12 Melancholia, the New Negro, and the Fear of Modernity: Forms Sublime and Denigrated in Countee Cullen’s Writings

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations of the Works of Melanie Klein x
5. Introduction: Anxieties and Their Vicissitudes 1
6. PART ONE
7. 1 Itineraries 23
8. 2 Kleinian Metapsychology 55
9. 3 Femininities: Melancholia, Masquerade, and the Paternal Superego 72
10. 4 Masculinities: Anxiety, Sadism, and the Intricacies of Object-Love 94
11. 5 Kleinian Melancholia 118
12. 6 The Death Drive and Aggression 137
13. 7 The Setting (Up) of Phantasy 162
14. PART TWO
15. 8 Modernist Cultures of the Death Drive 193
16. 9 Framing the Fetish: To the Lighthouse: Ceci n’est pas un roman 218
17. 10 Funereal Rites: Melancholia, Masquerade, and the Art of Biography in Lytton Strachey 273
18. 11 Melancholia Reborn: Djuna Barnes’s Styles of Grief 306
19. 12 Melancholia, the New Negro, and the Fear of Modernity: Forms Sublime and Denigrated in Countee Cullen’s Writings 343
20. Afterword: Modern(ist) Cultures of the Death Drive and the Melancholic Apparatus 386
21. Notes 395
22. Bibliography 451
23. Index 475