improvisations in African American Poetry and Culture

157

Fred Moten [a review by Christopher Winks]

In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition

165

 

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 15-16 (2006)  [PDF, 193 MB]

     

Contents

State / Capital (No. 15)

 

 

Giles Goodland

Working Capital

7

 

Phantom Capital

10

Interview by Sun Yung Shin

Interview with Grace Lee Boggs

13

Amiri Baraka 

Got Any Change?

23

Kendra Fehrer, Photographs by Lisa Arrastía and Mark Nowak

Movement of Unemployed Workers

26

Interview with Toty Flores, of the MTD La Matanza, and Juan Golzman, radio broadcaster

Diario de Redes del Norte: Encuentro de Desocupados 1997

31

Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber

Super Citizen: Caracas, redistributing the city

41

Karen Tei Yamashita

Bread Machine

47

Clarence Major

Kiki’s Intersection

56

Kanishka Goonewardena

What’s in the ‘Full Option’?: On the Passage of Quite a Few Fast Cars Through Some Rather Narrow Streets in Colombo, Sri Lanka

58

Carl Hancock Rux

Mycenaean

69

Randy Martin

Self-Managed Colonialism 

71

Jeff Derksen

Searching Out Locations

98

 

If Rubber Gloving You Is Wrong

100

 

Sometimes I Feel Like I’m Tied to the Local Post

102

Zapatista Army of National Liberation

Zapatista Army of National Liberation: Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandona

104

 

 

 

Reviews

 

 

reviewed by Rita Wong

Woodsquat

117

reviewed by Rosamond S. King

Aberrations In Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique

122

reviewed by Peter O’Leary

Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography

127

reviewed by David Michalski

My Cocaine Museum

137

reviewed by Jane Sprague

Last one out

142

reviewed by Radha D’Souza

Multitude: War and Democracy In The Age of Empire

149

reviewed by Maria Damon

Dancing on Main Street and Prayer to Spider Woman/ Reza a la Mujer Araña 

154

reviewed by Anjali Nerleker

Debating World Literature

163

reviewed by Peter Rachleff

Finally Got The News

168

 

 

 

Word (No. 16)

 

 

 

 

 

Marie Trigona

Alavío

177

Juliana Spahr

Aloha Anger

178

Ammiel Alcalay

Amateur

179

Mike Gonzalez

Anti-Capitalism

180

Michael J. Pikus

Assessment

181

Eleni Stecopoulos

Autoimmunity

182

Pamela R. Fletcher

Bad

183

Deborah Richards

Boo

184

Mark Wallace

Border Class

185

Anna Reckin

Breakdown

186

Said Yusef

Buufis

187

C. Natale Peditto

Chatter

188

Fred Wah

Citizen

189

Mary E. Weems

Colorblind

190

Alan Filewod

Community

191

A.G. Cruz

Compañero

192

Eric Elshtain

Computational Poetics

193

Allison Hedge Coke

Congenital Memory

194

Giles Goodland

Consumee

195

Mike Goodman

Consumption

196

Michael Davidson

Cosmopolitan

197

David Michalski

Cosmoplastic

198

Jane Sprague

Cultural Workers

199

Michael Barnholden

Dehorn

200

Yuichiro Onishi

Diaspora

201

Jules Boykoff

Dissent

202

Phoua Her

Education

203

Christophe Wall-Romana

Embarrassment 

204

Roger Farr

Enclosure

205

Greg Hewett

Eros

206

Tony Trehy

Eugenics

207

Kristin Prevallet

Force

208

Dennis B. Teichman

Forensic Eloquence

209

Lisa Arrastía

Gangster

210

Max Boykoff

Global Warming

211

Bruce Campbell

God

212

Amiri Baraka

God

213

Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro

Government

214

Sparrow

Henry

215

James Thomas Stevens

Historiscape

216

Heriberto Yépez

Hybrid

217

Sesshu Foster

Hypnopompic

218

Deborah Meadows

Icons, Iconoclasts

219

Frederick Luis Aldama

Ideology

220

Patrick F. Durgin

Indeterminacy

221

Ricardo Levins Morales

Integrity

222

Ted Pearson

Intellectual Property

223

Peter O’Leary

Islam

224

Rodrigo Toscano

“It’s Too Early to Say”

