Introduction: The Canon Wars and Psychoanalysis xi -- 1 The Canonical Unconscious 1 -- 2 Dispossessing the Self: "The Yellow Wall-paper" and the Renunciation of Property 31 -- 3 The Awakening of Desire, or, Why Edna Pontellier Isn't a Man 47 -- 4 Acting without the Father: Charles Chesnutt's New Aristocrat 69 -- 5 Liberation and Domination: Their Eyes Were Watching God and the Evolution of Capitalism 85 -- 6 Agency and the Traumatic Encounter: Politics after Poststructuralism 101
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-140) and index
