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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910965275003321
• Autore: Ahad Badia Sahar
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2010
• ISBN: 9786613028693; 9781283028691; 1283028697; 9780252090004; 0252090004
• 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. Freud Upside Down explores the relationship between these authors and intellectuals and the psychoanalytic movement emerging in the United States over the course of the twentieth century. Examining how psychoanalysis has functioned as a cultural phenomenon within African American literary intellectual communities since the 1920s, Ahad lays out the historiography of the intersections between African American literature and psychoanalysis and considers the creative approaches of African American writers to psychological thought in their work and their personal lives.