Volume 43, Number 2, Summer 2022
Contents
From the Editor
Dark Academe
Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Focus: Autofiction and Autotheory
Introduction: Autofiction, Autotheory, and Regimes of Visibility
Laura Cernat
Autofiction across Borders: Anglo-Metamorphoses of a French Concept
Karen Ferreira-Meyers
“Certain people were born with the internet inside them and suffered greatly from it”: Autofiction at the Intersection of Self, Sociality, and Mediation
Anna Poletti
Refugee Writing and the Right to Autofiction
Tom Toremans
Reading Autofiction: The Cognitive Turn
Alison Gibbons
Against Autofiction: The French Resistance to Autofiction from Gérard Genette to Julia Kristeva
Anneleen Masschelein
Ben Lerner’s Autofictional Politics of Form
Ioannis Tsitsovits
“That Listening Mien”: Queer and Psychoanalytic Intersubjectivity in Sedgwick’s Autotheory
Yael Segalovitz
Queer Intelligibility and Autotheory
Rachel Lallouz
“Wake Work”: Thinking as Care in the Black Autotheoretical Writings of Christina Sharpe
Lauren Gabrielle Fournier
Autofiction, Autotheory, and the Neoliberal Contemporary
Marc Farrant
Essay
A Modest Proposal on Faculty Governance
Paul Allen Miller
Theory
Saul Friedländer, Proustian Uncertanties: On Reading and Rereading In Search of Lost Time
Daniel T. O’Hara
Mark Fisher, ed. Darren Ambrose, k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004–2016)
Devin Thomas O’Shea
Kenneth Goldsmith, Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb
Andrew S. Taylor
Interventions
An Interview with Reyna Grande
Frederick Luis Aldama
Fiction
J. Bradley, On the Campaign Trail; Robert Kelly, illus. Emma Polyakov, Ten New Fairy Tales; and Laura Krughoff, Wake in the Night
Jane Rosenberg LaForge
Ha Seong-nan, trans. Janet Hong, Flowers of Mold
Rebecca Cuthbert
Loie Rawding, Tight Little Vocal Cords
Erin H. Davis
Marcia Butler, Oslo, Maine: A Novel
Edward M. Bury
Clifford Garstang, House of the Ancients and Other Stories
Voyo Gabrilo
Jane Rosenberg LaForge, Sisterhood of the Infamous
Diane Goodman
Rebecca Fishow, The Trouble with Language
Erin H. Davis
Camilla Grudova, The Doll’s Alphabet
Kolby Harvey
Chase Griffin, What’s on the Menu?
Daniel Gonzalez
E-Feature
The Volunteer Negro
E. Ethelbert Miller
Memoir
Debra Di Blasi, Selling the Farm: Descants from a Recollected Past
Erin H. Davis
Kat Meads, Dear DeeDee
Loie Rawding
Poetry
Steven Sher, Contestable Truths, Incontestable Lies
Richard Jeffrey Newman
Janet Hamill, A Map of the Heavens: Selected Poems, 1975–2017
Jane Rosenberg LaForge
Robert Kramer, trans. Roberto Mendoza Ayala, In the Margins/Al margen
Marta López-Luaces
Susana H. Case, Dead Shark on the N Train
Margot Farrington
Thaddeus Rutkowski, Tricks of Light: New and Selected Poems
Amy Holman
Stephen Cramer, ed., Turn It Up! Music in Poetry from Jazz to Hip-Hop
Eric Plaks
Chris Tysh, Derrida’s In/Voice
Evan Reynolds
Phill Provance, A Plan in Case of Morning
Josh Williams
Laurel Blossom, Un-
Fred Muratori
Greg Masters et al., Collaborations
Sparrow
Children’s
David Unger, illus. Carlos Vélez Aguilera, Sleeping with the Light On
Ludy Rueda
Printers and Poets
An Interview with David Wilk
Charles Alexander
Scenes
An Interview with Ken Edwards and Brian Marley of Grand Iota
Poetics to Come
Why Poetics, Then?
Daniel T. O’Hara
The Departed
The All-Too-Human Departure of Jean-Luc Nancy
Irving Goh