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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811839903321

Autore

Ahad Badia Sahar

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2010

ISBN

1-283-02869-7

9786613028693

0-252-09000-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Collana

The new Black studies series

Classificazione

18.06

Disciplina

810/.9352996073019

Soggetti

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

African Americans in literature

Psychology in literature

Psychoanalysis in literature

Race in literature

Race - Psychological aspects

African Americans - Psychology

Psychoanalysis and literature - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.