Race, Writing, And Difference - 86 edition

1. Introduction: Writing ''Race'' and the Difference It Makes Anthony Appiah - The Uncomplicated Argument: Du Bois and the Illusion of Race Edward W. Said - An Ideology of Difference Jane Tompkins - ''Indians'': Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History Abdul R. JanMohamed - The Economy of Manichean Allegory: The Function of Racial Difference in Colonialist Literature Bernard Lewis - The Crows of the Arabs Israel Burshatin - The Moor in the Text: Metaphor, Emblem, and Silence Mary Louise Pratt - Scratches on the Face of the Country; or, What Mr. Barrow Saw in the Land of the Bushmen Homi K. Bhabha - Signs Taken for Wonders: Questions of Ambivalence and Authority under a Tree Outside Delhi, May 1817 Patrick Brantlinger - Victorians and Africans: The Geneaology of the Myth of the Dark Continent Sander L. Gilman - Black Bodies, White Bodies: Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality in Late Nineteenth-Century Art, Medicine, and Literature Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism Christopher L. Miller - Theories of Africans: The Question of Literary Anthropology Hazel V. Carby - ''On the Threshold of Woman's Era'': Lynching, Empire, and Sexuality in Black Feminist Theory Barbara Johnson - Thresholds of Difference: Structures of Address in Zora Neale Hurston Jacques Derrida - Racism's Last Word Anne McClintock and Rob Nixon - No Names Apart: The Separation of Word and History in Derrida's ''Le Dernier Mot du Racisme'' Jacques Derrida - But, beyond . . . (Open Letter to Anne McClintock and Rob Nixon) Tzvetan Todorov - ''Race,'' Writing, and Culture Houston A. Baker, Jr. - Caliban's Triple Play Harold Fromm - The Hegemonic Form of Othering; or, The Academic's Burden Mary Louise Pratt - A Reply to Harold Fromm Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - Talkin' That Talk Index