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Black, White, and in Color - Essays on American Literature and Culture (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)
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Black, White, and in Color - Essays on American Literature and Culture (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)
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"Black, White and in Colour" offers a long-awaited collection of
major essays by Hortense Spillers, one of the most influential and
inspiring black critics of the past 20 years. Spanning her work
from the early 1980s, in which she pioneered a broadly
poststructuralist approach to African American literature, and
extending through her turn to cultural studies in the 1990s, these
essays display her passionate commitment to reading as a
fundamentally political act - one pivotal to rewriting the humanist
project. Spillers is probably best known for her race-centred
revision of psychoanalytic theory and for her subtle account of the
relationships between race and gender. She has also given literary
criticism some of its most powerful readings of individual authors,
represented here in seminal essays on Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn
Brooks, and William Faulkner. Other essays such as "Who Cuts the
Border?" consider the effect of migration on the black cultural
experience. "Moving on Down the Line" opens a fascinating window
onto the African American sermon. "A Hateful Passion, a Lost Love"
contrasts fiction by Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurtston and
Margaret Walker. A new preface and introduction that appear here
for the first time trace the trajectory of the author's career and
point the way toward new lines of inquiry. Ultimately, the essays
collected in "Black, White and in Colour" all share Spillers's
signature style: heady, eclectic, and astonishingly productive of
new ideas. Anyone interested in African American culture and
literature should want to read them.
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