225

Fadumo Adan

Jihad

226

Ron Silliman

Journalism

227

Kevin Coval

Kike

228

Aaron Vidaver

Lumpenproletariat

229

Amina Haji

Mahadsanid

230

Jen Hofer

Manner, Manners

231

Sheila Lloyd

Melancholia

232

Emelihter Kihleng

Micronesian

233

kanarinka

Microperformance

234

Maria Damon

Micropoetries

235

Piotr Gwiazda

Migrant

236

David Roediger

Miserabilism

237

Annee Cha 

Mob Qhoy Quav

238

Idris Goodwin

Monotical

239

Joel Allegretti

Mosque

240

Everett Hoagland

Motherfucker

241

Jennifer Uhlich

Mundane

242

Fred Ho

National Oppression

243

Yedda Morrison

Nature

244

Ethan Paquin

Neighborhood Plan 

245

Rafael Ortiz

Neoliberalism

246

C. S. Giscombe

North

247

Paula Rabinowitz

Object

248

Diane Glancy

Ou’Wash

249

Rosamond S. King

Performance, Perform

250

Ed Pavlic

Phoneme Death

251

Denni Somera

Privile Giver

252

Carol Mirakove

Propaganda

253

Roderick Ferguson

Race

254

John J. Trause

Real

255

Christopher Winks

Red

256

David Landrey

Rendition, Extraordinary

257

Mayra Luna

Rights

258

Laura Elrick

Security

259

Robert Fitterman

Shopping

260

Stephanie Gray

Slumming

261

Adrienne Rich

Social Practice

262

Craig Dworkin

Spectacle

263

Kimiko Hahn

Spin

264

Reg Johanson

Standard English

265

Jane Jeong Trenka and Sun Yung Shin

Supply

266

Don LaCoss

Surrealism

267

Dennis Formento

Surregionalism

268

John Landry

Syphilization

269

May Joseph

Transpolitanism

270

Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber

Transformative Urbanism

271

Jason Evans

Treaty (Indigenous Treatment)

272

Christine Hume

Uncanny

273

Frank Cunningham, IBEW Local 134

Union

274

Jeff Derksen

Universal Cultural Imperialism

275

Kevin Nolan

War

276

Edwin Starr

War

277

Shana L. Redmond

War on Terrorism

278

Shyamal Bagchee

Word

279

Adam Siegel

Xenography

280

 

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 17 (2007)  [PDF, 101 MB]

     

Contents

Katherine McKittrick

I Entered the Lists…Diaspora Catalogues: The List, The Unbearable Territory, and Tormented Chronologies

7

M. Nourbese Philip

Zong! #9-#12

30

Roger Farr

Against Stratification: Dorothy Trujillo Lusk’s Ogress Oblige and the Poetics of Class Recomposition

34

Kamau Brathwaite

Kamau Brathwaite

50

Michael Davidson

The Dream of a Public Language: Modernity, Manifesto, and the Citizen Subject

72

Fred Wah

Three Poems

89

Opal Palmer Adisa

Mother Mushet

92

 

 

 

Reviews

 

 

Michael Parenti [reviewed by Bruce Campbell]

The Culture Struggle

113

Kamau Brathwaite [reviewed by Christopher Winks]

MR: Magical Realism (2 vols.) & Born to Slow Horses

118

Retort (Iain Boll, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews, Michael Watts) [reviewed by Mark Wallace]

Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle In A New Age of War

127

Translated by Peter Green [reviewed by John Bradley]

The Poems of Catullus

131

Joseph H. Lake, Jr. [reviewed by Peter Rachleff]

