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wai chee dimock is the William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. She is the author, most recently, of Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time (Princeton University Press, 2006) and coeditor, with Lawrence Buell, of Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature (Princeton University Press, 2007).

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Situation of Legal Scholarship -- I Approaches to the Cultural Study of Law -- Law as Culture -- What It Is and What It Isn't: Cultural Studies Meets Graduate Student Labor -- Telling a Less Suspicious Story: Notes toward a Nonskeptical Approach to Legal/Cultural Analysis -- Freedom, Autonomy, and the Cultural Study of Law -- II Deploying Law and Legal Ideas in Culture and Society -- Ethnography and Democracy: Texts and Contexts in the United States in the 1990s -- Rules of Law, Laws of Science -- Law, Therapy, Culture -- III Reading Legal Events -- A Ghost in the House of Justice: Death and the Language of the Law -- Lacan and Voting Rights -- ''Into the Blue'': The Image Written on Law -- Contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Materializing Democracy and Other Political Fantasies -- Tocqueville's Democratic Thing; or, Aristocracy in America -- Legal Slaves and Civil Bodies -- Mexicans in a Material World: From John Wayne's The Alamo to Stand-Up Democracy on the Border -- Souls That Matter: Social Death and the Pedagogy of Democratic Citizenship -- Uncle Sam Needs a Wife: Citizenship and Denegation -- The New Homonormativity: The Sexual Politics of Neoliberalism -- The Genealogy of a Democratic Crush -- Representative/Democracy: The Political Work of Countersymbolic Representation -- Rethinking Space, Rethinking Rights: Literature, Law, and Science -- A Long Foreground: Re-Materializing the History of Native American Relations to Mass Culture -- From Center to Margin: Internationalism and the Origins of Black Feminism -- Democratic Passions: Reconstructing Individual Agency -- Anti-Ideology: Education and Politics as Democratic Practices -- Moralism as Antipolitics -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index