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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spillers, Hortense J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--African American authors.

American literature--20th century--History and critcism.

African Americans in literature.

Human skin color in literature.

Race relations in literature.

White people in literature.

Racism in literature.

Race in literature.

Physical Description:

xviii, 552 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Contents:

Peter's pans : eating in the diaspora

Ellison's "usable past" : toward a theory of myth

Formalism comes to Harlem

Hateful passion, a lost love : three women's fiction

Gwendolyn the terrible : propositions on eleven poems

"Order of constancy" : notes on Brooks and the feminine

Interstices : a small drama of words

Changing the letter : the yokes, the jokes of discourse, or, Mrs. Stowe, Mr. Reed

Mama's baby, papa's maybe : an American grammar book

"Permanent obliquity of an in(pha)llibly straight" : in the time of the daughters and the fathers

Moving on down the line : variations on the African-American sermon

Black, white, and in color, or learning how to paint : toward an intramural protocol of reading

Notes on an alternative model

neither/nor

Who cuts the border? : some readings on America

Faulkner adds up : reading Absalom, Absalom! and The sound and the fury

"All the things you could be by now, if Sigmund Freud's wife was your mother" : psychoanalysis and race

Crisis of the Negro intellectual : a post-date.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-533) and index.

ISBN:

0226769798

0226769801

OCLC:

50604796