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Subject(s)

• American literature—African American authors—History and criticism [Browse]
• African Americans in literature [Browse]
• Psychology in literature [Browse]
• Psychoanalysis in literature [Browse]
• Race in literature [Browse]
• Race—Psychological aspects [Browse]
• African Americans—Psychology [Browse]
• Psychoanalysis and literature—United States [Browse]

Series

• New Black studies series [More in this series]
• The new Black studies series

Summary note

This thought provoking cultural history explores how psychoanalytic theories shaped the works of important African American literary figures. Badia Sahar Ahad details how Nella Larsen, Richard Wright, Jean Toomer, Ralph Ellison, Adrienne Kennedy, and Danzy Senna employed psychoanalytic terms and conceptual models to challenge notions of race and racism in twentieth-century America. --Book Jacket.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

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.

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ISBN

• 9780252035661 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0252035666 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010016581

OCLC

601331372

RCP

H - S

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