Psychoanalysis and Black Novels: Desire and the Protocols of Race by Claudia Tat

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This book serves as an introduction to psychoanalytic theory and its applications for African American literature and culture. The author argues that psychoanalytic paradigms can produce rich readings of African American desire, alienation, and subjectivity.

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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 demonstratesthat psychoanalytic paradigms can produce rich and compelling readings of African American textuality. With clear and accessible summaries of key concepts in Freud, Lacan, and Klein, as well as deft referenceto the work of contemporary psychoanalytic critics of literature, Tate explores African- American desire, alienation, and subjectivity in neglected novels by Emma Kelley, W.E.B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and Nella Larsen. Her pioneering approach highlights African American textual realms within and beyond those inscribing racial oppression and modes of black resistance. A superb introduction to psychoanalytic theory and its applications for African American literature andculture, this book creates a sophisticated critical model of black subjectivity and desire for use in the study of African American texts.

Author Biography

Claudia Tate is Professor of African-American and American Literatures at George Washington University. She is the author of the forthcoming Desire and the Rituals of Race (OUP, November 1996) and editor of The Works of Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman (OUP, 1991).

Review

"...intriguing....Tate's study raises crucial questions about the way African American subjectivity is addressed within literary studies....she inspires a reevaluation of how texts produce that black subjectivity."--Modernism/Modernity"Tate reads these somewhat obscure black novels in ways that they have never been read before, applying theoretical principles as effectively as anyone else has ever done. Insights into the psyches of Hurston, Larsen, Wright and others are absolutely invaluable."--James Robert Saunders, Purdue University"...each of her chapters is arguably the best that has ever been done on these neglected and/or misunderstood literary works."--Modern Fiction Studies"...intriguing....Tate's study raises crucial questions about the way African American subjectivity is addressed within literary studies....she inspires a reevaluation of how texts produce that black subjectivity."--Modernism/Modernity"Tate reads these somewhat obscure black novels in ways that they have never been read before, applying theoretical principles as effectively as anyone else has ever done. Insights into the psyches of Hurston, Larsen, Wright and others are absolutely invaluable."--James Robert Saunders, Purdue University

Long Description

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 demonstratesthat psychoanalytic paradigms can produce rich and compelling readings of African American textuality. With clear and accessible summaries of key concepts in Freud, Lacan, and Klein, as well as deft reference to the work of contemporary psychoanalytic critics of literature, Tate explores African- Americandesire, alienation, and subjectivity in neglected novels by Emma Kelley, W.E.B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and Nella Larsen. Her pioneering approach highlights African American textual realms within and beyond those inscribing racial oppression and modes of black resistance. A superb introduction to psychoanalytic theory and its applications for African American literature and culture, this book creates a sophisticated critical model of black subjectivity and desire for use inthe study of African American texts.

Review Text

"...intriguing....Tate's study raises crucial questions about the way African American subjectivity is addressed within literary studies....she inspires a reevaluation of how texts produce that black subjectivity."--Modernism/Modernity"Tate reads these somewhat obscure black novels in ways that they have never been read before, applying theoretical principles as effectively as anyone else has ever done. Insights into the psyches of Hurston, Larsen, Wright and others are absolutely invaluable."--James Robert Saunders, Purdue University"...each of her chapters is arguably the best that has ever been done on these neglected and/or misunderstood literary works."--Modern Fiction Studies"...intriguing....Tate's study raises crucial questions about the way African American subjectivity is addressed within literary studies....she inspires a reevaluation of how texts produce that black subjectivity."--Modernism/Modernity"Tate reads these somewhat obscure black novels in ways that they have never been read before, applying theoretical principles as effectively as anyone else has ever done. Insights into the psyches of Hurston, Larsen, Wright and others are absolutely invaluable."--James Robert Saunders, Purdue University

Review Quote

"Tate reads these somewhat obscure black novels in ways that they havenever been read before, applying theoretical principles as effectively as anyoneelse has ever done. Insights into the psyches of Hurston, Larsen, Wright andothers are absolutely invaluable."--James Robert Saunders, PurdueUniversity

Details ISBN0195096835 Author Claudia Tate Short Title PSYCHOANALYSIS & BLACK NOVELS Language English ISBN-10 0195096835 ISBN-13 9780195096835 Media Book Format Paperback Subtitle Desire and the Protocols of Race Position Professor of English Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Affiliation Professor of English, Princeton University UK Release Date 1999-02-18 AU Release Date 1999-02-18 NZ Release Date 1999-02-18 US Release Date 1999-02-18 Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Series Race and American Culture Year 1999 Publication Date 1999-02-18 DEWEY 813.009353 Illustrations 4 halftones Audience Professional & Vocational Pages 256 We've got this

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