Friendly Anger: The Rise of the Labor Movement in St. Martin

135

Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey, editors [reviewed by Maria Damon]

Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans

140

David E. Lowes [reviewed by David Michalski]

The Anti-Capitalist Dictionary: Movements, Histories & Motivations

144

 

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 18 (2007)  [PDF, 91 MB]

     

Contents

…News That Stays…

 

 

Adrienne Rich

Three Poems

7

Jaswinder Bolina

Novel

18

Rodrigo Toscano

First Box: A Poetics Theatre Play

21

Paula Boniolo and Rodolfo Elbert 

A working class theory of corruption: Thematic analysis of workers’ ideas about corruption and its consequences

36

Amiri Baraka

“There are some soldiers”

48

Bill King

Blasting Damage

49

Kenny Tanemura

Mao Poems

51

Patricia Smith

For Jermaine, Six, Dead in Boston

57

Barbara Jane Reyes

Story Fragments and Process

58

Duriel Harris

Self-Portrait in Desire

61

Mani Rao

Airing at a sniff

63

Wayde Compton

Loxodromic

64

Tyrone Williams 

“Apparently I am picking fights”: Cultural Studies and Poetics Mix It Up in Taylor Brady’s Yesterday’s News

66

Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Draft 79: Mass Observation

78

Renee Gladman

from The Event Factory

84

Stephen Mooney

from District Line Project (Proxy Central Park)

91

Victor Garcia

Señor Sanchez Quotes Himself

93

Kao Kalia Yang

from The Latehomecomer 

94

 

 

 

Book Reviews

 

 

Peter Barry [reviewed by Piers Hugill]

Poetry Wars: British Poetry of the 1970s and the Battle of Earls Court

113

Jonathan Beller [reviewed by Christophe Wall-Ramona]

The Cinematic Mode of Production: Attention Economy and the Society of the Spectacle 

118

Tiya Miles [reviewed by Lisa Arrastía]

Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom

123

[reviewed by Allan Kolski Horwitz]

Is There ‘New’ Poetry in Post-Apartheid South Africa?

132

Stephen Duncombe [reviewed by Jules Boykoff]

Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy

145

 

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 19 (2008)  [PDF, 106 MB]

     

Contents

“Yet Citizen Are You?”

 

 

Scott Bear Don’t Walk

Two Poems

7

Larissa Lai

from Goodbye Butterfly, Hello Kitty: An Opiate Opera

10

Kim Duff

The Spatial Logic of Louis Cabri and Rodrigo Toscano’s Urban Poetics

22

Oliver Ressler

Globalizing Protest (Geneva, 6/2003)

41

Kimiko Hahn

Questions for Calliope

46

Diane Glancy

When the Language Parted

53

Anne Waldman

Two Poems

58

Oliver Ressler

Globalizing Protest (Edinburgh, 7/2005)

73

Bhanu Kapil

from “Humanimal: A Project for Future Children”

77

Kazim Ali 

Cairo

85

Edwin Torres

I Am Trying To Perfect My Assént 

92

Oliver Ressler

Globalizing Protest (Rostock, 6/2007)

95

Shamoon Zamir

Neo-Hoodoo: Proposals for a Literary History

100

 

 

 

Reviews

 

 

Haun Saussy, editor [reviewed by Christopher Winks]

Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization

135

Rachel Zolf [reviewed by Joel Bettridge]

Human Resources

141

John David Rhodes [reviewed by C. Natale Peditto]

Stupendous, Miserable City: Pasolini’s Rome

147

Alan Gilbert [reviewed by Stephen Cope]

Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight

151

Marc Falkoff, editor [reviewed by Maria Damon]

Poems from Guantánamo : The Detainees Speak

155

 

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 20 (2008)  [PDF, 122 MB]

     

Contents

Kazim Ali

The Poetics of Islam

5

Amiri Baraka

Black Power in Newark

8

Susan Briante

“I Did Not Marry Mary Todd” Webs, Red Ink, Highways Laid With Headstones, and Cross-Cultural Investigative Poetics.

