Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and CultureUniversity of Chicago Press, 2003 M05 28 - 552 páginas Black, White, and in Color offers a long-awaited collection of major essays by Hortense Spillers, one of the most influential and inspiring black critics of the past twenty years. Spanning her work from the early 1980s, in which she pioneered a broadly poststructuralist approach to African American literature, and extending through her turn to cultural studies in the 1990s, these essays display her passionate commitment to reading as a fundamentally political act-one pivotal to rewriting the humanist project. Spillers is best known for her race-centered revision of psychoanalytic theory and for her subtle account of the relationships between race and gender. She has also given literary criticism some of its most powerful readings of individual authors, represented here in seminal essays on Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, and William Faulkner. Ultimately, the essays collected in Black, White, and in Color all share Spillers's signature style: heady, eclectic, and astonishingly productive of new ideas. Anyone interested in African American culture and literature will want to read them. |
Contenido
Eating in the Diaspora | 1 |
Toward a Theory of Myth | 65 |
2 Formalism Comes to Harlem | 81 |
Three Womens Fiction | 93 |
Propositions on Eleven Poems | 119 |
Notes on Brooks and the Feminine | 131 |
A Small Drama of Words | 152 |
The Yokes the Jokes of Discourse or Mrs Stowe Mr Reed | 176 |
Variations on the AfricanAmerican Sermon | 251 |
Toward an Intramural Protocol of Reading | 277 |
12 Notes on an Alternative ModelNeitherNor | 301 |
13 Who Cuts the Border? Some Readings on America | 319 |
Reading Absalom Absalom and The Sound and the Fury | 336 |
Psychoanalysis and Race | 376 |
A PostDate | 428 |
Notes | 471 |
An American Grammar Book | 203 |
In the Time of the Daughters and the Fathers | 230 |
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Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture Hortense J. Spillers Vista previa limitada - 2003 |
Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture Hortense J. Spillers Vista previa limitada - 2003 |
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Ashes Taken for Fire: Aesthetic Modernism And the Critique of Identity Kevin Bell Vista previa limitada - 2007 |
Unmaking Race, Remaking Soul: Transformative Aesthetics and the Practice of ... Vista previa limitada - 2007 |