Female subjects in black and white : race, psychoanalysis, feminism /
edited by Elizabeth Abel, Barbara Christian, Helene Moglen.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, �1997.
- 1 online resource (vii, 373 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
"This collection of essays originated with a conference, Psychoanalysis in African American Contexts: Feminist Reconfigurations, which was held in Oct. 1992 at the University of California at Santa Cruz"--Acknowledgments.
Includes bibliographical references.
The occult of true black womanhood : critical demeanor and black feminist studies / Ann duCille -- Doing justice to the subjects : mimetic art in a multicultural society : the work of Anna Deavere Smith / Tania Modleski -- "Racial composition" : Metaphor and the body in the writing of race / Margaret Homans -- Black writing, white reading : race and the politics of feminist interpretation / Elizabeth Abel -- "All the things you could be by now, if Sigmund Freud's wife was your mother" : psychoanalysis and race / Hortense J. Spillers -- Seeing sentiment : photography, race, and the innocent eye / Laura Wexler -- "Beyond mortal vision" : Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig and the American racial dream-text / Katherine Clay Bassard -- Redeeming history : Toni Morrison's Beloved / Helene Moglen -- Re-placing race in (white) phychoanalytic discourse : founding narratives of feminism / Jean Walton -- The Quicksands of the self : Nella Larsen and Heinz Kohut / Barbara Johnson -- Passing, queering : Nella Larsen's psychoanalytic challenge / Judith Butler -- The stories of O(Dessa) : Stories of complicity and resistance / Mae G. Henderson -- Pauline Hopkins and William James : The new psychology and the politics of race / Cynthia D. Schrager -- Channeling the ancestral muse : Lucille Clifton and Dolores Kendrick / Akasha (Gloria) Hull -- the poetics of identity : questioning spiritualism in African American contexts / Carolyn Martin Shaw -- Fixing methodologies : Beloved / Barbara Christian.
English.
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