| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 238 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Race and American culture
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Race and American culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-227) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
Although psychoanalytic theory is one of the most potent and influential tools in contemporary literary criticism, to date it has had very little impact on the study of African American literature. Critical methods from the disciplines of history, sociology, and cultural studies have dominated work in the field. Now, in this exciting new book by the author of Domestic Allegories: The Black Heroine's Text at the Turn of the Century, Claudia Tate demonstrates that psychoanalytic paradigms can produce rich and compelling readings of African American textuality. With clear and accessible summaries. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- African American authors. |
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Psychological fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Psychological fiction, American. |
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Psychoanalysis and literature -- United States.
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Psychoanalysis and literature. |
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United States. |
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African Americans -- Intellectual life.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life. |
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans in literature. |
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Desire in literature.
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Desire in literature. |
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Race in literature.
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Race in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tate, Claudia. Psychoanalysis and Black novels. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998 0195096827 9780195096828 (DLC) 97008423 (OCoLC)36648477 |
| ISBN |
9780198025689 (electronic book) |
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0198025688 (electronic book) |
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9780195096828 (alkaline paper) |
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0195096827 (alkaline paper) |
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0195096835 (Paper) |
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0195096827 (alkaline paper) |
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9780195096835 |
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