Generally historicizing / Evan Watkins -- History, narrative, and realism : Jameson's search for a method / Carolyn Lesjak -- A level playing field? / Roland Boer -- Narratives of history, narratives of time / Sean Homer -- Cultural revolution, the discourse of intellectuals, and other folk tales / Robert Seguin -- Construction work / Michael Rothberg -- Postmodernism, or the cultural logic of postcommunism? / Vitaly Chernetsky -- National allegory today / Ian Buchanan -- Who's afraid of national allegory? / Imre Szeman -- The American grounds of globalization / Caren Irr -- Periodizing Jameson, or, notes toward a cultural logic of globalization / Philip E. Wegner