Freud Upside Down : African American Literature and Psychoanalytic Culture
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
New Black Studies Series
ISBN-10
0252035666
ISBN-13
9780252035661
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Imprint
University of Illinois Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 7th, 2010
Print length
216 Pages
Weight
434 grams
Dimensions
23.80 x 16.20 x 1.80 cms
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A salient take on psychoanalysis as a cultural phenomenon, intersecting with African American literature
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.
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