The Flesh of the Matter

Amaris Brown, Thadious M. Davis, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Sharon P. Holland, Ra Malika Imhotep, Deborah McDowell, Fred Moten, Kiana T. Murphy

The Flesh of the Matter
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Country
United States
Published
30 October 2024
Pages
400
ISBN
9780826507501

The Flesh of the Matter

Amaris Brown, Thadious M. Davis, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Sharon P. Holland, Ra Malika Imhotep, Deborah McDowell, Fred Moten, Kiana T. Murphy

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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