Dina Al-Kassim is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.

"Al-Kassim's analysis could profitably be applied to much modernist and avant-garde writing... It is already remarkably portable across decades and nations and movements... This wide portability and the refreshingly readable prose of the book make On Pain of Speech an ideal text for courses on post-colonialism, Modernism, and avant-garde literatures at the advanced undergraduate level and beyond." Inside Higher Ed

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Politics of Address 1. On Being Stubborn Oscar Wilde and the Modern Type 2. "The Bar Was Not Very Gay" New Kinship and the Serious Writer's Block 3. "A Long Tirade for a Direct Interjection" Talismano Rebukes the Oriental Tale in Jacques Lacan's Seminaires Notes Bibliography Index

Dina Al-Kassim is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.

"Al-Kassim's analysis could profitably be applied to much modernist and avant-garde writing... It is already remarkably portable across decades and nations and movements... This wide portability and the refreshingly readable prose of the book make On Pain of Speech an ideal text for courses on post-colonialism, Modernism, and avant-garde literatures at the advanced undergraduate level and beyond." Inside Higher Ed

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Politics of Address 1. On Being Stubborn Oscar Wilde and the Modern Type 2. "The Bar Was Not Very Gay" New Kinship and the Serious Writer's Block 3. "A Long Tirade for a Direct Interjection" Talismano Rebukes the Oriental Tale in Jacques Lacan's Seminaires Notes Bibliography Index