The Flesh of the Matter
A Critical Forum on Hortense Spillers
Thadious M Davis author Alexis Pauline Gumbs author Ra Malika Imhotep author Amaris Brown author Sharon P Holland author Deborah McDowell author Margo Natalie Crawford editor C Riley Snorton editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Vanderbilt University Press
Publishing:15th Oct '24
£86.00
This title is due to be published on 15th October, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Hortense Spillers is one of the most important literary critics and Black feminist scholars of the last fifty years. Her 1987 scholarly article “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book” is one of the most-cited essays in African American literary studies.
Edited by Margo Natalie Crawford and C. Riley Snorton, The Flesh of the Matter: A Critical Forum on Hortense Spillers is the first collection to take up directly how Spillers’s writing on literature, culture, and theory have been signal posts to the varied and universal threads of Black thought, as well as countless other areas of the academy. Interspersed with archival fragments from Spillers’s papers kept at the Pembroke Center for Feminist Thought at Brown University, the fourteen essays in this collection demonstrate a fidelity to the ways of reading Spillers has taught us, the nomenclature of enslavement keyed into the American lexicon, and the ways that history permeates our cultural boundaries today.
ISBN: 9780826507501
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400 pages