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Reviews As Spillers states in the preface to this book, academic acceptance did not come easily to those in the fields of Black Studies and Women's Studies, yet as the two fields gradually became accepted as permanent parts of the academic world, she won recognition for her pioneering work as a literary critic. Spillers argues that a concept of community which is centred around a physical space is rendered particularly inadequate by the fact that some communities don't even physically exist anymore. Hortense Spillers' subtle blending of race theory and gender theory is as inspiring as it is sharp. www.cercles.com /review/r14/spillers.htm   (1207 words)

Spillers on Incest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) In her essay “‘The Permanent Obliquity of an In(pha)llibly Straight’: In the Time of the Daughters and Fathers” Hortense Spillers looks at literary representation of “kinship and filiation among African-Americans cast as daughters and fathers;” she says that “in short, the line of inheritance from a male parent to a female child is not straight. Spillers introduces the problem of fatherhood in a culture where due to the effects of slavery fatherhood often remains unclear. Spillers argues that women never have any agency in the incest: “These silent figures, like materialized vectors in a field of force, are curiously silent in the sense that incest fiction, even written by women, never, as far as I know, establishes the agency of the incestuous act inside the female character” (132). www.clas.ufl.edu /boards/owl/aml6027/messages/92.html   (1256 words)

Hortense Spiller's Grammar of Black Female Identity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) The “beginning” to which she refers is the slave trade; she often uses quotation marks to indicate ways that particular words or phrases indicate something hegemonically inscribed in the language or her revision of the usual use of the term. Spillers consistently refutes this kind of analysis, pointing out how the real problem is that by legally considering African-American people merely “flesh” (as opposed to “bodies” who have personality and culturally inscribed human value), slave holders disabled the possibility of women being mothers, men being fathers, and the construction of any “family” by hegemonic standards. In sum, Spillers exposes the linguistic fact that despite having been “liberated” by the end of slavery, fl women continue to be enslaved by the discourse that violates them instead of describing or identifying them. www.clas.ufl.edu /boards/owl/aml6027/messages/89.html   (1214 words)

Hortense J. Spillers Hortense J. Spillers is the Frederick J. Whiton Professor of English, Cornell University Spillers' present work at the intersection of psychoanalysis and Black feminist criticism is, like all her writing, inflected with a generous spirit and mordant wit." —http://www.flculturalstudies.org Spillers is probably best known for her race-centered revision of psychoanalytic theory and for her subtle account of the relationships between race and gender. authors.aalbc.com /hortensespillers.htm   (732 words)

Amazon.ca: Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture: Books: Hortense J. Spillers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) Spanning her work from the early 1980s, in which she pioneered a broadly poststructuralist approach to African American literature, and extending through her turn to cultural studies in the 1990s, these essays display her passionate commitment to reading as a fundamentally political act-one pivotal to rewriting the humanist project. Spillers is best known for her race-centered revision of psychoanalytic theory and for her subtle account of the relationships between race and gender. Spillers' resolutely unorthodox and powerful thinking around the racialization and gendering of the brutal history of the United States, from the genocide of American Indians to the enslavement of Africans in the "New World". www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0226769798   (711 words)

myessay Spillers feels that all these names are “markers so loaded with mythical prepossession that there is no easy way for the agents buried beneath them to come clean” (455). Spillers feels that “ in order for me to speak a truer word concerning myself, I must strip down through the layers of attenuated meanings, made an excess in time, over time, and there await whatever marvels of my own inventiveness” (454). Spillers does not in any way see her “names” as unifying, but as blankets that cover her true self and talent. www.louisville.edu /~acstam01/myessay.html   (1799 words)

Alibris: Hortense Daughter to Napoleon; a biography of Hortense, Queen of Holland. Hortense's father fell beneath the slide of the guillotine; her mother was imprisoned and doomed to die; and she and her brother were turned penniless into the streets. Arranged in the form of a sestina (replete with authorial asides and plenty of puns, jokes and wordplay), this is the second installment in... www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Hortense   (719 words)

