LEADER 03232nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910812565703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4384-2773-5 010 $a1-4416-2407-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781438427737 035 $a(CKB)1000000000806070 035 $a(OCoLC)456071084 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10588690 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000102293 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12033847 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102293 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10049858 035 $a(PQKB)11588612 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3408142 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3408142 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10588690 035 $a(DE-B1597)683750 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781438427737 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000806070 100 $a20081126d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe American optic $epsychoanalysis, critical race theory, and Richard Wright /$fMikko Tuhkanen 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (259 p.) 225 0 $aSUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-4384-2763-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA (b)igger's place : the 'racial' subject in the white symbolic order -- The grimace of the real : of paranoid knowledge and Black(face) magic -- Unforeseeable tragedies : symbolic change in Wright, Fanon, and Lacan -- The optical trade : through southern spectacles -- Avian alienation : writing and flying in Wright and Lacan. 330 $aThe American Optic charts new territory in the relationship of psychoanalysis to critical race studies. Focusing on the work of Richard Wright and Jacques Lacan, it explore the political and ethical implications of psychoanalysis for African American and other diasporic African cultural texts. Mikko Tuhkanen develops a theory of "racialization" that recasts the genealogy of the Western concept of racial difference as outlined by critical race theory, through the theory of the real, which Lacan developed in his later work. By engaging a wide array of resources?including the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and Frantz Fanon, as well as nineteenth-century slave narratives and studies of blackface minstrelsy?Tuhkanen not only illuminates the unexpectedly rich connections between Lacanian psychoanalysis and black literary and cultural studies, but also demonstrates the ways in which the artistic and political traditions of the African diaspora allow us to reinvent the Lacanian ethics of becoming. 606 $aRacism$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aRace awareness$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aPsychoanalysis$zUnited States 615 0$aRacism$xHistory. 615 0$aRace awareness$xHistory. 615 0$aPsychoanalysis 676 $a308.800973 700 $aTuhkanen$b Mikko$f1967-$01645218 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812565703321 996 $aThe American optic$93991549 997 $aUNINA