Title Blackness and value : seeing double / Lindon Barrett

Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999

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Description xii, 272 pages ; 24 cm Series Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; [116] Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 116 Contents Machine derived contents note: 1. Introduction -- Part I. Violence and the unsightly: 2. Figures of violence -- 3. Figuring others of value -- 4. (Further) figures of violence -- Part II. Reasonings and Reasonableness: 5. De-marking limits -- Part III. Phonic and Scopic Economies: 6. Signs of others -- 7. Signs of the visible Notes Based on author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-267) and index Subject Petry, Ann, 1908-1997 -- Political and social views. African Americans in literature. African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. Duality (Logic) Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Race in literature. Race -- Social aspects -- United States. Racism -- United States. Social values -- United States. Violence in literature. Racism in literature. Violence -- Social aspects -- United States. SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494 LC no. 97052757 ISBN 0521621038 (hardback)

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