Barbara Eckstein

Selected Publications

Books in Press, in Progress, or in Print

Sustaining New Orleans: Post-war Literature and the Fate of an American City. Routledge, October 2005.

Storytelling and Sustainability: Planning for Great American Cities. Co-edited with James Throgmorton. MIT Press, spring 2003.

The Language of Fiction in a World of Pain: Reading Politics as Paradox. Cultural Studies Series, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.

Selected Articles in Process or in Print

"Spectres of the City," Journal of Urban History (forthcoming 2006).

"Making Space: Analyzing Urban Narratives" in "Storytelling and Sustainability" (forthcoming MIT, 2003)

"Planning Blues, " Introduction to "Story and Sustainability, " with James Throgmorton (forthcoming MIT, 2003)

"Indiscourageable Progress: The Decline of the New Orleans Streetcar and the Rise of A Streetcar Named Desire," (accepted by John Lowe, Louisiana State University, for "Pelican Eyes: Louisiana Culture and the Nation," a collection of essays, at Univ. Press of Mississippi)

Review of McKay Jenkins's The South in Black and White. Forthcoming in American Literature.Winter 2001.

"Desire Lines: The Chicago Transportation Plan and the 1950s Movement of Japanese Americans and American Indians into Chicago." With James Throgmorton. Published on-line with selected proceedings of the 3Cities Conference. Birmingham, England. 2000.

"Unsquaring the Squared Route in What Maisie Knew." Reprinted from The Henry James Review in Henry James: Turn of the Screw and What Maisie Knew. Macmillan New Casebooks. Eds. Neil Cornwell and Maggie Malone. London: Macmillan and New York: St. Martin's, 1998.

"A Conversation about Kwame Anthony Appiah's In My Father's House." With Mahoumbah Klobah, Mawuena Logan, Dean Makaluni, Cherry Muhanji, and Theresa Riffe. Iowa Review 26. Fall 1996. 1-26.

"Iconicity, Immersion and Otherness: The Hegelian 'Dive' of J. M. Coetzee and Adrienne Rich. Mosaic 29. March 1996. 57-79.

"Ethnicity Matters." [review essay] American Literary History 7. Fall 1995. 572-81.

"Strategy for Seeing White: Patricia Williams's Polar Bears." North Dakota Quarterly 62. Summer 1994-95. 108-19.

"Nadine Gordimer: Nobel Laureate in Literature, 1991," World Literature Today. Winter 1992. 13pp. [trans. into Chinese by Yongxiong Mai for Oriental Culture Studies, Guangxi, P.R. China. 1994. 293-302.]

"The Body, the Word and the State: J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians." Novel. Winter 1989. 175-98.

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