Introduction / Silvestra Mariniello 1
1. Transgressing Representation: Women's Ways Against Institutional Knowledge
Responsibility / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 19
The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Post-Date / Hortense J. Spillers 67
The Uses and Abuses of French Discourse Theories for Feminist Politics / Nancy Fraser 123
Veiled Threats: Malek Alloula's Colonial Harem / Laura Rice 144
2. Undoing Discursive Constructions: Alternative Rhetorical Strategies
Maternal Discourse and the Romance of Self-Possession in Kate Chopin's The Awakening / Ivy Schweitzer 161
America, "Fat," the Fetus / Lauren Berlant 192
Queer Nationality / Lauren Berlant and Elizabeth Freeman 245
"The Most Suffering Class": Gender, Class, and Consciousness in Pre-Marxist France / Margaret Cohen 279
Brava! And Farewell to Greatheart / Judith Wilt 306
3. The Politics of Allegory: A New Understanding of Agency
Allegory and Dialectics: A Match Made in Romance / Doris Sommer 325
Blanchot's Au moment voulu: Woman as the Eternally Recurring Figure of Writing / Larysa Mykyta 349
Wuthering Heights: At the Threshold of Interpretation / Carol Jacobs 371
The Geography of Enunciation: Hysterical Pastiche in Kathy Acker's Fiction / Karen Brennan 396
Index 423

Comprised pf a number of previously published articles that appeared in boundary 2.

Silvestra Mariniello is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Montreal.

Paul A. Bové is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and Editor of boundary 2.