BIBFRAME Work

Title

The flesh of the matter

Type

  • Monograph
  • Text

Contribution

Subject

  • Spillers, Hortense J.--Influence. (LCSH)
  • Spillers, Hortense J.--Criticism and interpretation. (LCSH)

Language

Classification

  • DDC: 801/.95092 (Assigner: dlc)
  • LCC: PN75.S64 F58 2024 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: uba)

Content

Supplementary content

Summary

"Critical essays and archival fragments focusing on the impacts of Hortense Spillers's writing on literature, culture, and theory"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction. On Gathering / Margo Crawford and C. Riley Snorton -- On Thon, or, Thinking Gender in the Interstice / C. Riley Snorton -- Oracular Fever Medicine: A Time Travel Oracle for Hortense Spillers / Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- The Fineness of a Sentence, or, Hortense Spillers's Theoretical Acuity / Kevin Quashie -- When Hortense Spillers and Toni Morrison Meet in the Clearing: The Hieroglyphics of Marking and Unmarking / Margo Natalie Crawford -- Performance and Preformance: Spillers' Fall / Fred Moten -- Black Reconstruction, or, Names for Love: Hortense Spillers as Reader / Anthony Reed -- The Critic Draws: Between a Body and a Building / Amaris Brown -- "whatever marvels of my own inventiveness": Black Feminist Archival Tradition in the Notebooks of Hortense Spillers / Kiana T. Murphy -- All the Things You Could Be by Now if Hortense Spillers Was Your Mentor / Nicole Adeyinka Spigner -- The Black Living Room / Shoniqua Roach -- Mama's Marvelous Tar Baby: Black Feminist Experiments in Spillersian Ecdysis / Ra Malika Imhotep -- The Lightning Bug and the Lightning: An Encomium / Deborah E. McDowell -- Bridging Figurations: Hortense J. Spillers, Essayist / Thadious M. Davis -- "All the Things You Could Be and All the Things You Are" / Sharon P. Holland.

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The flesh of the matter

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Admin Metadata

  • Date: 2026-09-11T23:55:10.496457+00:00
  • Agent: cbc
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 23752921

Admin Metadata

  • Date: 2026-09-11
  • Cataloger id: Unknown
  • Description level: bibframe-2-6-0
  • Description language: eng
  • Description authentication: pcc

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