The Flesh of the Matter - A Critical Forum on Hortense Spillers

Hortense Spillers is one of the most important literary critics and Black feminist scholars of the last fifty years. Her 1987 scholarly article -Mama-s Baby, Papa-s Maybe- is one of the most-cited essays in African American literary studies. This essays in this collection demonstrate a fidelity to the ways of reading Spillers has taught us.