Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewHortense 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Margo Natalie Crawford , C. Riley Snorton , Amaris Brown , Thadious M. DavisPublisher: Vanderbilt University Press Imprint: Vanderbilt University Press ISBN: 9780826507501ISBN 10: 0826507506 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 15 October 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsIntroduction: On Gathering Margo Natalie Crawford and C. Riley Snorton [Archival Fragment 1: Calendar entry of The Scholar and the Feminist Conference] On Thon, or, Thinking Gender in the Interstice C. Riley Snorton Oracular Fever Medicine: A Time Travel Oracle for Hortense Spillers Alexis Pauline Gumbs The Fineness of a Sentence, or, Hortense Spillers’s Theoretical Acuity Kevin Quashie [Archival Fragment 2: A letter from Toni Morrison to Hortense Spillers, 1984] When Hortense Spillers and Toni Morrison Meet in the Clearing: The Hieroglyphics of Marking and Unmarking Margo Natalie Crawford Performance and Preformance Fred Moten [Archival Fragment 3: Journal entry on Gwendolyn Brooks] Black Reconstruction, or, Names for Love: Hortense Spillers as Reader Anthony Reed The Critic Draws: Between a Body and a Building Amaris Brown “whatever marvels of my own inventiveness”: Black Feminist Archival Tradition in the Notebooks of Hortense Spillers Kiana T. Murphy All the Things You Could Be by Now if Hortense Spillers Was Your Mentor Nicole Adeyinka Spigner [Archival Fragment 4: Images of Hortense Spillers in her living room] The Black Living Room Shoniqua Roach [Archival Fragment 5: Journal entry, 1970] Mama’s Marvelous Tar Baby: Black Feminist Experiments in Spillersian Ecdysis Ra Malika Imhotep [Archival Fragment 6: Sparebone program] [Archival Fragment 7: Letter to Hortense Spillers that names Deborah McDowell and Cheryl Wall] Grammars and Impression Points: Appreciating Hortense Spillers Deborah McDowell Bridging Figurations: Hortense J. Spillers, Essayist Thadious M. Davis [Archival Fragment 8: In the Flesh, handwritten talk] All the Things You Could Be and All the Things You Are Sharon P. Holland [Archival Fragment 9: Handwritten album list in Spillers’s journal] Notes Contributor Biographies IndexReviewsAuthor InformationMargo Natalie Crawford is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. C. Riley Snorton is the Mary R. Morton Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
