The Feminist Difference

Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race, and Gender

Barbara Johnson

    Introduction

    Literary Differences: Psychoanalysis, Race, and Gender

    Is Female to Male as Ground is to Figure?

    The Quicksands of the Self: Nella Larsen and Heinz Kohut

    The Re(a)d and the Black: Richard Wright's Blueprint

    'Aesthetic' and 'Rapport' in Toni Morrison's Sula

    Gender and Poetry

    Euphemism, Understatement, and the Passive Voice: Phillis Wheatley and the Genealogy of African-American Poetry

    Gender and Poetry: Charles Baudelaire and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

    Muteness Envy

    The "Voice" of the Author

    Lesbian Spectacles: Reading Sula, Passing, Thelma and Louise, and The Accused

    The Alchemy of Style and Law

    The Postmodern in Feminism: A Response to Mary Joe Frug

    Notes

    Credits

    Index

  • Cover: The Feminist Difference

Barbara Johnson taught in the departments of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University and was the Frederic Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society. She is the author of The Critical Difference, A World of Difference, and The Wake of Deconstruction.