Concepedia

Abstract

Part 1 Literary differences - psychoanalysis, race and gender: 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. Part 2 Gender and poetry: euphemism, understatement and the passive -genealogy of African-American poetry gender and poetry - Charles Baudelaire and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore muteness envy. Part 3 voice of the author: 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.