"Not even past" : race, historical trauma, and subjectivity in Faulkner, Larsen, and Van Vechten /

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Anticipating contemporary trauma studies by decades, these disparate modernists' works parallel psychoanalytic thinkers of the same era and offer important resources for psychoanalytic approaches to racial difference today.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stringer, Dorothy, 1976- (Author)
Corporate Author: American Literatures Initiative
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Faulkner, William, > 1897-1962 > Criticism and interpretation.
Larsen, Nella > Criticism and interpretation.
Van Vechten, Carl, > 1880-1964 > Criticism and interpretation.
Faulkner, William, > 1897-1962
Larsen, Nella
Van Vechten, Carl, > 1880-1964
1900-1999
Racism in literature.
Subjectivity in literature.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Racisme dans la littérature.
Subjectivité dans la littérature.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
PSYCHOLOGY > Movements > Psychoanalysis.
American fiction
Racism in literature
Subjectivity in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "Little black man" : repetition, the lesbian phallus, and the southern rape complex in Sanctuary
  • "Which tooth hit you first?" : nation, home, women, and violence in Requiem for a nun
  • "Anyone with half an eye" : blackness and the disaster of narcissism in Quicksand
  • "A having way" : fetishism and the black bourgeoisie in Passing
  • "To glorify the negro" : photographic shock and blackness in Carl Van Vechten's Portraiture.

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