Psychoanalysis and Black novels : desire and the protocols of race / Claudia Tate.

By:

Tate, Claudia

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Race and American culturePublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 238 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780198025689
0198025688
9780195096828
0195096827
9786610533664
6610533660
1280533668
9781280533662

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Psychoanalysis and Black novels.DDC classification:

813.009/896073 22

LOC classification:

PS374.N4 T36 1998eb

Other classification:

18.06
HU 1813
HU 1819

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-227) and index.

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.