Writing prejudices
Subtitle: the psychoanalysis and pedagogy of discrimination from Shakespeare to Toni Morrison
By: Robert Samuels.
Series: SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Morrison, Toni -- Criticism and interpretation; English literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Psychoanalysis and literature -- England; Psychoanalysis and literature -- United States; Homophobia in literature; Racism in literature; Prejudices in literature; Discrimination in literature
Description: "Writing Prejudices addresses critical attempts to undermine prejudice through education in general, and literary studies in particular. Robert Samuels argues that these attempts often fail because they do not take into account the different forms of prejudice, the role played by homophobia in racism and sexism, the structure of what Lacan calls symbolic castration, and the unconscious foundations of cultural formations.

Addressing these deficiencies, Samuels uses psychoanalytic theory to examine the manifestations of racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, and homophobia in the works of Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Joseph Conard, and Toni Morrison, showing how these distinct modes of oppression feed off of each other and the diverse ways that cultural critics can work to undermine them."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-189) and index.