Blackness and value
Subtitle: seeing double
By: Lindon Barrett.
Series: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Petry, Ann, -- 1908-  -- Political and social views.; American literature -- Afro-American authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Violence -- Social aspects -- United States.; Race -- Social aspects -- United States.; Afro-Americans in literature.; Social values -- United States.; Violence in literature.; Racism -- United States.; Race in literature.; Duality (Logic); United States -- Race relations.
Description: "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.
Notes: Based on author's thesis (Ph.D) - University of Pennsylvania.

Includes bibliographical references and index.