Black, White, and in Color -- Essays on American Literature and Culture -- Hortense J. Spillers Spillers is probably best known for her race-centered revision of psychoanalytic theory and for her account of the relationships between race and gender. Hortense J. Spillers was not only one of the first prominent figures in Women’s Studies and Black Studies, she also helped define the aims and scope of both disciplines. Henry Louis Gates writes, “Hortense Spillers has been one of the central shaping forces in African American feminist theory and criticism for the past two decades. www.frontlist.com /detail/0226769801   (558 words)

2004 St. Clair Drake Memorial Lecture with Hortense Spillers "What is Black Culture?"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) Hortense Spillers is one of the most influential and inspiring fl critics of the past twenty years. Her latest publication, Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture (2003), includes her essays from the early 1980s, in which she pioneered a broadly poststructuralist approach to African American literature, and extends through her turn to cultural studies in the 1990s. Professor Spillers will be introduced by Arnold Rampersad, Sara Hart Kimball Professor of English, and Chair of the AAAS Steering Committee. events.stanford.edu /events/32/3212   (222 words)

Amazon.de: Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture: Bücher: Hortense J. Spillers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) "Black, White and in Colour" offers a long-awaited collection of major essays by Hortense Spillers, one of the most influential and inspiring fl critics of the past 20 years. Spanning her work from the early 1980s, in which she pioneered a broadly poststructuralist approach to African American literature, and extending through her turn to cultural studies in the 1990s, these essays display her passionate commitment to reading as a fundamentally political act - one pivotal to rewriting the humanist project. Spillers is probably best known for her race-centred revision of psychoanalytic theory and for her subtle account of the relationships between race and gender. www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0226769801   (423 words)

Hortense J. Spillers Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print Hortense J. Spillers Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print Your search: Books » Author: Hortense J Spillers Spanning her work from the early 1980s, in which she pioneered a broadly poststructuralist approach to African American literature, and extending through her turn to... www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Hortense_J_Spillers   (216 words)

Calls for Presentations, Papers, Publications: Gender and Citizenship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) The Center for the Study of Citizenship's third Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, Hortense J. Spillers, the Frederick J. Whiton Professor of English at Cornell University, will serve as the keynote speaker and commentator at the conference. Professor Spillers' work has focused on the relationships between race and gender in African American and American literature. She is best known for her race-centered revision of psychoanalytic theory and for her subtle account of the relationships between race and gender. www.unm.edu /~loboblog/mort/archives/004884.html   (482 words)

Hortense Spillers Interview Whereas if I said it, they would just say "Oh, well you know that's just Hortense, and a woman at that". So that will have in it that piece, the "Mama's Baby.." piece expanded, a piece on the mulatto figure which is an expansion of an essay in the 'The Difference Within.' It's based on an essay called "Neither/Nor: Notes on an Alternative Model" (see Hortense Spillers. Back to Hortense Spillers front page I Back to Black Cultural Studies front page www.blackculturalstudies.org /spillers/spillers_intvw.html   (9336 words)

Distinguished Visitor in Ethnic Studies-Dr.Hortense Spillers One of the foremost feminist critics and theorists in the field of fl women's literature, Hortense Spillers has, enormously enriched African diasporic literary and cultural criticism throughout her prestigious career. Besides contributing numerous critical articles to a variety of journals, Dr. Spillers has edited Dr. Spillers is the Frederick J. Whiton Professor of English at Cornell University. www.uic.edu /las/afam/hortensespillers/index.htm   (150 words)

Intersubjective openings: Rethinking feminist psychoanalytics of desire beyond heteronormative ambivalence -- Driver 6 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) Spillers, I trace conceptual openings through which to interpret Spillers, Hortense J. (1987) ‘Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book’, Diacritics 17(2): 65-81. Spillers, Hortense J. (2003) ‘"All the Things You Could Be by Now, if Sigmund Freud’s Wife Was Your Mother": Psychoanalysis and Race’, pp. fty.sagepub.com /cgi/content/refs/6/1/5?ck=nck   (254 words)

