TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Freud upside down : African American literature and psychoanalytic culture
T2  - The new Black studies series
A1  - Ahad, Badia Sahar
LA  - eng
PP  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
YR  - 2010
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.2231956
AB  - 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.
SN  - 9780252035661 hardback
KW  - African Americans in literature.
KW  - African Americans : Psychology.
KW  - American literature : African American authors : History and criticism.
KW  - Psychoanalysis and literature : United States.
KW  - Psychoanalysis in literature.
KW  - Psychology in literature.
KW  - Race in literature.
KW  - Race : Psychological aspects.
KW  - afroamerikkalainen kirjallisuus
KW  - kulttuuri
KW  - psykoanalyysi
KW  - rotu
ER  -