Psychoanalysis and Black Novels: Desire and the Protocols of Race

by Claudia Tate

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195096835
• ISBN13: 9780195096835
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"