Hortense Spillers HORTENSE J. Literary critic Hortense Spillers, who presently teaches in the English Department at Cornell University, has, over the past twenty years, enormously enriched African diasporic literary and cultural criticism. Spillers' present work at the intersection of psychoanalysis and Black feminist criticism is, like all her writing, inflected with a generous spirit and mordant wit. We hope also to reproduce some of her writing here in the future. www.blackculturalstudies.org /spillers/spillers_index.html   (68 words)

Dartmouth News - Dartmouth conference to explore race in the academy - 10/03/02 Cornel West, Hortense Spillers, among others, to speak Panelists will include Cornel West, Class of 1943 University Professor of Religion, Princeton University; Hortense Spillers, Whiton Professor of English, Cornell University; and Eric Lott, Professor of American Studies and Cultural Studies, University of Virginia. Case Study #2: "How race matters enter the curriculum," held from 1:30 – 3:00 pm, will explore the development and implementation of the race, ethnicity, and migration requirement in the Dartmouth College undergraduate curriculum. www.dartmouth.edu /~news/releases/2002/oct/100302a.html   (834 words)

Traumatic attachments: A Lacanian analysis of African-American racial identity (Jacques Lacan, Hortense Spillers, Henry ... Traumatic attachments: A Lacanian analysis of African-American racial identity (Jacques Lacan, Hortense Spillers, Henry Louis Gates, Lucius Outlaw, Houston Baker) African-American scholars such as Hortense Spillers, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Lucius Outlaw, and Houston Baker suggest that there is a political utility in the concept of race. Their work, either implicitly or directly, argues that by embracing the concept of race African Americans have been attempting to resignify this concept, to give race a new meaning that African Americans attempt themselves to determine. escholarship.bc.edu /dissertations/AAI3176662   (295 words)

Plan-It Purple Event Details: Hortense Spillers, 2006 Leon Forrest Lecturer - April 21, 2006 Plan-It Purple Event Details: Hortense Spillers, 2006 Leon Forrest Lecturer - April 21, 2006 Hortense Spillers, literary critic and Professor of English at Cornell University, has guided and enriched African diasporic literary and cultural criticism for over twenty years. Perhaps best known for her race-centered interpretation of psychoanalytic theory, her work has also considered the African American sermon, the affect of migration on the fl cultural experience, and has revisited the intersection of race and gender in the literature of Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison and others. aquavite.northwestern.edu /cal/pp/eventd.cgi?e=32538&date=   (134 words)

Critical Theory Emphasis - News - Spillers Professor Spillers' scholarly interests are primarily focused on the study Spillers recommends reading the following essay by W. Du Bois, “Conservation of Professor Spillers' mini-seminar is likely to be popular with graduate www.humanities.uci.edu /cte/news/Spillers.html   (226 words)

Publisher-supplied biographical information about contributor(s) for Library of Congress control number 2002014268 Publisher-supplied biographical information about contributor(s) for Black, white, and in color : essays on American literature and culture / Hortense J. Spillers. The Library of Congress makes no claims as to the accuracy of the information provided, and will not maintain or otherwise edit/update the information supplied by the publisher. She is the editor of Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex, and Nationality in the Modern Text and coeditor of Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction, and Literary Tradition. www.loc.gov /catdir/bios/uchi051/2002014268.html   (180 words)

Spillers, Hortense J.: Black, White, and in Color   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) Spillers, Hortense J.: Black, White, and in Color Spillers, Hortense J. Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture. Email questions about this site to WWW team. www.press.uchicago.edu /cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/15526.ctl   (334 words)

Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2002014268   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2002014268 Publisher description for Black, white, and in color : essays on American literature and culture / Hortense J. Spillers. Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog www.loc.gov /catdir/description/uchi051/2002014268.html   (266 words)

Books at Duke University Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) Ralph Ellison addresses the ways in which Ellison’s writings about art were also efforts to think about and discuss political agency. Jonathan Arac, Kevin Bell, Adam Gussow, Ronald A. Judy, Robert O’Meally, Donald E. Pease, Barry Shank, Hortense Spillers, Kenneth Warren, Alexander G. Weheliye, John Wright “The Little Man at Chehaw Station” Today / Hortense J. Spillers www.dukeupress.edu /books.php3?isbn=8223-6559-6   (379 words)

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