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"Not even past" : race, historical trauma, and subjectivity in Faulkner, Larsen, and Van Vechten / Dorothy Stringer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stringer, Dorothy, 1976-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Racism in literature.
- Subjectivity in literature.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962--Criticism and interpretation.
- Faulkner, William.
- Larsen, Nella--Criticism and interpretation.
- Larsen, Nella.
- Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964--Criticism and interpretation.
- Van Vechten, Carl.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (177 p. ) port. ;
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Anticipating contemporary trauma studies by decades, these disparate modernists' works parallel psychoanalytic thinkers of the same era and offer important resources for psychoanalytic approaches to racial difference today.
- Contents:
- "Little black man": repetition, the lesbian phallus, and the southern rape complex in Sanctuary
- "Which tooth hit you first?": nation, home, women, and violence in Requiem for a nun
- "Anyone with half an eye": blackness and the disaster of narcissism in Quicksand
- "A having way": fetishism and the black bourgeoisie in Passing
- "To glorify the negro": photographic shock and blackness in Carl Van Vechten's Portraiture.
- Notes:
- "American Literatures Initiative"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-4108-4
- 0-8232-4820-8
- OCLC:
- 741343683
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