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edited by
Melissa Feuerstein,
Bill Johnson González,
Lili Porten, and
Keja Valens
The
Barbara
Johnson
Reader
The Surprise of Otherness
Barbara Johnson
edited by
melissa feuerstein
bill johnson gonzález
lili porten
keja valens
With an Introduction by
judith butler
and an Afterword by
shoshana felman
The Barbara Johnson reader : the surprise of otherness / edited by Melissa Feuerstein,
Bill Johnson Gonzalez, Lili Porten, and Keja Valens, with an introduction by Judith
Butler and an afterword by Shoshana Felman.
pages cm
“A John Hope Franklin Center Book.”
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 978-0-8223-5419-2 (pbk : alk. paper)
isbn 978-0-8223-5403-1 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Johnson, Barbara, 1947–2009. 2. Feminist literary criticism. I. Feuerstein,
Melissa. II. Johnson Gonzalez, Bill, 1970– iii. Porten, Lili. IV. Valens, Keja,
1972–
pn98.w64b37 2014
801.'95092—dc23
2013045003
Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Editors’ Preface xi
Bibliography 433
Index 437
vi | Contents
Acknowledgments
chapter 1 chapter 4
“The Critical Difference.” Diacritics “A Hound, a Bay Horse, and a Turtle
8, no. 2 (1978): 2–9. Reprinted with Dove: Obscurity in Walden.” From
permission of The Johns Hopkins A World of Difference, 49–56. ©
University Press. 1987 The Johns Hopkins University
Press. Reprinted with permission
chapter 2
of The Johns Hopkins University
From Jacques Derrida,
Press.
Dissemination. Barbara Johnson,
trans. (1981), vii–xvii. Excerpts chapter 5
from “Translator’s Introduction” “Strange Fits: Poe and Wordsworth
are reprinted by permission of on the Nature of Poetic Language.”
the publisher © The University of From A World of Difference,
Chicago 1981. 89–99. © 1987 The Johns Hopkins
University Press. Reprinted with
permission of The Johns Hopkins chapter 10
University Press. “Lesbian Spectacles: Reading Sula,
Passing, Thelma and Louise, and The
chapter 6
Accused.” From Media Spectacles,
“The Frame of Reference: Poe,
Marjorie Garber, Jann Matlock,
Lacan, Derrida.” Yale French Studies
and Rebecca Walkowitz, eds. (New
55/56 (1978): 457–505. Reprinted by
York: Routledge, 1993). Reproduced
permission of Yale French Studies.
with permission of Taylor & Francis
chapter 7 Group llc. Permissions conveyed
“Euphemism, Understatement, and through Copyright Clearance
the Passive Voice: A Genealogy Center.
of Afro-American Poetry.” From
chapter 11
Reading Black, Reading Feminist,
“Bringing Out D. A. Miller.”
Henry Louis Gates Jr., ed. © 1990
Narrative 10, no. 1 (January 2002):
by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Used
3–8. © 2002 The Ohio State
by permission of Dutton Signet,
University Press. Reproduced with
a division of Penguin Group
permission.
(USA) Inc.
chapter 12
chapter 8
“Correctional Facilities,” reprinted
“Metaphor, Metonymy, and Voice
by permission of the publisher from
in Their Eyes Were Watching God.”
Barbara Johnson, Mother Tongues:
From Black Literature and Literary
Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood,
Theory, Henry Louis Gates Jr.,
1–25 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
ed. (New York: Routledge, 1984).
University Press), © 2003 by the
Reproduced with permission of
President and Fellows of Harvard
Taylor & Francis Group llc.
College.
Permissions conveyed through
Copyright Clearance Center. chapter 13
“My Monster/My Self.” Diacritics
chapter 9
12, no. 2 (1982): 2–10. © 1982
“Moses and Intertexuality: Sigmund
The Johns Hopkins University
Freud, Zora Neale Hurston, and the
Press. Reprinted with permission
Bible.” From Poetics of the Americas:
of The Johns Hopkins University
Race, Founding, and Textuality,
Press.
Bainard Cowan and Jefferson
Humphries, eds. © 1997 Louisiana chapter 14
State University Press. Reprinted Introduction to Freedom and
by permission. Interpretation: Oxford Amnesty
viii | Acknowledgments
Lectures of 1992 (abridged). chapter 19
Copyright © 1993 Barbara Johnson. “Ego Sum Game,” reprinted by
Reprinted by permission of Basic permission of the publisher from
Books Press, a member of the Barbara Johnson, Persons and
Perseus Books Group. Things, 47–60 (Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press). © 2003
chapter 15
by the President and Fellows of
“Muteness Envy.” From Human, All
Harvard College.
