Not Even Past : : Race, Historical Trauma, and Subjectivity in Faulkner, Larsen, and Van Vechten / / Dorothy Stringer.

Not Even Past highlights references to nineteenth-century U.S. slavery and anti-Black racism in literary and photographic projects begun during the late 1920s and early 1930s, including novels by William Faulkner and Nella Larsen, and portraits by Carl Van Vechten. These texts share a representation...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
©2010
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 6 Illustrations, black and white
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 “Little Black Man”: Repetition, the Lesbian Phallus, and the Southern Rape Complex in Sanctuary
  • 2 “Which Tooth Hit You First?”: Nation, Home, Women, and Violence in Requiem for a Nun
  • 3 “Anyone with Half an Eye”: Blackness and the Disaster of Narcissism in Quicksand
  • 4 “A Having Way”: Fetishism and the Black Bourgeoisie in Passing
  • 5 “To Glorify the Negro”: Photographic Shock and Blackness in Carl Van Vechten’s Portraiture
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index