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I wanted black skates: gender, cash, pleasure, and the politics of criticism.
September 22, 2008... One of my favorite models for critical writing is the 1994 book Her Tongue on My Theory: Images, Essays, Fantasies by members of the dyke art collective Kiss and Tell. In the book, they set out to address a situation they encountered as writers that many people also encounter as readers: the...

"Our hero": Toussaint Louverture in British representations.
September 22, 2008... For most students and scholars outside of Haiti, finding out about the Haitian Revolution remains to this day an epiphany of sorts. To be sure, however much one learns of other countries' histories depends on personal interest and access to documents and information, but comparing the...

Cabaret and antifascist aesthetics.
September 22, 2008... When Bob Fosse's Cabaret debuted in 1972, critics and casual viewers alike noted that it was far from a conventional film musical. "After 'Cabaret,' " wrote Pauline Kael in the New Yorker, "it should be a while before performers once again climb hills singing or a chorus breaks into song on a...

Ecstatic Donne: conscience, sin, and surprise in the sermons and the Mitcham letters.
September 22, 2008... Be you and I behind an arras then. Mark the encounter. --Polonius, Hamlet When John Donne describes the effects of a well-delivered sermon in a 1620 address at Lincoln's Inn, he exploits the way in which conscience is generally thought, in Reformation theology, to be an agency rather...

Timing is everything?
September 22, 2008... Periodization and Sovereignty: How Ideas of Feudalism and Secularization Govern the Politics of Time by Kathleen Davis. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. Pp. 208. $42.50 cloth. To be blunt: everyone should read this book. There are at least two reasons I think so. The...