January 30, 2007

UC Press is proud to announce that Representations 92: Redress, a special issue on the theme of political redress, has shared the prize for the Best Special Issue 2006 from The Council of Editors of Learned Journals.  From the original press release upon the issue's publication,  "The wide range of critical perspectives on redress available in Representations 92 is typical of the breadth of scholarship for which the journal is known. Edited by Stephen Best and Saidiya Hartman, the issue makes a significant contribution to the ongoing debate on this controversial topic and promises to be a touchstone for future dialogue."

Representations 92 features the following articles:

STEPHEN BEST & SAIDIYA HARTMAN Fugitive Justice
HERMAN L. BENNETT ‘‘Sons of Adam’’: Text, Context, and the Early Modern African Subject
COLIN DAYAN Legal Terrors
ROBERT WESTLEY The Accursed Share: Genealogy, Temporality, and the Problem of Value in Black Reparations Discourse
BRYAN WAGNER Disarmed and Dangerous: The Strange Career of Bras-Coupe´
DAVID LLOYD The Indigent Sublime: Specters of Irish Hunger

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