Risking Difference: Identification, Race, and Community in Contemporary Fiction and Feminism (SUNY series in Psychoanalysis and Culture and SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory) - Softcover

Wyatt, Jean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791461289 ISBN 13: 9780791461280

Verlag: SUNY Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Jean Wyatt comes from a medical family and is married to a tropical physician. She and her husband traveled widely together as medical doctors, but have now retired. They have three living children, and five grandchildren; two of the children are also medical practitioners. Jean is a Lay Reader in St. John's Church, Waterloo, Liverpool, and is a Christian Counselor.

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• Verlag: SUNY Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0791461289
• ISBN 13: 9780791461280
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 300
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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