Many insect borers, pruners, and girdlers attack, damage, and kill pecan and hickory trees. By using the idormation contained in this publication, resource managers, landowners, and other interested people should be better able to identify and manage these pests. Yellow-bellied sapsuckers are also discussed because damage caused by these birds is ofken confused with that of insect borers. Class, order, and family names of these pests are listed in the Appendix as additional idormation for the reader. CONTENTS

A guide to major insects, diseases, air pollution injury and chemical injury. Gen. Tech. Rep. SO-96. New Orleans, LA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest 'Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station. 45 p. This booklet will help nurserymen, resource managers, pest control personnel, and homeowners to prevent, identify, and control ash pests.

A recent collection of essays on transnational literary studies asserts: "the interrogation of national narratives characteristic of transnational studies entails the putting forth of a different set of coordinates whereby to understand global configurations" (Frassinelli et al. 2011: 6). Taking our cue from this statement, the "coordinates" that we would like to advance here amount to a single word: indeterminacy. To convey what is meant by this word, it might be helpful at the outset to distinguish it from what has been described as "the massive economic and political diaspora of the modern world" (Bhabha 1994: 8); although migration is intrinsically related to the indeterminacy of people(s) and language(s), it is not an exhaustive condition -particularly with regard to language. It is also crucially important to remember that the modern forms of diaspora occur within the context of the dominant form of social homogenization: the nation-state. Our understanding of the nation-state follows the description provided by Bruno Latour when he speaks about the work of the modern, which creates new forms of separation (for our purposes, nation-states) and then conceals those fictive productions behind naturalizing narratives (cf. Latour 1993). The themes of 'hybridity' and 'diaspora' are as much a part of those naturalizing narratives as those of origin and purity. Although transnationalism does indeed ask us to look beyond the separations instituted by the ideology of nationalism, the narratives of 'massive diaspora' and 'overlapping histories' that are used to justify such moves may, in fact, serve to naturalize those separations -not just in the past but, perhaps most importantly, also through the terms of cultural comparison.Hence, by remembering the indeterminacy of people(s) and language(s), we are called upon to develop not just a non-national understanding of the present conjuncture but also a non-national, non-normative, and, finally, non-anthropological understanding of the past as well as the present and future. What we intend here is a critique not just of national narratives but also of the fundamental assumptions about human collectivity (species-being) and knowledge that have sustained the normativity of the nationalist project in all its forms. It is a critique that must be pursued on several levels at once: with regard to philosophical ontology, it is a critique of hylomorphism; epistemologically, it is a

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