Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1986.
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Notes:
- The essays … originally appeared in two issues of Critical inquiry: Autumn 1985 (vol. 12, no. 1) and Autumn 1986 (vol. 13, no. 1) –Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The uncompleted argument : Du bois and the illusion of race / Anthony Appiah — An ideology of difference / Edward W. Said — Indians / Jane Tompkins — The economy of Manichean allegory : the function of racial difference in colonialist literature / Abdul R. JanMohamed — The crows of the Arabs / Bernard Lewis — The Moor in the text / Israel Burshatin — Scratches on the face of the country or, what Mr. Barrow saw in the land of the Bushmen / Mary Louise Pratt — Signs taken for wonders / Homi K. Bhabha — Victorians and Africans / Patrick Brantlinger — Black bodies, white bodies / Sander L. Gilman — Three women’s texts and a critique of imperialism / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak — Theories of Africans / Christopher L. Miller — On the threshold of woman’s era : lynching, empire, and sexuality in Black feminist theory / Hazel V. Carby.
- (Cont.) — Thresholds of difference : structures of address in Zora Neale Hurston / Barbara Johnson — Racism’s last word / Jacques Derrida — No names apart : the separation of word and history in Derrida’s Le dernier mot du racisme / Anne McClintock and Rob Nixon — But, beyond … (open letter to Anne McClintock and Rob Nixon) / Jacques Derrida — Race, writing, and culture / Tzvetan Todorov — Caliban’s triple play / Houston A. Baker, Jr. — The hegemonic form of othering / Harold Fromm — A reply to Harold Fromm / Mary Louise Pratt — Talkin’ that talk / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Subjects:
- Racism in literature.
- Sexism in literature.
- Western literatures Special subjects: Race – Critical studies
Requested by Kurpiers, R.