BRYN MAWR REVIEW OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Volume 2, Number 2 (Spring 2001)

REVIEWS:

Mourning, Trauma and Memory:

• Idelber Avelar, The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and

the Task of Mourning.
Reviewed by Laura García-Moreno, University of California, Irvine.
 
• James E. Young, At Memory's Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture.

Reviewed by Lisa Saltzman, Bryn Mawr College.
 
• Elizabeth Bronfen, The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and Its Discontents.

Reviewed by Elaine Perez Zickler, PhD, MSW.

Language, Translation--The Subject in Biography and Fiction:

• Carol Jacobs, In the Language of Walter Benjamin.

Reviewed by Carol Bernstein, Bryn Mawr College.
 
• Malcolm Bowie, Proust Among the Stars.

Reviewed by Mary Ann Caws, Graduate Center, CUNY.

Cultural Politics:

• Ken Hirschkop, Mikhail Bakhtin: An Aesthetic for Democracy.

Reviewed by Dmitri Nikulin, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research.
 
• Kamal Abdel-Malek and David Jacobson, eds., Israeli and Palestinian Identities in History and Literature.

Reviewed by Rena Potok, University of Pennsylvania.

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literature:

• Patrick Brantlinger, The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction.

Reviewed by Sarah Willburn, Bryn Mawr College.
 
• Jens Martin Gurr, Tristram Shandy and the Dialectic of Enlightenment.

Reviewed by Peter Briggs, Bryn Mawr College.

 Medieval Variations:

• Bernard Cerquiglini, In Praise of the Variant: A Critical History of Philology.

Reviewed by Melinda Menzer, Furman University.