Too Human, Diana Fuss, ed. (New
York: Routledge, 1995). Reproduced chapter 20
with permission of Taylor & Francis “Melville’s Fist: The Execution of
Group llc. Permissions conveyed Billy Budd.” Studies in Romanticism
through Copyright Clearance 18, no. 4 (1979): 567–99. Reprinted
Center. with permission.
chapter 16 chapter 21
“Apostrophe, Animation, and “Nothing Fails Like Success.” sce
Abortion.” Diacritics 16, no. 1 (1986): Reports 8 (fall 1980). Reprinted with
29–39. © 1986 The Johns Hopkins permission of the University of
University Press. Reprinted with Houston-Victoria.
permission of The Johns Hopkins
chapter 22
University Press.
“Bad Writing.” From Jonathan
chapter 17 Culler and Kevin Lamb, Just Being
“Anthropomorphism in Lyric Difficult? Academic Writing in the
and Law.” Reprinted by permission Public Arena. © 2003 by the Board
of the Yale Journal of Law & of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr.
the Humanities 10, no. 2 University. All rights reserved. Used
(1998): 549–74. with permission of Stanford
University Press, www.sup.org.
chapter 18
“Using People: Kant with chapter 23
Winnicott.” From The Turn to “Teaching Destructively.” From
Ethics, Marjorie Garber, Beatrice Writing and Reading Differently:
Hanssen, and Rebecca Walkowitz, Deconstruction and the Teaching
eds. (New York: Routledge, 2000). of Composition and Literature,
Reproduced with permission of G. Douglas Atkins and Michael
Taylor & Francis Group llc. L. Johnson, eds. (1985), 140–48.
Permissions conveyed through Reprinted with permission of the
Copyright Clearance Center. University Press of Kansas.
Acknowledgments | ix
chapter 24 publisher from Barbara Johnson,
“Poison or Remedy? Paul de Man as Mother Tongues: Sexuality,
Pharmakon.” Colloquium Trials, Motherhood, 40–64
Helveticum 11/12 (1990): 7–20. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press), © 2003 by
chapter 25
the President and Fellows
Reprinted from “Taking Fidelity
of Harvard College.
Philosophically,” from Difference in
Translation, Joseph F. Graham, ed. © chapter 27
1985 by Cornell University. Used by “Teaching Ignorance.” Yale
permission of the publisher, Cornell French Studies 63 (1982): 165–82.
University Press. Reprinted by permission of
Yale French Studies.
chapter 26
“The Task of the Translator,” afterword
reprinted by permission of the Copyright © 2014 Shoshana Felman.
x | Acknowledgments
Editors’ Preface
Melissa Feuerstein, Bill Johnson González,
Lili Porten, and Keja Valens
notes
1. Barbara Johnson, “Nothing Fails Like Success,” in A World of Difference
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987), 15–16.
2. Barbara Johnson, “Opening Remarks,” in The Critical Difference (Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987), xii.
3. Barbara Johnson, “Translator’s Introduction,” in Jacques Derrida, Dissemination,
trans. Barbara Johnson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981), xv.
Editors’ Preface | xv
4. Barbara Johnson, “Introduction,” in A World of Difference (Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1987), 4.
5. Johnson, “Nothing Fails like Success,” 13.
6. Johnson, “Opening Remarks,” x.
7. Johnson, “Introduction,” 2.
8. Johnson, “Introduction,” 4.
9. Johnson, “Opening Remarks,” 10.
10. Barbara Johnson, personal communication, August 31, 2002.
notes
1. Immanuel Kant, The Moral Law: Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysic of
Morals, trans. H. J. Paton (London: Hutchinson, 1948), 74–77.
2. Heinz Kohut, The Analysis of the Self (New York: International Universities
Press, 1983), xv.
Notes
“Barbara Johnson Biography,” from Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism,
edited by Vincent B. Leitch et al. Copyright © 2001 by W. W. Norton & Company,
Inc. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
This biographical account, which originally appeared as the headnote accom-
panying Johnson’s entry in the Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, was
written by Johnson in collaboration with the other editors of that anthology.