Psychoanalysis and Black Novels Desire and the Protocols of Race

Name: Psychoanalysis and Black Novels Desire and the Protocols of Race
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ISBN: 9780195096828

ISBN-10: 0195096827

ISBN-13: 9780195096828

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 psycholanalytic 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. Du Bois, 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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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/12/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.20" wide x 9.30" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction Black Textuality and Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism



Fantasizing Plenitude: Re-Reading Desire in Megda, by Emma Dunham Kelley



Race and Desire: Dark Princess, A Romance, by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois



Rage, Race, and Desire Savage Holiday, by Richard Wright



Desire and Death: Seducing the Lost Father in Quicksand, by Nella Larsen



Mourning, Humor, and Reparation Detecting the Joke in Seraph on the Suwanee, by Zora Neale Hurston


Conclusion Plenitude in Black Textuality


Notes


Bibliography


Index