| Description |
xvi, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Race and American culture |
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Race and American culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-227) and index. |
| 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. |
| Audience |
1470L Lexile |
| Subject |
American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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Psychological fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Psychoanalysis and literature -- United States.
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African Americans in literature.
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Desire in literature.
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Race in literature.
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| ISBN |
0195096827 alkaline paper |
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0195096835 paperback alkaline paper |
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