04328nam 2200841Ia 450 991096527500332120200520144314.097866130286939781283028691128302869797802520900040252090004(CKB)3390000000006570(OCoLC)961597264(OCoLC)710888822(OCoLC)741259559(OCoLC)816649699(OCoLC)923496103(OCoLC)988498916(OCoLC)992005550(OCoLC)1037942740(OCoLC)1038613874(OCoLC)1045522517(OCoLC)1066495599(OCoLC)1081289912(OCoLC)1126025051(OCoLC)1137103989(OCoLC)1156366394(OCoLC)ocn961597264(CaPaEBR)ebrary10603924(SSID)ssj0000543755(PQKBManifestationID)11344086(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000543755(PQKBWorkID)10531287(PQKB)10131721(MiAaPQ)EBC3414129(MdBmJHUP)muse23701(Au-PeEL)EBL3414129(CaPaEBR)ebr10603924(CaONFJC)MIL302869(OCoLC)923496103(Perlego)2382815(EXLCZ)99339000000000657020100422d2010 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrFreud upside down African American literature and psychoanalytic culture /Badia Sahar Ahad1st ed.Urbana University of Illinois Pressc20101 online resource (215 p.)The new Black studies seriesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780252035661 0252035666 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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. New Black studies.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAfrican Americans in literaturePsychology in literaturePsychoanalysis in literatureRace in literatureRacePsychological aspectsAfrican AmericansPsychologyPsychoanalysis and literatureUnited StatesAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.African Americans in literature.Psychology in literature.Psychoanalysis in literature.Race in literature.RacePsychological aspects.African AmericansPsychology.Psychoanalysis and literature810/.935299607301918.06bclAhad Badia Sahar1812674MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910965275003321Freud upside down4365189UNINA