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Author:

Crawford, Margo Natalie, 1969-

Title:

Dilution anxiety and the Black phallus / Margo Natalie Crawford.

Publisher:

Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

viii, 200 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Human skin color in literature
Politics and literature--United States--History--20th century.
Human skin color--United States--Psychological aspects.
Human skin color--Social aspects--United States.
Race awareness in literature
Race in literature
Race relations in literature
Miscegenation in literature
Human body in literature
Difference (Psychology) in literature

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-195) and index.

Contents:

'She should have been a boy': shades of blackness in Three lives and The blacker the berry -- The fantasy and fear of dilution in Absalom, Absalom! -- The black arts phallus -- The surreal aesthetic and the sticky racial fetish: The bluest eye and Tar baby -- Skin color geographies in Paradise -- The critique of dilution anxiety in Sent for you yesterday -- Epilogue: post-dilution anxiety.

ISBN:

0814251684 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814251683 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0814210910 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814210918

OCLC:

(OCoLC)220859173

LCCN:

2008015056

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)