What is a Classic? Postcolonial Rewriting and invention of the Canon by Ankhi Mukherjee (review)

TLDR: Lindon Barrett, Blackness and value: Seeing Double (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999) as discussed by the authors is a seminal work in the field of African American literature and culture.

Abstract: 255 Notes 1. Lindon Barrett, Blackness and Value: Seeing Double (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999). Blackness and Value grew out of Barrett’s doctoral dissertation, completed at the University of Pennsylvania; all references to the text come from this edition, page numbers internally noted. 2. See Hortense J. Spillers, “The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Post-Date,” in Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), 427–70.