Dilution anxiety and the black phallus
By: Margo Natalie Crawford.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780814251683; 9780814210918
Subjects: 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; Body, Human, in literature; Difference (Psychology) in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 'She should have been a boy': shades of blackness in three lives and the blacker the berry; title: The fantasy and fear of dilution in Absalom, absalom!; title: The black arts phallus; title: The surreal aesthetic and the sticky racial fetish: the bluest eye and tar baby; title: Skin color geographies in paradise; title: The critique of dilution anxiety in Sent for you yesterday; title: Epilogue: post-dilution anxiety.