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PMC: Essays Currently Available for Peer Review

Self-nominated peer-reviewers regularly participate in the
editorial process of _Postmodern Culture_.  All submissions
distributed for review have been screened by the editors and will
receive two other readings from members of the journal's
permanent editorial board; _Postmodern Culture_ preserves the
anonymity of both authors and reviewers in this process, but the
comments of reviewers will be forwarded to the author.

If you would like to review one of the submissions described 
below, and if you think you can complete that review within two 
weeks of receiving the essay, please send a note to the editors at 
pmc at jefferson.village.virginia.edu outlining your qualifications 
as a reviewer of the work in question (experience in the subject
area, publications, interest), identifying the MS by number as 
listed below, and specifying the manner in which you would like
to receive the essay (electronic mail or World-Wide Web).
We will select one self-nominated reviewer for each of the works
listed below, and we will notify reviewers within two weeks.  

Information gathered during this process about potential reviewers
will be kept on file at PMC for future reference, and may be made
available for online searching by PMC subscribers seeking
expertise in a particular field.  Please note: members of the
journal's permanent editorial board should not nominate themselves
in response to this call.

Manuscripts for review:

MS#1:	An examination of a Salman Rushdie's short book on the film version of
 	_The Wizard of Oz_, published in 1992 as part of the British Film
	Institute's Film Classics series.  Rushdie's concluding note about the
	film offers an intriguing re-interpretation of the famous line, 
	"there's no place like home," and the author takes this point as an 
	opening	to an intersection of pschoanalysis, marxism, and postcolonial 
	studies.  References include Freud and Langley.

MS#2:	A look at Lenny Bruce's 1962 obscenity trial, and at Bruce's role as
	a Jewish entertainer and lightning rod mediating San Francisco's civic 
	structure, countercultures, and entertainment substratum.  The author
	also looks at issues of censorship, which are equally relevant in the 
	modern's struggle over cultural expression.  References include Gates, 
	Fischer, and Crenshaw.

MS #3: 	This essay examines the intense yet distant humanity in Sylvia Plath's
	poems, using Emmanual Levinas's metaethical emphasis on the _affect_ of
	the other to consider the "pathos of aethetics."  The author proposes
	that Plath's poetry provokes feeling and empathy, but not compassion
	or sympathy.  References include Young, Rose, and Ramazani.

MS #4:	An examination of the relationship of truth and media, and the 
	importance of an exterior-centered language: lies are easily pointed 
	out but truth is identified by its absence rather than by its presence.
	This identification, moreover, is done by the power that controls
	discourse.  But, the author feels, the power that tries to control 
	this discourse between truth and lie, life and death, transforms a 
	democracy into dictatorship.  References include Couillard, Rorty, 
	and Vattimo.

MS #5: 	An examination of the "logic in the secret" of Deleuze-Guattari's 
	theory of literary forms, particularly in _A Thousand Plateaux_ where 
	the concept of the secret is placed in the classification of the tale
	and the novella.  This is illustrated in analyses of Maupassant and
	Duras.  References include Levinas, Hegel, and Foucault.

MS #6: 	An essay looking at %Geschlecht% in Derrida's readings of Heidegger,
	in "%Geschlecht% II: Heidegger's Hand" and in his other discussions of
	Heidegger.  The author looks at the import of the "frighteningly
	polysemic and practically untranslatable word" in these works and in
	the works in the "yet-to-come."  References include Krell, McNeill, 
	and Ulmer. 

MS #7:  A look at interactive multilinear narrative and the possiblities for
	authorial collaboration in internet texts and internet textuality.  It 
	considers the problems of maintaining both coherence and the identity
	of a text as text on the interactive internet.  References include
	Lyotard, Simon, and Keep.

MS #8:	A look at a 1966 Derrida comment on Einstein ("The Einsteinian constant
	is not a constant, not a center...") and its role in the recent 
	"Science Wars."  The author argues that this recent prominence 
	reveals a deeper cluster of problems in the relationship between
	postmodernism and science, and seeks to examine the context of the 
	remark and find a path for a more constructive scientific response to 
	Derrida's work.

MS #9: 	This essay looks at Pynchon's _Gravity's Rainbow_, and tensions between
	high unities and low popular genres on the novel, and the resulting
	centralized and marginialized discourses.  References include Bahktin,
	Jameson, Stallybrass, and White.

MS #10:	A hypertext essay on social media and self-exchange.

MS #11:  A essay looking at the list, which straddles the coherent and the 
	incoherent and which groups together elements which may or may not
	predict the future but whose existence predicts the present.  Lists 
	also use the concept of exchange, which works across boundaries that 
	must both limit and separate.  The list	is a familiar rhetorical 
	device of postmodern writing.  The author follows this path to
	look at postmodernism in terms of the external and internal limits of 
	conceptualism amd to discuss the act of	and concept of exchange.  
	References include Vattimo, Marx, and Saussure, 

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