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An interdisciplinary journal of transnational cultural studies

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Volume 4, Number 2

Issue 8, Spring 1992

Debates and Controversies

The Banality of Power and the Aesthetics of Vulgarity in the Postcolony
Take Care of Public Telephones: Moral Education and Nation-State Formation in Papua New Guinea
Robert J. Foster
The Death of History? Historical Consciousness and the Culture of Late Capitalism
Dipesh Chakrabarty
The Public Fetus and the Family Car: From Abortion Politics to a Volvo Advertisement
Janelle S. Taylor
Race and the Humanities: The “Ends” of Modernity?
Homi Bhabha

Engulfment

“Disappearing” Iraqis
David Prochaska
Algeria Caricatures the Gulf War
Susan Slyomovics
Mobilizing Fictions: The Gulf War, the Media and the Recruitment of the Spectator
Robert Stam
Time and the Television War
Victor J. Caldarola

Observations and Comment

Unter Den Linden, Madison and Mine; Meditation on a Fragment of the Berlin Wall
John F. Sherry
Comment on “Voices of the Rainforest”
Ben Gerson
Striking Out Gender: Getting to First Base with Bill Brown
Bill Maurer
A Response to Bill Maurer
Bill Brown

Miscellany

Miscellany

Cover

Volume 4, Number 2 Cover

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Public Culture is a reviewed interdisciplinary journal of cultural studies, published three times a year in Fall, Winter, and Spring for the Institute for Public Knowledge by Duke University Press. The journal's full archives are available online at Dukejournals.org.

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