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Writing prejudices :

(Number (ISBN

0791448754 (alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

0791448762 (pbk. : alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

9780791448755 (alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

9780791448762 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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b524809

Title Proper

Writing prejudices :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the psychoanalysis and pedagogy of discrimination from Shakespeare to Toni Morrison /

First Statement of Responsibility

Robert Samuels.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Albany :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

State University of New York Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c2001.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

ix, 196 p. ;

Dimensions

24 cm.

Series Title

SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-189) and index.

Text of Note

Introduction -- Racism, sexism, and homophobia in Othello -- The cycle of prejudice in Shakespeare's miscegenating Sonnets -- The Tempest: colonial desire, homophobic racism, and the ideological structures of prejudice -- Frankenstein's homosocial colonial desire -- The heart of darkness and homophobic colonial desire -- Internalized racism and the structures of prejudice in The bluest eye -- Beloved: psychoanalytic cultural criticism and the national unconscious -- Conclusion.

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"Writing Prejudices addresses critical attempts to undermine prejudice through education in general, and literary studies in particular. Robert Samuels argues that these attempts often fail because they do not take into account the different forms of prejudice, the role played by homophobia in racism and sexism, the structure of what Lacan calls symbolic castration, and the unconscious foundations of cultural formations. Addressing these deficiencies, Samuels uses psychoanalytic theory to examine the manifestations of racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, and homophobia in the works of Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Joseph Conard, and Toni Morrison, showing how these distinct modes of oppression feed off of each other and the diverse ways that cultural critics can work to undermine them."--BOOK JACKET.

Morrison, Toni-- Criticism and interpretation.

Discrimination in literature.

English literature-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.

Homophobia in literature.

Prejudices in literature.

Psychoanalysis and literature-- England.

Psychoanalysis and literature-- United States.

Racism in literature.

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Book number

Samuels, Robert,1961-

Date of Transaction

20140220045219.0

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