Social Text 38

Beyond the Nation in Eastern Europe
Katherine Verdery

“Victorian with the Rebel Seed”: C. L. R. James,
Postcolonial Intellectual
Grant Farred

An Interview with Seamus Deane
Dympna Callaghan

The Crisis of Secular Politics and the Rise of
Political Islam in Iran
Ali Mirsepassi-Ashtiani

Review of Kanan Makiya’s Cruelty and Silence
Ahmad Dallal

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Dossier Puerto Rico

Introduction
Juan Flores and María Milagros López

Intellectuals Confront the Crisis of Traditional
Narratives in Puerto Rico
Carlos Gil

The Caribbean: Archeology and Poetics
Miriam Muñiz Varela

Post-Work Selves and Entitlement “Attitudes” in
Peripheral Postindustrial Puerto Rico
María Milagros López

Watermelon Intelligentsia: Intellectuals in the
Party-State
Arturo Torrecilla

The Unruly City and the Mental Landscape of
Colonized Identities: Internally Contested
Nationality in Puerto Rico, 1945-1985
Kelvin A. Santiago-Valles