Title Dilution anxiety and the black phallus / Margo Natalie Crawford

Published Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2008] ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 200 pages) : illustrations Contents 'She should have been a boy': shades of blackness in three lives and the blacker the berry -- The fantasy and fear of dilution in Absalom, absalom! -- The black arts phallus -- The surreal aesthetic and the sticky racial fetish: the bluest eye and tar baby -- Skin color geographies in paradise -- The critique of dilution anxiety in Sent for you yesterday -- Epilogue: post-dilution anxiety Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-195) and index Notes Print version record Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Human skin color in literature. Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century Colorism -- United States 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. Human body in literature. Difference (Psychology) in literature. Mestizaje in literature. Mestizaje in literature American literature Colorism Difference (Psychology) in literature Human body in literature Human skin color in literature Human skin color -- Psychological aspects Human skin color -- Social aspects Miscegenation in literature Politics and literature Race awareness in literature Race in literature Race relations in literature Literatur Körper Motiv Hautfarbe Motiv Ethnische Identität Motiv Rassenbeziehung (Motiv) United States USA Schwärze Schwarze (Motiv) Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book

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