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"This is an ambitious and meticulously researched study."—Emily Zobel Marshall, Times Literary Supplement
"A lively . . . piece of cultural detective work exploring the history of the tar baby."—Library Journal
"A remarkably rich and wide-ranging book that draws on many histories, geographies, and disciplines in exploring one of the nation's—and the world's—most disturbing but strangely elusive racial stories."—Eric J. Sundquist, author of King's Dream
"Wagner's tar baby is not one we know; his account opens a wider horizon of persuasions and alignments that interrogate the onset of capitalism and the disorienting experience of early globalization."—Hortense J. Spillers, author of Black, White, and in Color

The Tar Baby

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: 12/11/2019
      ISBN13: 9780691196916, 978-0691196916
      ISBN10: 0691196915
      Also in:
      Geography Literature: history and criticism Folklore studies / Study of myth

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "This is an ambitious and meticulously researched study."—Emily Zobel Marshall, Times Literary Supplement
      "A lively . . . piece of cultural detective work exploring the history of the tar baby."—Library Journal
      "A remarkably rich and wide-ranging book that draws on many histories, geographies, and disciplines in exploring one of the nation's—and the world's—most disturbing but strangely elusive racial stories."—Eric J. Sundquist, author of King's Dream
      "Wagner's tar baby is not one we know; his account opens a wider horizon of persuasions and alignments that interrogate the onset of capitalism and the disorienting experience of early globalization."—Hortense J. Spillers, author of Black, White, and in Color

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