Resonances of Slavery in Race/Gender Relations : Shadow at the Heart of American Politics / / by J. Flax

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910959981703321
• Autore: Flax Jane
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2010
• ISBN: 9786613066909; 9781283066907; 1283066904; 9780230117464; 0230117465
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2010.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (237 p.)
• Collana: Breaking Feminist Waves, , 2945-7009
• Disciplina: 305.800973
• Soggetti: America - Literatures; Race; Sex; Feminism; Feminist theory; African Americans; Culture; North American Literature; Race and Ethnicity Studies; Gender Studies; Feminism and Feminist Theory; African American Culture
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : we aren't there yet -- Shadow at the heart : race/gender domination and the melancholia of American politics -- Melancholia : a genealogy -- Fabricating subjectivity : monster's ball, the deep end and crash as enactments of race/gender in the contemporary United States -- Paradise lost : domination, citizenship and the limits of political liberalism -- Politics for fallen angels : subjectivity, democratic ; citizenship, and undoing race/gender melancholia -- In-conclusion : remedies and constraints.
• Sommario/riassunto: Jane Flax argues that a reciprocal relationship exists between unconscious processes and race/gender domination and that unless we attend to these unconscious processes, no adequate remedy for the malignant consequences of our current race/gender practices and relations can be devised. Flax supports her arguments using a variety of sources.