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

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (x, 286 pages) Series SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture. SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory. Contents Part I. Totalizing identifications -- the politics of envy in Academic feminist communities and in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride -- I want you to be me: parent-child identification in D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow and Carolyn Kay Steedman's Landscape for a Good Woman -- Identification with the Trauma of Others: Slavery, Collective Trauma, and the difficulties of representatoon of Toni Morrison 's Beloved. Part II Structures of identtification in the Visual Field -- Race and idealization in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby and in White Feminist Cross-Race Fantasies -- Luring the gaze: desire and interpellation in Sandra Cisneros's "Woman hollering Creek, ", Anne Tyler's Saint Maybe, Angela Carter's The magic Toyshop, and Margaret Drabble's Jerusalem the Golden -- Disidentification and border negotiations of Gender in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creeik -- Part III Heteropathic identifications -- Toward Cross-Race Dialogue: Cherrie Moraga, Gloria An zaldua, and the psychoanalytic politics of community Summary "Risking Differences 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."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-273) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject 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. American fiction -- History and criticism Feminism and literature -- United States -- 20th century -- History and criticism American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature -- Women authors American fiction African American women -- Intellectual life American fiction -- African American authors American fiction -- Women authors Communities in literature Feminism and literature Group identity in literature Identification (Psychology) in literature Multiculturalism in literature Psychoanalysis and culture Psychoanalysis and feminism Race in literature Women and literature Ethnische Beziehungen Frauenliteratur Letterkunde. Amerikaans. Vrouwelijke auteurs. Feminisme. Identificatie (psychologie) Sekseverschillen. Multiculturele samenlevingen. United States USA Schwärze Genre/Form Electronic books History Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 142373968X 9781423739685 0791461289 9780791461280 0791461270 9780791461273 0791484882 9780791484883

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