Risking difference
Subtitle: identification, race, and community in contemporary fiction and feminism
By: Jean Wyatt.
Series: SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture; SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: 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; Community in literature; Race in literature
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-273) and index.