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General introduction, John B. Foster Jr and Wayne J. Froman Part One:The Crisis of Modern Subjectivity Introduction 1. Interiority, IdentityKnowledge: Unravelling the Cartesian Cogito, Robert Strozier (Wayne StateUniversity, Detroit) 2. Subject, Self, Person: Marcel Mauss and the Limitesof Poststructural Critique, Anthony J. Harding (University of Saskatchewan)Part Two: Wester Culture in the Shadow of Fascism Introduction 3. AestheticFascism and Modern Tragedy: D'Annunzio's Fedra, Mary Ann Frese Witt (NorthCarolina State University) 4. Musical Headings: Toscanini's and Furtwangler'sFifth Symphonies, 1939-54, Herman Rapaport (University of Southampton) 5.Holocaust Testimony and Post-Holocaust Fiction: Cynthia Ozick's The Messiahof Stockholm, James Berger (Hofstra University) Part Three: Africa at thePassing of White Supremacy Introduction 6. Revisiting the Amistad Revolt inSierra Leone, Iyunolu Osagie (Pennsylvania State University) 7. An EthicalUniversal in the Postcolonial Novel? - "A Certain Simple Respect", MichielHeyns (University of Stellenbosch, SA and Cambridge University) 8. WesternClassics in the South African State of Emergency: Coetzee's Age of Iron andGordimer's My Son's Story, Lars Engle (University of Tulsa, Oklahoma) PartFour: Eastern Europe After Communism 9. Creator versus Conspirator in thePostcommunist Revolutions, Marcel Cornis-Pope (Virginia CommonwealthUniversity) 10. Yugoslavism and its Discontents: A Cultural Post-Mortem,Tomislav Z. Longinovi (University of Wisconsin, Madison) 11. Bosnia and theEthical Limits of Cultural Relativism: Re-auditing Lyotard, Caroline Bayard(McMaster University, Ontario) 12. Cultural Coordinates of a Bulgarian ArtHoax: "Drafts" by Virginia, A Tragedia dell'Arte, Nikita Nankov (IndianaUniversity, Bloomington) Part Five: Far East/Far West 13. CulturalHermeneutics and Orientalist Discourse: Loti's Self-Reflexive Japonisme, RolfGoebel (Kiel University, Germany) 14. Western Agon/Eastern Ritual:Confrontations and Co-optations in World Views, Eugene Eoyang (IndianaUniversity, Bloomington)