The Flesh of the Matter: A Critical Forum on Hortense Spillers

By: Amaris Brown and Thadious M. Davis and Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Sharon P. Holland and Ra Malika Imhotep and Deborah E. McDowell and Fred Moten and Kiana T. Murphy and Kevin Quashie and Anthony Reed and Shoniqua Roach and Nicole A. Spigner and Hortense Spillers

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9780826507518
Related ISBNs:: 9780826507495
Publisher:: Vanderbilt University Press
Date of Addition:: 11/15/24
Copyrighted By:: Vanderbilt University Press
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Margo Natalie Crawford
Edited by:: C. Riley Snorton