Freud Upside Down: African American Literature and Psychoanalytic Culture

by Badia Sahar Ahad

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252035666
• ISBN13: 9780252035661
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"