| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 272 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; [116]
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Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 116.
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| Note |
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-267) and index. |
| Summary |
"Blackness and Value investigates the principles by which "value" operates and asks whether it is useful to imagine that the concepts of racial blackness and whiteness in the United States operate in terms of these principles." "The book traces several interrelations between value and race, such as literate/illiterate, the signing/singing voice, time/space, civic/criminal, and academy/street, and offers relevant and fresh readings of two novels by Ann Petry. Whereas commonly approaches to race and value are examined historically or sociologically, this intriguing study provides a new critical approach that speaks to theorists of race as well as gender and queer studies."--Jacket. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Part I. Violence and the unsightly: Figures of violence -- Figuring others of value -- (Further) figures of violence -- Part II. Reasonings and reasonableness: De-marking limits -- Part III. Phonic and scopic economies: Signs of others -- Signs of the visible. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Petry, Ann, 1908-1997 -- Political and social views.
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Petry, Ann, 1908-1997. |
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Political and social views. |
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Petry, Ann Lane, 1911- |
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American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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American literature -- African American authors. |
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Literature and society. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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20th century |
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African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life. |
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Violence -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Violence -- Social aspects. |
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Violence. |
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Race -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Race -- Social aspects. |
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Race. |
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans in literature. |
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United States -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
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Social values -- United States.
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Social values. |
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Violence in literature.
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Violence in literature. |
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Racism -- United States.
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Racism. |
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Race in literature.
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Race in literature. |
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Duality (Logic)
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Duality (Logic) |
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Racism. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Barrett, Lindon, 1961- Blackness and value. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999 0521621038 (DLC) 97052757 (OCoLC)38144471 |
| ISBN |
0511003455 (electronic book) |
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9780511003455 (electronic book) |
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0521621038 (hardback) |
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