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Collins, Terence George – 1976
The essay defines and illustrates ways in which the anxiety of separation and the fantasy of dirt play a key role in shaping the response of readers to texts loosely defined as "racial." The work of Wheatley, Wright, and Baldwin, as well as that of some of the new black poets, is examined in relation to the psychoanalytic theories which…
Descriptors: Black Literature, Doctoral Dissertations, Fiction, Literary Criticism
