Table of Contents

Introduction Howard Marchitello 1. The Uses and Abuses of Memory Tzvetan Todorov 2. History and the Duty to Memory in Postwar France: The Pitfalls of an Ethics of Remembrance Richard J. Golan 3. Witnessing Otherness in History Kelly Oliver 4. The Ethos of History Krzysztof Ziarek 5. Merleau-Ponty's Chiasm and the Ethical Call of Situated Criticism Lowell Gallagher 6. Heterology and Post-Historicist Ethics Howard Marchitello 7. Mexico's Gas, Mexico's Tears: Expositions of Identity David E. Johnson 8. Reports of the Death of Cultures Have Been Exaggerated Marshall Sahlins 9. A Moral Dilemma Gayatri Spivak

About the Author

Howard Marchitello is Associate Professor of English at Texas A & M University. He is the author of Narrative andMeaning in Early Modern England.