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...Robert F. Reid-Pharr In a reading of Samuel R. Delany's underexamined 1984 science fiction novel, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand , Reid-Pharr uses the work of theorists such as Leo Bersani, Mary Douglas, Orlando Patterson, and Hortense Spillers to question the necessity of gay men's...

...Robert Reid-Pharr By Leonard Cassuto. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 1997. xix, 289 pp. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $17.50. 2000 Reviews 6059 American Literature 72:2 / sheet 179 of223 Providence Tales and the Birth of American Literature. By James D. Hartman...

...Robert Reid-Pharr By Siobhan B. Somerville. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2000. xi, 259 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $17.95. 2001 Book Reviews 439 It is fair to wonder...

...Candice Jenkins By Thomas Cooley. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2001. xxvi, 302 pp. $34.95. By Robert F. Reid-Pharr. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1999. xi, 166 pp.$35.00. 2003 Book Reviews...

..., and Spain. Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique . By Robert F. Reid-Pharr . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2016 . xiii, 257 pp. Cloth, $89.00 ; paper, $28.00 ; e-book available. Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish...

... that extends work by Brent Hayes Edwards, Robert F. Reid-Pharr, and Nadia Nurhussein. To manifest this argument, this article examines Paul Robeson’s speeches at rallies in London that he later reprinted in his autobiography Here I Stand (1958) and Claude McKay’s posthumously published novel Amiable with Big...

... Reviews 187 ticular interest is a point to which he returns in several other instances: the frequent incompatibility of the ‘‘desiring’’ black body and the black domestic sphere. As Reid-Pharr points out...

..., and the Black American. By Robert F. Reid- Pharr. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1999. xi, 166 pp. $35.00. In quite different ways, Thomas Cooley and Robert Reid-Pharr examine an entrenched preoccupation of nineteenth...

..., and Philosophical Pragmatism, 208–10. Reid-­Pharr, Robert F. “Clean: Death and Desire in Samuel R. Delany’s Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand,” 389–411. Rifkin, Mark. Review: Lyons, X-­Marks: Native Signatures of Assent, 449–51. Review: O’Brien, Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence...

...” (10), he is not only saying, like Saidiya Hartman ( 1997 ), Robert Reid-Pharr ( 1999 ), and Hortense Spillers ( 1987 ) before him, that blackness is linked with sexual transgression through the history of racist spectacle but that blackness has an erotic subversiveness through which queer of color...

... wanted to replace this persona with an antislavery lecturer and woman of the world. Her choices are with us still’’ (STLS, 260–61). But this fractured portrait accurately reflects the life it represents, a life shaped by the unstable but potent contingencies of race. Robert Reid-Pharr has written...

... that such a notion often entails, Sharon DeGraw and Tucker empha- size the connections among multiple discursively formed subject posi- tions.38 The pitfalls of this rhetoric of fluidity and fixity are captured well in Robert Reid-­Pharr’s analysis of Delany. Reid-­Pharr allows Delany’s deconstructive...

... interest in how the changing superhero generates new affective bonds that correspond to emerging “cosmopolitan networks of kinship and affiliation” nicely complements Higgins’s exploration of cosmopolitan ethics. For Robert Reid-­Pharr, such affective fashionings mandate a con- scious...

... will be forthcoming from both Somerville and the many scholars who will find themselves challenged by this exciting new book. Robert Reid-Pharr, Johns Hopkins University 6363 AMERICAN LITERATURE 73:2 / sheet 214 of 232...

...-Pharr 1999 ; Smith 1997 ; Shklar 1991 ; Wald 1995 ; Warner 1990 . As the decade came to a close, Hartman’s Scenes of Subjection (1997), among other works, provided a fundamental and radical reorientation in our understanding of citizenship and the law as mechanisms of subjection. 12...

... a critique of the myths of Virginia by which he celebrates the history of his state. The Book of Numbers. By Robert Deane Pharr. Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia. 1969; reprint, 2001. 382 pp. Paper, $18.95. Scholars of Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, hard-boiled fiction, and African American...

...- looked kinships—exposing the ‘‘one drop’’ rule to new scrutiny. 23 Robert F. Reid-Pharr argues that Walker’s images of children shock be- cause Walker means to disturb notions of childhood innocence. Her crit- ics have ‘‘missed the point. The black girl whom Walker creates ought...

... Black Men (New York: Routledge, 1996); HazelV.Carby,Race Men (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1998); Mi- chael Awkward, Negotiating Difference: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Positionality (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1995); Robert Reid-Pharr, Tearing the Goat’s Flesh...

..., and remains con- fined—as merely reproductive life—to the sphere of the oikos, ‘home’” (1998, 2). See also Habermas 1989 (3–4); and Dillon 2004. Bentley (2009, 281) usefully glosses Robert Reid-Pharr’s reframing of this issue as it pertains to nineteenth-century African Americans...

... will grow out of it. 6059 American Literature 72:2 / sheet 205 of223 Robert Reid-Pharr, Johns Hopkins University Cultural Orphans in America. By Diana Loercher Pazicky. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 1998. xx, 232 pp. $40.00...