Risking Difference: Identification, Race, and Community in Contemporary Fiction and Feminism - Couverture souple

Wyatt, Jean

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0791461289 ISBN 13 : 9780791461280

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2004

Synopsis

Looks at the dynamics of identification, envy, and idealization in fictional narratives by Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Sandra Cisneros, Toni Morrison, and others, as well as in nonfictional accounts of cross-race relations by white feminists and feminists of color.

Risking Difference 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jean Wyatt is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Occidental College and the author of Reconstructing Desire: The Role of the Unconscious in Women's Reading and Writing.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791461289
• ISBN 13: 9780791461280
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 294
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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