04424nam 2200841Ia 450 991080836330332120200520144314.00-7914-8488-21-4237-3968-X(CKB)1000000000458371(OCoLC)62739642(CaPaEBR)ebrary10594769(SSID)ssj0000238691(PQKBManifestationID)11208336(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000238691(PQKBWorkID)10234666(PQKB)11356370(MiAaPQ)EBC3408442(OCoLC)62348626(MdBmJHUP)muse6164(DE-B1597)682561(DE-B1597)9780791484883(EXLCZ)99100000000045837120030912d2004 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrRisking difference identification, race, and community in contemporary fiction and feminism /Jean Wyatt1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20041 online resource (297 p.) SUNY series in psychoanalysis and cultureSUNY series in feminist criticism and theoryBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7914-6127-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-273) and index.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 CitedRisking 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.American fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismFeminism and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWomen and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAfrican American womenIntellectual lifePsychoanalysis and feminismUnited StatesPsychoanalysis and cultureUnited StatesIdentification (Psychology) in literatureMulticulturalism in literatureGroup identity in literatureCommunities in literatureRace in literatureAmerican fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Feminism and literatureHistoryWomen and literatureHistoryAmerican fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.African American womenIntellectual life.Psychoanalysis and feminismPsychoanalysis and cultureIdentification (Psychology) in literature.Multiculturalism in literature.Group identity in literature.Communities in literature.Race in literature.813/.5099287Wyatt Jean1595293MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808363303321Risking Difference3916167UNINA