Freud Upside Down: African American Literature and Psychoanalytic Culture

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UPSIDE DOWN UPSIDE DOWN UPSIDE DOWN African American Literature African American Literature and Psychoanalytic Culture and Psychoanalytic Culture and Psychoanalytic Culture and Psychoanalytic Culture FREUD UPSIDE DOWN BADIA SAHAR AHAD 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 literature and psychoanalysis and considers the creative approaches of African American writers to psychological thought in their work and their personal lives. BADIA SAHAR AHAD is an assistant professor of English at Loyola University. A volume in The New Black Studies Series, edited by Darlene Clark Hine and Dwight A. McBride Author photo by Cortez A. Carter Freud Upside Down the new black studies series Edited by Darlene Clark Hine and Dwight A. McBride A list of books in the series appears at the end of this book. ...