Freud upside down : African American literature and psychoanalytic culture / Badia Sahar Ahad.

Author
Ahad, Badia Sahar [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2010.
Description
xi, 195 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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Series
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Introduction
  • The politics and production of interiority in the Messenger magazine (1922-23)
  • The anxiety of birth in Nella Larsen's Quicksand
  • Art's imperfect end: race and Gurdjieff in Jean Toomer's Transatlantic
  • "A genuine cooperation": Richard Wright's and Ralph Ellison's psychoanalytic conversations
  • Maternal anxieties and political desires in Adrienne Kennedy's Dramatic circle
  • Racial sincerity and the biracial body in Danzy Senna's Caucasia.
ISBN
  • 9780252035661 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0252035666 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2010016581
OCLC
601331372
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