18

Maria Damon

State, Condition

23

Jeff Derksen

The Idea of Cross-Culture

27

Patrick F. Durgin

Towards a Post-Ableist Poetics

32

Laura Elrick

De-Sublimated Multi-Lingualisms

37

C. S. Giscombe

Rollsigns/Notes on Transit

41

Diane Glancy

On My Way From One Place to Another in the Sandhills of Central Nebraska on Highway 183 in a New Car With 1016 Miles the Day After I Turned in the Old Car With 198,589 Miles or the Importance of Cross-Cultural Poetics

44

Kimiko Hahn

Feelings—?

47

Duriel Harris

Interdiscourse(s): Poetics & The Cross Cultural (Experiment in Brief)

49

A. A. Hedge Coke

Sway Value: Cross Cultural Poetics

54

Bhanu Kapil

Notes on Failure: A Short Essay on Cross-Cultural Poetics

59

Larissa Lai

Cellular Archive, Landed Militant: Poethic Notes on Asianted Futures

64

Francesco Levato

from War Rug

67

Farid Matuk

The Ungrammatical People: Minstrelsy, Love

80

Joyelle McSweeney and Johannes Göransson

Find Us With The Lemurs: Disability and the Språkgrotesk

84

Deborah Meadows

Notes Toward a Theoretical Exploration of “Contradictions. Irony. Sentimentality.”

89

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Parrotfish, Pachyderms, and Poetry: Writing While Traveling

93

Yuichiro Onishi

Afro-Asian Solidarities and the “Circle of Culture”

97

Mani Rao

Stretch

102

Barbara Jane Reyes

On Feminism, Women of Color, Poetics, and Reticence: Some Considerations

107

Juliana Spahr

from The Incinerator

113

Jane Sprague

A Poetics of Dissent: Labor and IT Exigencies

118

Celina Su 

I Am Your Electric Fan: Or, 13 Ways to Look at a Purported Heart

122

Edwin Torres

Seeker-Crossing in the Age of Glass Machines

129

Rodrigo Toscano

To Become Super-Solid

132

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

Cross Cultural Poetics: Thought-Trafficking and the Plagued Text

138

Fred Wah

Music at the Heart of Thinking 135: The Score

143

Christophe Wall-Romana

Intersentience (Crimes of the Obvious)

147

Mary E. Weems

Echoes: A X-Cultural Response to Guy Senese’s Throwing Voices

153

Tyrone Williams

Problems and Promises of Actually Existing Cross Cultural Poetics

161

Christopher Winks

Many Cultures to Cross

168

Rita Wong

XC-Poetics, or Toward 90 Addresses for a Poem

173

Kao Kalia Yang

The Relationship of Cross-Cultural Poetics

180

Rachel Zolf

A Tenuous We: Writing as Not-Knowing

182

 

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 21-22 (2009)  [PDF, 226 MB]

     

Contents

South Africa: Literature and Social Movements

 

 

Priya Narismulu

“All have joined in the struggle”: The Literature of the United Democratic Front in South Africa

9

Sabelo Mlangeni

All photographs by Sabelo Mlangeni

47 & ff.

Zine Magubane

“Can We AS Mother Not Take Our Fight to the Enemy?”: The Politics of Motherhood in South African Autobiography

48

Pumla Dineo Gqola

“As women we have multiple lives, and we need to honour all of them”: A conversation with Makhosazana Xaba

76

Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi

Usable Past: Language, Oral Tradition, Song, and the Mobilization of Nothern Ndebele Ethnicity in Post-Apartheid South Africa, 1994-2004

85

Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi

“A Native Venture”: Sol (Solomon Tshekisho) Plaatje, Defining South African Literature

