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title	:	Blackness and Value : Seeing Double Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture ; [116]
author	:	Barrett, Lindon.
publisher	:	Cambridge University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0521621038
print isbn13	:	9780521621038
ebook isbn13	:	9780511003455
language	:	English
subject	American literature--African American authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc, Literature and society--United States--History--20th century, Petry, Ann Lane,--1911- --Political and social views, Violence--Social aspects--United States, Race--Social as
publication date	:	1999
lcc	:	PS153.N5B296 1999eb
ddc	:	810.9/896073
subject	:	American literature--African American authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc, Literature and society--United States--History--20th century, Petry, Ann Lane,--1911- --Political and social views, Violence--Social aspects--United States, Race--Social as

Page i Blackness and Value Seeing Double Blackness and Value investigates the principles by which "value" operates and asks whether it is useful to imagine that the concepts of racial blackness and whiteness in the United States operate in terms of these principles. Testing these concepts by exploring various theoretical approaches and their shortcomings, Lindon Barrett finds that the gulf between "the street" (where race is acknowledged as a powerful enigma) and the literary academy (where until recently it has not been) can be understood as a symptom of racial violence. The book traces several interrelations between value and race, such as literate/illiterate, the signing/singing voice, time/space, civic/criminal, and academy/street, and offers relevant and fresh readings of two novels by Ann Petry. Whereas commonly approaches to race and value are examined historically or sociologically, this intriguing study provides a new critical approach that speaks to theorists of race as well as gender and queer studies. Lindon Barrett is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature and the Program in African-American Studies at the University of California, Irvine.

Page iii CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE Editor Eric Sundquist, University of California, Los Angeles Founding Editor Albert Gelpi, Stanford University Advisory Board Nina Baym, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Sacvan Bercovitch, Harvard University Albert Gelpi, Stanford University Myra Jehlen, Rutgers University Carolyn Porter, University of California, Berkeley Robert Stepto, Yale University Tony Tanner, King's College, Cambridge University Books in the series 115. Janet Casey, Dos Passos and the Ideology of the Feminine 114. Caroline Levander, Voices of the Nation: Women and Public Speech in 19th-Century American Literature and Culture 113. Harryette Mullen, Freeing the Soul: Race, Subjectivity, and Difference in Slave Narratives 112. Dennis A. Foster, Sublime Enjoyment: On the Perverse Motive in American Literature 111. Eileen Gregory, H.D. and Hellenism: Classic Lines 110. Beverly Haviland, Henry James's Last Romance: Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene 109. Alfred Arteaga, Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities 108. Richard Godden, Fictions of Labor: William Faulkner and the South's Long Revolution 107. Mark W. Van Wienen, Partisans and Poets: The Political Work of American Poetry in the Great War 106. Robin Grey, The Complicity of Imagination: The American Renaissance, Contests of Authority, and 17th-Century English Culture

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Page vi PUBLISHED BY CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS (VIRTUAL PUBLISHING) FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE PUBLISHED BY THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RP, United Kingdom CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA http://www.cup.org 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, Melbourne 3166, Australia Lindon Barrett 1999 This edition Lindon Barrett 2001 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 1999 Printed in the United States of America Typeset in Baskerville 10.5/12.5 pt, in QuarkXPress [RF] A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Barrett, Lindon Blackness and value : seeing double / Lindon Barrett. p. cm. (Cambridge studies in American literature and culture) Based on author's thesis (Ph.D.) University of Pennsylvania. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-521-62103-8 1. American literature Afro-American authors History and criticism Theory, etc. 2. Literature and society United States History 20th century. 3. Petry, Ann Lane, 1911- Political and social views. 4. Violence Social aspects United States. 5. Race Social aspects United States. 6. Afro-Americans in literature. 7. United States Race relations. 8. Social values United States.

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