Risking difference : identification, race, and community in contemporary fiction and feminism / / Jean Wyatt

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910808363303321
• Autore: Wyatt Jean
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2004
• ISBN: 0-7914-8488-2; 1-4237-3968-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Collana: SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture; SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory
• Disciplina: 813/.5099287
• Soggetti: American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism; Feminism and literature - United States - History - 20th century; Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century; American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism; African American women - Intellectual life; Psychoanalysis and feminism - United States; Psychoanalysis and culture - United States; Identification (Psychology) in literature; Multiculturalism in literature; Group identity in literature; Communities in literature; Race in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-273) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I Want to Be You -- Totalizing Identifications -- The Politics of Envy in Academic Feminist Communities and in Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride -- I Want You To Be Me -- Identification with the Trauma of Others -- Structures of Identification in the Visual Field -- Race and Idealization in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby and in White Feminist Cross-Race Fantasies -- Luring the Gaze -- Disidentification and Border Negotiations of Gender in Sandra Cisneros’s Woman Hollering Creek -- Heteropathic Identifications -- Toward Cross-Race Dialogue -- The Challenges of ; Infant Research and Neurobiology to Traditional Models of Primary Identification -- Notes -- Works Cited
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.