Occasional Papers Series

 

Published by the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook

 

VOLUME ONE

Afterwords: Essays in Memory of Jean-François Lyotard

Edited and with an afterword by Robert Harvey

Preface by E. Ann Kaplan

© 2000

ISBN 0-9700532-0-7

 

Essays by Geoffrey Bennington, François Noudelmann, Anne Tomiche and Serge Trottein.

 

Contents:

Geoffrey Bennington, “Before”

Anne Tomiche, “Phrasing the Disruptiveness of the Visible in Freudian Terms: Lyotard and the Visual”

François Noudelmann, “Post(modern) Intellectual”

Serge Trottein, “The Beauty of the Postmodern Sublime”

Robert Harvey, “Afterword: Afterward”

 

These essays are in honor of the French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard, inventor of the concept of “postmodernism.”

 

VOLUME TWO
Joyous Wakes, Dignified Deaths: Issues in Death and Dying

Edited and with a preface by Robert Harvey

© 2001

ISBN 0-9700532-1-5

 

Essays by Jack Coulehan, E. Ann Kaplan, Joseph Roach and Kathleen Wilson.

 

Contents:
Robert Harvey, “Death on the Installment Plan”

Joseph Roach, “Cutting Loose: Burying ‘The First Man of Jazz’”

Kathleen Wilson, “Circum-Atlantic Performance as History”

Jack Coulehan, “Death with Dignity: Images, Stories and Reflections”

E. Ann Kaplan, “Reflections on the ‘Art’ of Dying”

 

Joseph Roach discusses the New Orleans funeral of jazz cornetist Buddy Bolden. Kathleen Wilson responds to Roach’s essay by discussing the jazz funeral as a performance in which questions of origina and authenticity loom large but are unanswerable. Jack Coulehan exposes some of the inherent conflicts between the end-of-life desires of terminal patients and the reality of the American medical system. E. Ann Kaplan responds to Coulehan’s essay by expanding upon three issues: death denial, death preparation as morbid and the meaninglessness of death.

 

VOLUME THREE

Boundaries of Affect: Ethnicity and Emotion

Edited and with an introduction by E. Ann Kaplan and Susan Scheckel

© 2007

ISBN 978-0-9700532-2-0

 

Essays by Sara Ahmed and David H. Kim.

 

Contents:

Sara Ahmed, “The Politics of Bad Feeling”

David H. Kim, “Self-Contempt and Color-Blind Liberalism in The Accidental Asian”

 

Sara Ahmed addresses the paradox of “bad feeling” and the politics of attaching this feeling to certain bodies and communities. David Kim’s essay is a case-study of the relationship between affect and assimilation in the writings of Eric Lui, a speechwriter for former President Bill Clinton.