Freud upside down : African American literature and psychoanalytic culture /

Ahad, Badia Sahar.

Freud upside down : African American literature and psychoanalytic culture / Badia Sahar Ahad. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2010. - 1 online resource. - The new Black studies series .

Includes bibliographies 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.



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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.


Electronic Books.

PS153 / .F748 2010