Abstract:Her dissertation, titled "Psychoanalytics: Toward A Black Object Study," theorizes blackness through engagement with three representational fields: literature, psychoanalysis, and black studies. Building on Spillers's term "psychoanalytics," she makes a case for the usefulness of psychoanalytic thinking for black feminist literary methods. Though her intervention speaks to African American literary studies specifically, it is directly shaped by Caribbean afro-diasporic literature and thought. She also particip… Show more
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