Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus Margo Natalie Crawford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crawford, Margo Natalie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Difference (Psychology) in literature.

Human body in literature.

Miscegenation (Racist theory) in literature.

Race relations in literature.

Race in literature.

Race awareness in literature.

Human skin color--Social aspects--United States.

Human skin color.

Human skin color--United States--Psychological aspects.

Colorism--United States.

Colorism.

Politics and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Politics and literature.

Human skin color in literature.

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

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 200 p.) : ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2008.

Contents:

'She should have been a boy': shades of blackness in three lives and the blacker the berry

The fantasy and fear of dilution in Absalom, absalom!

The black arts phallus

The surreal aesthetic and the sticky racial fetish: the bluest eye and tar baby

Skin color geographies in paradise

The critique of dilution anxiety in Sent for you yesterday

Epilogue: post-dilution anxiety.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-195) and index.

OCLC:

1083082758

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access