118

Vuyisile Msila

The new voices: Poetry as social commentary in the post-Apartheid South Africa

138

Botsotso Jesters

Poetic Script II, III, IV

157

Devarakshanam Govinden

The Mahatma, the Text, and the Critic

163

Osita Ezeliora

The South African Novel after Apartheid: Mphahlele, Mzamane, and Oliphant on the Idiom of Transition

191

Pumla Dineo Gqola

“Pushing out from the centre”: (Black) feminist imagination, redefined politics and emergent trends in South African poetry

214

Kelwyn Sole

“I have learned to hear more acutely”: Aesthetics, Agency and the Reader in Contemporary South African Poetry

240

Dennis Brutus

Sequence for Mumia Abu-Jamal and I Salute the Jacarandas Anyway

268

 

 

 

Reviews

 

 

Martin Murray [reviewed by N. Nieftagodien]

Taming the Disorderly City: The Spatial Landscape of Johannesburg after Apartheid

273

Richard Pithouse, editor [reviewed by Peter Rachleff]

Asinimali: University Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa

280

[reviewed by Simon Lewis]

Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader & Seasonal Fires: New and Selected Poems (Ingrid de Kok)

286

Xolela Mangcu [reviewed by Ashley Gunter]

To The Brink: The State of Democracy in South Africa

293

Boaventura de Sousa Santos, editor & Andrea Cornwall and Vera Schattan Coelho, editors & Xavier de Souza Briggs [reviewed by Celina Su]

Democratizing Democracy: Beyond the Liberal Democratic Canon & Spaces for Change?: The Politics of Citizen Participation in New Democratic Arenas & Democracy as Problem Solving: Civic Capacity in Communities Across the Globe 

297

 

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 23 (2010)  [PDF, 111 MB]

     

Contents

Social Studies

 

 

Tyrone Williams

New Criticism and the Civil Rights Movement : : Identity Politics and the Liberal Arts

9

Soham Patel

Three Poems

30

Kate Eichorn

Multiple Registers of Silence in M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!

33

John-Michael Rivera

Sahagun’s Encyclopedia

40

Hilton Obenzinger

from How We Write: The Varieties of Writing Experience (w/ Renato Rosaldo, Diane Middlebrook, David Henry Hwang, and Larry Susskind)

50

Don Mee Choi

1950 June 28: The Fall of Seoul

59

Mahmoud Darwish (translated by Saifedean Ammous)

from In Praise of the High Shadow

60

Adrienne Rich

Two Poems

64

Philip Metres

“We Build a World”: War Resistance Poetry in/as the First Person Plural

68

Cara Benson

from spreek

79

Aldon Lynn Nielsen

Sit-in at Bullworth’s

83

Arisa White

lion woman

89

Amish Trivedi

The Military Band Organ at the Slater Park Carousel

92

Jake Wilhelmsen

the lion in wait

94

Patricia Smith

Two Poems

103

Timothy Yu

Forgotten Capital: Touring Berlin with John Yau and Bill Barrette

105

 

 

 

Book Reviews

 

 

Teresa L. Ebert [reviewed by Bruce Campbell]

The Task of Cultural Critique

119

Manuel Maples Arce (trans. Brandon Holmquest) [reviewed by Lindsey Freer]

City: Bolshevik Super-Poem in Five Cantos

124

Philip F. Rubio [reviewed by Peter Rachleff]

There’s Always Work at the Post Office: African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality 

129

T.R. Reid & Jason Corburn [reviewed by Celina Su]

The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care & Toward the Healthy City: People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning

136

Fred Moten & Douglas Kearney [reviewed by Maria Damon]

B Jenkins & The Black Automaton

144

C.L.R. James (ed. and with an introductionn by Noel Ignatiev)

A New Notion: Two Works by C.L.R. James

149

Ara Shirinyan [reviewed by Ellen Welcker]

Your Country is Great: Afghanistan—Guyana

154

Slavoj Zizek [reviewed by Mark Soderstrom]

First as Tragedy, Then as Farce

159