ariel 34:1, 2003
 
Wang Fengzhen and Shaobo Xie
Introductory Notes

1

Arif Dirlik

Globalization, Indigenism, and the Politics of Place

15

J. Hillis Miller

The Indigene and the Cybersurfer

31

Rob Wilson

Reframing Global/Local Poetics in the Post-Imperial Pacifi c: Meditations on ‘Displacement,’ Indigeneity, and Area Studies

53

Bruce Robbins

Homework: Richard Powers, Walt Whitman, and the Poetry of the Commodity

77

Wang Liya

Transformation and Crisis in the Chinese Cultural Space

93

Chen Yongguo

Globalization: Resistance From the Chinese New Left

111

Poems
 
 
Julia Schroeder
Firecrackers Fireworks
14
Mark Fullerton
A half-life we have had. . .
30
Paul Karan
Review Clip
76
Perspective
 
 
Pamela McCallum
Postcolonial Performances
127
Book Reviews
 
 
Gillian Hart
Disabling Globalization: Places of Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa. (Helene Strauss)
133
Christopher Hitchens
Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere. (Harry Vandervlist)
135
Graham Huggan

The Postcolonial Exotic: Marketing the Margins. (Cynthia Sugars)

138

Amritjit Singh and Peter Schmidt, eds.

Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity and Literature. (Ashraf H. A. Rushdy)

142

C.J. W.-L. Wee
Culture, Empire, and the Question of Being Modern. (Lewis MacLeod)
145
Notes on Contributors
 
149