Risking difference : identification, race, and community in contemporary fiction and feminism /

Risking difference : identification, race, and community in contemporary fiction and feminism / Jean Wyatt.

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"Risking Differences revisions the dynamics of multicultural feminist community by exploring the ways that identification creates misrecognitions and misunderstandings between individuals and within communities. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, Jean Wyatt argues not only that individual psyc...

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Main Author: Wyatt, Jean
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2004.
Series:SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture.
SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory.
Subjects:
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Feminism and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
African American women > Intellectual life.
Psychoanalysis and feminism > United States.
Psychoanalysis and culture > United States.
Identification (Psychology) in literature.
Multiculturalism in literature.
Group identity in literature.
Communities in literature.
Race in literature.
American fiction > African American authors.
American fiction > Women authors.
Feminism and literature.
Psychoanalysis and culture.
Psychoanalysis and feminism.
Women and literature.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Totalizing identifications
  • the politics of envy in Academic feminist communities and in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride
  • I want you to be me: parent-child identification in D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow and Carolyn Kay Steedman's Landscape for a Good Woman
  • Identification with the Trauma of Others: Slavery, Collective Trauma, and the difficulties of representatoon of Toni Morrison 's Beloved. Part II Structures of identtification in the Visual Field
  • Race and idealization in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby and in White Feminist Cross-Race Fantasies
  • Luring the gaze: desire and interpellation in Sandra Cisneros's "Woman hollering Creek, ", Anne Tyler's Saint Maybe, Angela Carter's The magic Toyshop, and Margaret Drabble's Jerusalem the Golden
  • Disidentification and border negotiations of Gender in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creeik
  • Part III Heteropathic identifications
  • Toward Cross-Race Dialogue: Cherrie Moraga, Gloria An zaldua, and the psychoanalytic politics of community.

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