The Flesh of the Matter - Amaris Brown, Thadious M. Davis, Alexis Pauline Gumbs

The Flesh of the Matter

A Critical Forum on Hortense Spillers
Buch | Hardcover
400 Seiten
2024
Vanderbilt University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8265-0750-1 (ISBN)
107,20 inkl. MwSt
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” is one of the most-cited essays in African American literary studies. This essays in this collection demonstrate a fidelity to the ways of reading Spillers has taught us.
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.

Margo 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.

Introduction: 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
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 15.10.2024
Zusatzinfo 20 b&w images
Verlagsort Tennessee
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 0-8265-0750-6 / 0826507506
ISBN-13 978-0-8265-0750-1 / 9780826507501
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