Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-140) and index.
Contents
The canonical unconscious -- Dispossessing the self: "The yellow wall-paper" and the renunciation of property -- The awakening of desire, or, why Edna Pontellier isn't a man -- Acting without the father: Charles Chesnutt's new aristocrat -- Liberation and domination: Their eyes were watching God and the evolution of capitalism -- Agency and the traumatic encounter: politics after poststructuralism.