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The Flesh of the Matter
A Critical Forum on Hortense Spillers
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The Flesh of the Matter
A Critical Forum on Hortense Spillers
About this book
PROSE Awards Category WinnerāMedia 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.
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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Publisher
Vanderbilt University PressYear
2024Print ISBN
9780826507495, 9780826507501eBook ISBN
9780826507518Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: On Gathering
- Archival Fragment 1. Calendar entry for The Scholar and the Feminist Conference
- 1 On Thon, or, Thinking Gender in the Interstice
- 2 Oracular Fever Medicine
- 3 The Fineness of a Sentence, or, Hortense Spillersās Theoretical Acuity
- Archival Fragment 2. A letter from Toni Morrison to Hortense Spillers, 1984
- 4 When Hortense Spillers and Toni Morrison Meet in the Clearing
- 5 Performance and Preformance
- Archival Fragment 3. Journal Entry on Gwendolyn Brooks
- 6 Black Reconstruction, or, Names for Love
- 7 The Errant Protester
- 8 āwhatever marvels of my own inventivenessā
- 9 All the Things You Could Be by Now If Hortense Spillers was Your Mentor
- Archival Fragment 4. Images of Hortense Spillers in her living room
- 10 The Black Living Room
- Archival Fragment 5. Journal entry from 1970
- 11 Mamaās Marvelous Tar Baby
- Archival Fragment 6. Sparebone program, 1970
- Archival Fragment 7. Letter to Hortense Spillers from Judith Butler, 1992
- 12 Grammars and Impression Points
- 13 Bridging Figurations
- Archival Fragment 8. āIn the Flesh,ā handwritten talk
- 14 āAll the Things You Could Be and All the Things You Areā
- Archival Fragment 9. Handwritten album list in Spillerās journal
- Afterword
- Appendix
- Contributors