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SURFING THE LONG WAVES OF

GLOBAL CAPITAL WITH CHANG

RAE-LEE'S NATIVE SPEAKER:

ETHNIC BRANDING AND THE

HUMANIZATION OF CAPITAL

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Chang-rae Lee's 1995 novel, Native Speaker, offers an interest-

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Who Are We?: The Chal-lenges to America's Identity

Works CitedHomo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life

Imagined CommunitiesGerminal Life: The Difference and Repetition of

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Ethics after Idealism

———. The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism

as Space of Cultural ProductionPluralism

Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American-East Asian Relations at the End of the Century

Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy

A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

Society Must Be Defended

Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line

The End of the Nation-State

Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies

The Clash of Civilizations

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———. Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's Identity

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The Futures of American Studies

Grundrisse

Parables of the Virtual

Shattered Windows: Promises and Prospects for Asian American Studies

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Identities: Beyond the Hyphen -

A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present

———. Cities without Citizens

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between the work of Cisneros and of the Cuban American writer Ruth Behar. She is also author of the poetry collection Speak to Me from Dreams (Third Woman Press).

LINDA S. KAUFFMAN has written numerous essays on contemporary Bad Girls and Sick Boys:

Fantasies in Contemporary Art and Culture (1998); Discourses of Desire: Gender, Genre, and Epistolary Fictions (1986); and Special Delivery: Epistolary Modes in Modern Fiction (1992). She is editor of three volumes, including American Feminist Thought at Century's End (1993). She teaches in the English Department at the University of Maryland, College Park.

RANDALL KNOPER teaches as the University of Massachusetts Am-herst. He is the author of Acting Naturally: Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance (1995). He is now working on a book project about American literature of the late nineteenth century and sciences of the brain and nervous system.

J. PAUL NARKUNAS is an Assistant Professor of Literary Theory in the Department of English at John Jay College, City University of New York. He has published articles in Theory and Event and Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory as well as in several collections. He is presently completing two manuscripts: Flotsam and Jetsam in Global Capital Flows: Global English and the Future of Literature and The Ahuman: Thinking Beyond the Global Human.

JESSICA PRESSMAN researches the intersection of electronic litera-ture and literary modernism. Her essays have appeared in Studies in American Fiction, Dichtung-Digital, and The Iowa Review Web; an essay on Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries is forthcoming in Rim Modernisms (University of Toronto Press). This fall she joins the faculty at Yale University as an Assistant Professor of English.

BERTHOLD SCHOENE <b.schoene@mmu.ac.uk> is Director of the English Research Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of Writing Men (2000), co-editor of Posting the Male (2003), and has recently edited The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature (2007). His current work in prog-ress includes an essay on gay men and romance and a study on the cosmopolitan novel.

ALEX SEGAL <asegal@csu.edu.au> lectures in English at Charles Sturt University. His articles, mostly on literary theory and on litera-ture and philosophy, have appeared in Critique, Philosophical Investi-gations, The Critical Review, Auto/Biography, and Meridian. The topic of literature and secrecy is a particular focus of his research.

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