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A critique of theory through literature that celebrates the diversity of black being, The Desiring Modes of Being Black explores how literature unearths theoretical blind spots while reasserting the legitimacy of emotional turbulence in the controlled realm of reason that rationality claims to establish. This approach operates a critical shift by examining psychoanalytical texts from the literary perspective of black desiring subjectivities and experiences. This combination of psychoanalysis and the politics of literary interpretation of black texts helps determine how contemporary African American and black literature and queer texts come to defy and challenge the racial and sexual postulates of psychoanalysis or indeed any theoretical system that intends to define race, gender and sexualities.The Desiring Modes of Being Black includes essays on James Baldwin, Sigmund Freud, Melvin Dixon, Essex Hemphill, Assotto Saint, and Rozena Maart. The metacritical reading they unfold interweaves African American Culture, Fanonian and Caribbean Thought, South African Black Consciousness, French Theory, Psychoanalysis, and Gender and Queer Studies.

Race in literature. --- Blacks in literature. --- Desire in literature. --- Dixon, Melvin, --- Baldwin, James, --- Maart, Rozena. --- Baldwin, James --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Philosophical anthropology --- Sociology of literature --- American literature --- Black people in literature.

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American literature --- Comparative literature --- anno 1800-1999 --- Paris --- African American authors --- African Americans --- Harlem Renaissance --- Ecrivains noirs américains --- Noirs Américains --- Littérature américaine --- Biography --- History --- History and criticism --- Biographie --- Histoire --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Histoire et critique --- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) --- Paris (France) --- Intellectual life --- Vie intellectuelle --- Ecrivains noirs américains --- Noirs Américains --- Littérature américaine --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Americans --- Authors, American --- New Negro Movement --- Renaissance, Harlem --- African American arts --- American authors --- Yankees --- Ethnology --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Blacks --- Afro-American authors --- Authors, African American --- Negro authors --- Homes and haunts --- African American authors&delete& --- Harlem, New York (City) --- Intellectual life. --- France --- Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt --- Criticism and interpretation --- Hughes, Langston --- Locke, Alain Leroy --- Cullen, Countee --- McKay, Claude --- Fauset, Jessie Redmon --- Wright, Richard --- Baldwin, James --- Himes, Chester --- Kelley, William Melvin --- Bennett, Gwendolyn B. --- Dixon, Melvin --- Smith, William Gardner --- Joans, Ted --- Emanuel, James A. --- Locke, Alain LeRoy, 1885-1954 --- History. --- Black people --- LITTERATURE AFRO-AMERICAINE --- DU BOIS (WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT), 1868-1963 --- LOCKE (ALAIN) --- CULLEN (COUNTEE) --- MacKAY (CLAUDE), 1889-1948 --- FAUSET (JESSIE) --- BENNETT (GWENDOLYN) --- WRIGHT (RICHARD), 1908-1960 --- BALDWIN (JAMES) --- SMITH (WILLIAM GARDNER) --- KELLEY (WILLIAM MELVIN) --- DIXON (MELVIN) --- JOANS (TED) --- EMANUEL (JAMES) --- HIMES (CHESTER), 1909-1984 --- HUGHES (LANGSTON), 1902-1967 --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE