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"Not even past" [electronic resource] : race, historical trauma, and subjectivity in Faulkner, Larsen, and Van Vechten / Dorothy Stringer.

By: Stringer, Dorothy, 1976-.
Contributor(s): American Literatures Initiative | ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2010Edition: 1st ed.Description: viii, 177 p. : ports.Subject(s): Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation | Larsen, Nella -- Criticism and interpretation | Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964 -- Criticism and interpretation | Racism in literature | Subjectivity in literature | American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 813/.52 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
"Little black man": repetition, the lesbian phallus, and the southern rape complex in Sanctuary -- "Which tooth hit you first?": nation, home, women, and violence in Requiem for a nun -- "Anyone with half an eye": blackness and the disaster of narcissism in Quicksand -- "A having way": fetishism and the black bourgeoisie in Passing -- "To glorify the negro": photographic shock and blackness in Carl Van Vechten's Portraiture.

"American Literatures Initiative"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Little black man": repetition, the lesbian phallus, and the southern rape complex in Sanctuary -- "Which tooth hit you first?": nation, home, women, and violence in Requiem for a nun -- "Anyone with half an eye": blackness and the disaster of narcissism in Quicksand -- "A having way": fetishism and the black bourgeoisie in Passing -- "To glorify the negro": photographic shock and blackness in Carl Van Vechten's Portraiture.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.