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Black, white, and in color : essays on American literature and culture / Hortense J. Spillers.

Title
Black, white, and in color : essays on American literature and culture / Hortense J. Spillers.
Author
Spillers, Hortense J.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.

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Description
xviii, 552 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • African Americans in literature
  • American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  • American literature > History and criticism
  • Human skin color in literature
  • Race in literature
  • Race relations in literature
  • Racism in literature
  • Whites in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 471-533) and index.
Contents
  • Introduction: Peter's Pans: Eating in the Diaspora -- 1. Ellison's "Usable Past": Toward a Theory of Myth -- 2. Formalism Comes to Harlem -- 3. A Hateful Passion, A Lost Love: Three Women's Fiction -- 4. Gwendolyn the Terrible: Propositions on Eleven Poems -- 5. "An Order of Constancy": Notes on Brooks and the Feminine -- 6. Interstices: A Small Drama of Words -- 7. Changing the Letter: The Yokes, the Jokes of Discourse, or, Mrs. Stowe, Mr. Reed -- 8. Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book -- 9. "The Permanent Obliquity of an In(pha)llibly Straight": In the Time of the Daughters and the Fathers -- 10. Moving on Down the Line: Variations on the African-American Sermon -- 11. Black, White, and in Color, or Learning How to Paint: Toward an Intramural Protocol of Reading -- 12. Notes on an Alternative Model - Neither/Nor -- 13. Who Cuts the Border? Some Readings on America -- 14. Faulkner Adds Up: Reading Absalom, Absalom! and The Sound and the Fury --
  • 15. "All the Things You Could Be by Now, If Sigmund Freud's Wife was Your Mother": Psychoanalysis and Race -- 16. The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Post-Date.
ISBN
  • 0226769798 (cloth)
  • 0226769801 (pbk.)
LCCN
2002014268
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries