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The "maw of western culture": James Baldwin and the anxieties of influence
African American Review, Winter, 2004 by Elise Miller
(9.) Upon learning of Jocasta's death, Oedipus "tore the brooches ... and lifting them up high/dashed them on his eyeballs, shrieking out/such things as: they shall never see the crime/I have committed or had done to me!" (66).
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Elise Miller, PhD, is working on a psychoanalytic study of American autobiography. She teaches at Saint Mary's College and in the American Cultures Program of the University of California-Berkeley.
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