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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464362803321

Autore

Stringer Dorothy <1976->

Titolo

"Not even past" [[electronic resource] ] : race, historical trauma, and subjectivity in Faulkner, Larsen, and Van Vechten / / Dorothy Stringer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-8232-4108-4

0-8232-4820-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p. ) : port. ;

Disciplina

813/.52

Soggetti

Racism in literature

Subjectivity in literature

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"American Literatures Initiative"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"Little black man": repetition, the lesbian phallus, and the southern rape complex in Sanctuary -- "Which tooth hit you first?": nation, home, women, and violence in Requiem for a nun -- "Anyone with half an eye": blackness and the disaster of narcissism in Quicksand -- "A having way": fetishism and the black bourgeoisie in Passing -- "To glorify the negro": photographic shock and blackness in Carl Van Vechten's Portraiture.

Sommario/riassunto

Anticipating contemporary trauma studies by decades, these disparate modernists' works parallel psychoanalytic thinkers of the same era and offer important resources for psychoanalytic approaches to racial difference today.