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Adrienne Kennedy
African American literature
America
American
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black studies
black writers
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cultural studies
culture
Danzy Seena
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Jean Toomer
literary studies
literature
Nella Larsen
Psychoanalysis
race
race relations
racism
Ralph Ellison
Richard Wright
twentieth-century literature
Product details
- ISBN 9780252035661
- Weight: 426g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 Oct 2010
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Badia Sahar Ahad is an assistant professor of English at Loyola University.
