LEFT CURVE no. 19

Focusing on: Cultural Identity and Globalization:
Mean World Syndrome (graphic) by Mariona Barkus; THE NON-SOVEREIGN SELF
(DIASPORA IDENTITIES) by Gordon Bennett; LOCATING A HOME ON THE
BORDER: Third World Israelis, Minor Literature and the Racial Formations of Zionism by
Smadar Lavie; THE STRUGGLE OF THE KURDS (Photographs by Ed Kashi,
Chronology by Maya Brisely, Poetry by Hasan Dewran); THE HEURISTIC POWER OF
ART by Elizam Escobar; Selfportrait with Cows Going Home (photo essay on Hungary) by Sylvia
Plachy; INTERVIEW WITH DUSAN MAKAVEJEV by Kurt Jacobsen; Virtual Ethnicity?
(graphic) & Pasolini's Ashes (poem) by Christos Tsiolkas; The Shupsl Arcane by Jack
Hirschman; "Stories My Grandmother Used to Tell," (Photomontage) by Mondo Jud
Hart; The Whistle (poem on Emmett Louis Till) by Peggy Collins; CULTURE WAR by
James Scully; Exhibit X (poem) by T. F. Tietchen; Hands (poem) by Nicole Diamond;
BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE AN INCH? How to Survive in the World's Most
Crowded Place by Peter Engel; THE INTERSECTION OF DERRIDA, WILLIAMS AND
EAGLETON IN THE TEXT OF MARTIN EDEN by Nora Ruth Roberts; REVIEWS:
Jimmie Durham, A Certain Lack of Coherence: Writings on Art and Cultural Politics by
Alistair Welchman; "War Poetry and the Art of Forgiveness," Kevin Bowen: Playing
Basketball with the Viet Cong by John Mulligan; "Ideologies of Individualism: A Review,"
The New Individualists by Peter Laska; Two Poems by Vincent Ferrini. 136pp.