The feminist difference : literature, psychoanalysis, race, and gender / Barbara Johnson.

Author/creator Johnson, Barbara
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©1998.
Descriptionviii, 215 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects

Contents Is female to male as ground is to figure? -- The quicksands of the self : Nella Larsen and Heinz Kohut -- The re(a)d and the black : Richard Wright's blueprint -- "Aesthetic" and "Rapport" in Toni Morrison's Sula -- Euphemism, understatement, and the passive voice : genealogy of African-American poetry -- Gender and poetry : Charles Baudelaire and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore -- Muteness envy -- Lesbian spectacles : reading Sula, Passing, Thelma and Louise, and The accused -- The alchemy of style and law -- The postmodern in feminism : a response to Mary Joe Frug.
Local noteLittle-308710--305131015488$
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 195-210) and index.
LCCN 97045009
ISBN0674298810 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PN98.W64 J64 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold