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

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

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Literary CriticismGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0826507492
ISBN13: 9780826507495
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: Oct 30 2024
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
PROSE Awards Category Winner-Media and Cultural Studies, 2025

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.

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