...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 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 to...

...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...

...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...

...Gary Edward Holcomb 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...

... 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, the...

..., 302 pp. $34.95. Conjugal Union: The Body, the House, and the Black American. By Robert F. Reid- Pharr. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1999. xi, 166 pp. $35.00. In quite...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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 engagement with the exclusions of...

... “blackness is queer” (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...

... race. Robert Reid-Pharr has written of the importance of exploring ‘‘the ideological calculus by which our understanding of the black body is wedded to our understanding of black literature and literacy noting that ‘‘it is taken almost without question that Black American literature is that which...

... 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 impulses to gain ground, taking up his argu- ment that identities cannot be compartmentalized...

.... 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 literature will be interested in the reprint of this 1969 novel, part of the Virginia...