Typeset by Carnegie Book Production, Lancaster Introduction: Tè glise, Continents à la dérive: Haiti between Shifting Continents, Past and Present 1 Part I. The Eco-Archive 1 For an Eco-Archive 29 2 Haitian Odysseys 69 Part II. Literary Witnesses 3 The Banality of Disaster 105 4 The Distant Literary Witness and the Ghosts of History in the "Other America" 139 Part III. The Anthropocene from Below 5 Fictions of Migration and Refuge from the Anthropocene 175 Epilogue: Land and Seas of Migration and Refuge, Past and Present 218 Bibliography 225 Index 245 I could not have written this book without the vital support of many people. After six wonderful years at the College of Charleston, I arrived at the University of Pittsburgh in fall 2013. At the time, I had the kernel of an idea for my next book, and over the next few years, my colleagues in the Department of French & Italian, my home at Pitt, helped me sustain and develop the project. I am grateful for
COMMENTARY. Edited by James L. Mays et al. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988. Pp. xviii + 1326 + 16 maps. $34.95.This new commentary is welcome. The contributors are first-rate: learned, careful, clear. The volume is comprehensive, including detailed and most helpful commentaries, not just on the protocanonical books but on the Apocrypha as well. Survey articles on biblical history, text and canon, methods of biblical interpretation, etc. introduce the volume. The commentary proper is divided under seven headings: Historical Books, Psalms and Wisdom, Prophets, Apocrypha, Gospels and Acts, the Pauline Letters, and the General Letters to the Churches. Before each of these sections an introductory article serves to orient the reader to the books in that division. (Among these, worthy of special mention are J. Collins' introduction to the Apocrypha and R. Jewett's introduction to the Pauline corpus.) Within, and set off from, the text of the commentary are sprinkled 32 short essays, each a kind of excursus on matters that arise in the text being commented. Examples of these include "Women in Genesis," "The Personification of Wisdom," "The Interaction between Prophet and God," "The 'Trials' of Jesus and the Responsibility for His Execution," "Were Chapters 10-13 [of 2 Corinthians] Originally a Separate Letter?" Frequent references to articles in the Harper's Bible Dictionary, intended as a companion volume to this one, offer a way for the reader to pursue more detailed study of particular matters.The plan of the volume is to allow the student to read individual passages within the context of the section, the section within the book, the book within the totality of its cognate books (e.g., Genesis-Esther), and each of the seven divisions within the context of Scripture as a whole. The clarity of outline of this commentary, then, serves its purpose very well indeed. As the general editor puts it, "Comment on these divisions does not proceed verse by verse, nor is it composed of a series of unrelated explanations of details in the text. Rather, it takes the form of integrated exposition that interprets the unit under discussion as a whole and so gives users a coherent commentary to accompany the reading of that book of the Bible" (xvii).Yet this plan has the defects of its qualities. The student who wishes to find explanations of particular words and phrases in a pericope is often frustrated. (Among a handful of exceptions to this rule, the commentary on Mark stands out as especially detailed and generously informative.) The focus on giving a sense of a passage as a whole not infrequently leads to bland paraphrase. E.g., consider the following from the commentary on Matthew 14: "When Jesus says, It is I. Have no
be appreciated? There are many fine papers among the 14 contributions assembled here, admirable both as reviews and as stimuli for further research. The laudable trusteeship of Maheshwari, who has fostered many students and many studies, is evident. Additionally, there are workers becoming worthy of recognition for consistently fine production. To mention selected names would only be invidious, for many chapters are excellent. The chapters dealing with so-called descriptive aspects are the best, and demonstrate that, instead of reaching a point of exhaustion, embryology is opening unexpectedly broad vistas for new research. Because recent studies show relationships with physiology, cytology, genetics, and plant breeding, the editor's hope that this book will reach a wider audience is reasonable. The editor has deliberately cultivated a spectrum of interests, and the reader is likely to find much of value in the taxonomic and genetic implications. One brief chapter, which deals with a problem in morphogenesis and offers predictions of what evidence will be needed and prophecies of what will be found, should have been omitted, however. New York, 1964. xx + 752 pp. Illus. $25.This book, which contains 18 "chapters" first presented as lectures in a statewide series sponsored by the University of California in the spring of 1964, answers a need that has been growing during the past few years for an organized, effective presentation of the physics of our space program. The editors and the 19 contributors are outstanding men in their fields and well qualified for their roles as authors; they have correlated their efforts and present an integrated coverage of the subject. The book is divided into four basic parts: Experimental Techniques for Space Physics, Solar and Planetary Physics, Fields be appreciated? There are many fine papers among the 14 contributions assembled here, admirable both as reviews and as stimuli for further research. The laudable trusteeship of Maheshwari, who has fostered many students and many studies, is evident. Additionally, there are workers becoming worthy of recognition for consistently fine production. To mention selected names would only be invidious, for many chapters are excellent. The chapters dealing with so-called descriptive aspects are the best, and demonstrate that, instead of reaching a point of exhaustion, embryology is opening unexpectedly broad vistas for new research. Because recent studies show relationships with physiology, cytology, genetics, and plant breeding, the editor's hope that this book will reach a wider audience is reasonable. The editor has deliberately cultivated a spectrum of interests, and the reader is likely to find much of value in the taxonomic and genetic implications. One brief chapter, which deals with a problem in morphogenesis and offers predictions of what evidence will be needed and prophecies of what will be found, should have been omitted, however.
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