Flesh of the Matter

A Critical Forum on Hortense Spillers

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Av Amaris Brown, Thadious M. Davis, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Sharon P. Holland, Ra Malika Imhotep, Deborah McDowell, Fred Moten, Kiana T. Murphy, Kevin Quashie, Anthony Reed, Shoniqua Roach, Nicole Adeyinka Spigner, Margo Natalie Crawford, C. Riley Snorton

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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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Utgivningsdatum2024-10-30
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt547 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor336
FörlagVanderbilt University Press
ISBN9780826507495

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Introduction: On GatheringMargo 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 IntersticeC. Riley SnortonOracular Fever Medicine: A Time Travel Oracle for Hortense SpillersAlexis Pauline GumbsThe Fineness of a Sentence, or, Hortense Spillers’s Theoretical AcuityKevin 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 UnmarkingMargo Natalie CrawfordPerformance and PreformanceFred Moten[Archival Fragment 3: Journal entry on Gwendolyn Brooks]Black Reconstruction, or, Names for Love: Hortense Spillers as ReaderAnthony ReedThe Critic Draws: Between a Body and a BuildingAmaris Brown“whatever marvels of my own inventiveness”: Black Feminist Archival Tradition in the Notebooks of Hortense SpillersKiana T. MurphyAll the Things You Could Be by Now if Hortense Spillers Was Your MentorNicole Adeyinka Spigner[Archival Fragment 4: Images of Hortense Spillers in her living room]The Black Living RoomShoniqua Roach[Archival Fragment 5: Journal entry, 1970]Mama’s Marvelous Tar Baby: Black Feminist Experiments in Spillersian EcdysisRa 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 SpillersDeborah McDowellBridging Figurations: Hortense J. Spillers, EssayistThadious M. Davis[Archival Fragment 8: In the Flesh, handwritten talk]All the Things You Could Be and All the Things You AreSharon P. Holland[Archival Fragment 9: Handwritten album list in Spillers’s journal]NotesContributor BiographiesIndex