Hortense J. Spillers

Black, White, and in Color offers a long-awaited collection of major essays by Hortense Spillers, one of the most influential and inspiring black critics of the past twenty years. Spanning her work from the early 1980s, in which she pioneered a broadly poststructuralist approach to African American literature, and extending through her turn to cultural studies in the 1990s, these essays display her passionate commitment to reading as a fundamentally political act-one pivotal to rewriting the humanist project. Spillers is best known for her race-centered revision of psychoanalytic theory and for her subtle account of the relationships between race and gender. She has also given literary criticism some of its most powerful readings of individual authors, represented here in seminal essays on Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, and William Faulkner. Ultimately, the essays collected in Black, White, and in Color all share Spillers's signature style: heady, eclectic, and astonishingly productive of new ideas. Anyone interested in African American culture and literature will want to read them.

Essays on American Literature and Culture

Black, White, and in Color

Fred Moten

Saidiya Hartman

Sylvia Wynter

Denise Ferreira da SIlva

A antologia de ensaios Pensamento Negro Radical, com apresentação de María Elvira Diaz-Benítez, conta com as primeiras traduções para o português de trabalhos publicados entre 1987 e 2018. A "gramática estadunidense" de Hortense J. Spillers abre o volume, organizado cronologicamente, e suas proposições a respeito da carne feminina desgenerificada influenciam todos os outros textos da coletânea; Sylvia Wynter rememora o caso Rodney King em sua carta a colegas da Universidade; Saidiya Hartman revisita a história de duas garotas que morreram a bordo do Recovery para tratar da violência e limites impostos pelo arquivo; Fred Moten recorre a Hortense J. Spillers, Frantz Fanon, Nathaniel MacKey e John Coltrane (passando por Sócrates, Jacques Derrida, Charlie "Bird" Parker) em seu ensaio sobre pretitude (e o nada); Denise Ferreira da Silva, no texto que fecha o livro, propõe o que chama de experimento radical negro e oferece operações para hackear o Sujeito, performando sua recusa.

Pensamento negro radical

Marjorie Pryse

This collection of essays explains the emergence of black women novelists in contemporary American literature and the cultural and personal influences that made it possible for them to find their literary authority. Beginning with the 19th century origins of the tradition--the autobiographical writings and slave narratives--the volume discusses individual writers such as Pauline Hopkins, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Ann Petry and Octavia Butler; the aggregate significance of fiction by black women; and their influence on each other. Novels examined include Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters, Ann Petry's The Street, and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and The Bluest Eye. ISBN 0-253-31407-0 : $29.95; ISBN 0-253-20360-0 (pbk.) : $10.95.

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