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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450324703321

Autore

Seshadri-Crooks Kalpana

Titolo

Desiring whiteness : a Lacanian analysis of race / / Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-280-10919-X

0-203-26089-9

0-203-45478-2

1-134-73861-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

Feminism for today

Disciplina

155.8/2

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis and racism

Race - Psychological aspects

Race awareness

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [168]-175) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Key to Lacan's works; Introduction: on looking; Deciphering Whiteness; The object of Whiteness; Whiteness and the elephant joke; Looking alike: or the ethics of Suture; What's in a name? Love and knowledge beyond identity in ~Recitatif~; Discolorations; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A compelling new interpretation of how we understand race, using Lacanian analysis to explore the visual discrimation we make between races, and including close readings of literary and film texts.