NOTES
1
Amy Elias thoroughly discusses the idea of a spatialized
historiography and postmodernism in Spatializing History
(unpublished dissertation, Pennsylvania SU, 1991). See also her
essay "Defining Spatial History in Postmodernist Historical Novels"
in Postmodern Studies ed.
Theo D'haen and
Hans Bertens
( Amsterdam: Rodopi forthcoming).
2
See my article "Approaches to Africa: The Poetics of Memory and
the Body in Two August Wilson Plays," August Wilson: A
Casebook, The Modern American Dramatists Series. Ed.
Marilyn Elkins
( The Garland Publishing, 1994).
3
See
Julia Kristeva Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
( Columbia UP, 1982).
4
Valerie Smith comments that "what happens to Pecola is
representative, not unique." Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-
American Narrative ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP) 124.
5
See
Julia Kristeva ( 1984: 16).
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Book title: Writing the Subject:Bildung and the African American Text.
Contributors: Gunilla Theander Kester - Author.
Publisher: Peter Lang.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 1995.
Page number: 150.
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