1. Dark Fields of the Republic: Seamus Deane's Sundered Provinces–Joe Cleary
2. An Editorial Note–Lindsay Waters
3. American Canon–Tony Tanner
4. States of Fantasy: Barack Obama versus the Tea Party Movement–Donald E. Pease
5. "All I Do Is Think about You": Some Notes on Pragmatist Longing in Recent Literary Study of Amiri Baraka–Jeremy Matthew Glick
6. After the Beep: Answering Machines and Creaturely Life–Dominic Pettman
7. Phonocentrism and Literary Modernity in Turkey–Nergis Ertürk
8. Disrupting Hegemonic Liberalism in East Asia–Chua Beng Huat
9. On the Pacific Edge of Catastrophe, or Redemption: California Dreaming in Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice–Rob Wilson