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Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book
Hortense J. Spillers
Diacritics, Vol. 17, No. 2, Culture and Countermemory: The
"American" Connection. (Summer,
1987), pp. 64-81.
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Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe Grammar Analysis

  • 1. Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book Hortense J. Spillers Diacritics, Vol. 17, No. 2, Culture and Countermemory: The "American" Connection. (Summer, 1987), pp. 64-81. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0300- 7162%28198722%2917%3A2%3C64%3AMBPMAA%3E2.0.CO %3B2-B Diacritics is currently published by The Johns Hopkins University Press. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at http://www.jstor.org/journals/jhup.html. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed
  • 2. page of such transmission. JSTOR is an independent not-for-profit organization dedicated to and preserving a digital archive of scholarly journals. For more information regarding JSTOR, please contact [email protected] http://www.jstor.org Wed Dec 27 18:24:43 2006 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0300- 7162%28198722%2917%3A2%3C64%3AMBPMAA%3E2.0.CO %3B2-B http://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html http://www.jstor.org/journals/jhup.html