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Essentialism and its Discontents

to inscribe new exclusions of their own. DuCille recognizes the value of the theories-such as those of Houston Baker-that helped give impetus to the project of reclaiming neglected writers and texts; indeed, she creatively extends and builds on them. But she is wary of their tendency to promote a brand of essentialism that fails to do justice to the richness and complexity of either the literature or the lived experience that produced it. In particular, she argues that theories about racial authenticity and tradition that helped make it possible to