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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ahad, Badia Sahar.

Series:

New Black studies.

The new Black studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

African Americans in literature.

Psychology in literature.

Psychoanalysis in literature.

Race in literature.

Race--Psychological aspects.

Race.

African Americans--Psychology.

African Americans.

Psychoanalysis and literature--United States.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613028693

9781283028691

1283028697

9780252090004

0252090004

OCLC:

961597264