Autumn 1985
(Volume 12, Number 1)
"RACE," WRITING, AND DIFFERENCE
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Guest Editor
Table of Contents
Editor's Introduction:
"Writing 'Race' and the Difference it Makes"
Anthony Appiah:
The Uncompleted Argument: Du Bois and the Illusion of Race
Edward W. Said:
An Ideology of Difference
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 Dehli, May 1817
Patrick Brantlinger:
Victorians and Africans: The Genealogy 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
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
