SEPTEMBER 2011 (38.3) TABLE OF CONTENTS

SPECIAL ISSUE The Human, the Not Human and Cultural Contact Guest Editors: Eugene Eoyang and Irene Sywenky The Arrogance of the Species: Humanity, Humanitas, and the Chinese Notion of Ren (仁) Eugene Eoyang 337 The Non-Human in New World Encounter Narratives of the English Renaissance Frederick Waage 344 Deauthorizing Anthropologies and “Authenticating” Landscapes in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Diamela Eltit’s El cuarto mundo Nicole L. Sparling 356 Non-Human Animals and Liminal Cultural Space in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi and Victor Pelevin’s The Life of Insects Irene Sywenky 381 REVIEW ARTICLES He Do Derrida in Different Voices Eamonn Dunne 396 Biedermeier Postmodernism? Christian Moraru 404 BOOK REVIEWS Mooneeram, Roshni From Creole to Standard: Shakespeare, Language, and Literature in a Postcolonial Context George Lang 414 Hilger, Stephanie M. Women Writing Back: Strategies of Response and the Dynamics of European Literary Culture, 1790-1805 Melanie Adley 417 Spitta, Silvia Misplaced Objects: Migrating Collections and Recollections in Europe and the Americas M. Elizabeth Boone 419 Yu, Timothy Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Writing Since 1965 Juliana Chang 422 Ty, Eleanor Rose Unfastened: Globality and Asian North American Narratives Jessica Tsui Yan Li 424 Chapman, Rosemary Between Languages and Cultures: Colonial and Postcolonial Readings of Gabrielle Roy Sophie Marcotte 427 Blum, Cinzia Sartini Rewriting the Journey in Contemporary Italian Literature: Figures of Subjectivity in Progress Rebecca West 429