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Hortense J. Spillers
Publications - 29
Citations - 4362
Hortense J. Spillers is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Blues. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 29 publications receiving 3526 citations.
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"Whatcha Gonna Do?"-Revisiting "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book"
Hortense J. Spillers,Saidiya Hartman,Farah Jasmine Griffin,Shelly J Eversley,Jennifer L. Morgan +4 more
TL;DR: Hortense Spillers' "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe" essay as discussed by the authors was one of the seminal works in the history of black women's writing, and it has had a profound impact on women's work.
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Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture
TL;DR: Black, White and in Colour as discussed by the authors is a collection of major essays by Hortense Spillers, one of the most influential and inspiring black 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.
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Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex, and Nationality in the Modern Text.
TL;DR: In this paper, Comparative American Identities maps out a dynamic terrain of "New World" cultural identities, questions and problems, and attempts to locate "America" as a cultural and historical site of plurality and division.