Oedipus rex at eve's bayou or the little black girl who left sigmund freud1 in the swamp

Cultural Studies

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 311-340

  Soyini Madison, D ^a  

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Author keywords

Art; Blackness; Freud; Lacan; Memory; Truth

Indexed keywords

EID: 37849189357     PISSN: 09502386     EISSN: 14664348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/095023800334904     Document Type: Article

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