"Not even past" race, historical trauma, and subjectivity in Faulkner, Larsen, and Van Vechten /

Main Author: Stringer, Dorothy, 1976-
Corporate Author: American Literatures Initiative.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10586732
Table of Contents:
  • "Little black man": repetition, the lesbian phallus, and the southern rape complex in Sanctuary
  • "Which tooth hit you first?": nation, home, women, and violence in Requiem for a nun
  • "Anyone with half an eye": blackness and the disaster of narcissism in Quicksand
  • "A having way": fetishism and the black bourgeoisie in Passing
  • "To glorify the negro": photographic shock and blackness in Carl Van Vechten's Portraiture.