عنوان

Risking difference :

0791461270

0791461289

9780791461273

9780791461280

b524733

Risking difference :

[Book]

identification, race, and community in contemporary fiction and feminism /

Jean Wyatt

Albany :

State University of New York Press,

[2004]

©2004

x, 286 pages ;

23 cm

SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory

SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-273) and index

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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"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 psychic processes of identification influence social dynamics, but also that social discourses of race, class, and culture shape individual identifications. In addition to examining fictional narratives by Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Sandra Cisneros, Toni Morrison, and others, Wyatt also looks at nonfictional accounts of cross-race relations by white feminists and feminists of color."--Jacket

Risking difference.

African American women-- Intellectual life

American fiction-- African American authors-- History and criticism

American fiction-- Women authors-- History and criticism

Communities in literature

Feminism and literature-- United States-- History-- 20th century

Group identity in literature

Identification (Psychology) in literature

Multiculturalism in literature

Psychoanalysis and culture-- United States

Psychoanalysis and feminism-- United States

Race in literature

Women and literature-- United States-- History-- 20th century

Wyatt, Jean

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