The Feminist Difference - Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race, & Gender : Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race, and Gender

Introduction 1(14) I LITERARY DIFFERENCES: PSYCHOANALYSIS, RACE, AND GENDER 15(74) Is Female to Male as Ground Is to Figure? 17(20) The Quicksands of the Self: Nella Larsen and Heinz Kohut 37(24) The Re(a)d and the Black: Richard Wright's Blueprint 61(13) ``Aesthetic'' and ``Rapport'' in Toni Morrison's Sula 74(15) II GENDER AND POETRY 89(66) Euphemism, Understatement, and the Passive Voice: Genealogy of African-American Poetry 91(10) Gender and Poetry: Charles Baudelaire and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore 101(28) Muteness Envy 129(26) III THE ``VOICE'' OF THE AUTHOR 155(40) Lesbian Spectacles: Reading Sula, Passing, Thelma and Louise, and The Accused 157(8) The Alchemy of Style and Law 165(18) The Postmodern in Feminism: A Response to Mary Joe Frug 183(12) Notes 195(16) Credits 211(2) Index 213