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Psychoanalysis and Black Novels Desire and the Protocols of Race

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ISBN-10: 0195096835

ISBN-13: 9780195096835

Edition: 1998

Authors: Claudia Tate

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Although psychoanalytic theory is one of the most important and influential tools in contemporary literary criticism, to date it has had very little impact on the study of African-American literature and culture. Now, Claudia Tate argues that psychoanalytic paradigms can produce rich readings of African-American desire, alienation, and subjectivity. Tate summarizes the work of such figures as Freud and Lacan, with references to their contemporary literary proponents, and examines a series of texts by Emma Kelly, W.E.B. DuBois, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and Nella Larsen. This provocative new book will serve as an introduction to psychoanalytic theory and its application for…    
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Book details

List price: $83.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/12/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 8.98" wide x 6.06" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Abbreviations
Introduction: Black Textuality and Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism
Fantasizing Plenitude: Re-Reading Desire in Megda
Race and Desire: Dark Princess, A Romance
Rage, Race, and Desire: Savage Holiday
Desire and Death: Seducing the Lost Father in Quicksand
Mourning, Humor, and Reparation: Detecting the Joke in Seraph on the Suwanee
Conclusion: Plenitude in Black Textuality
Notes
Bibliography
Index