In this Book
- Risking Difference: Identification, Race, and Community in Contemporary Fiction and Feminism
- Book
- 2004
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory
summary
Risking 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.
Table of Contents
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- Table of Contents
- pp. vii-viii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction: I Want to Be You
- pp. 1-18
- Part 1 Totalizing Identifications
- 2 I Want You To Be Me
- pp. 42-65
- Part 2 Structures of Identification in the Visual Field
- 5 Luring the Gaze
- pp. 119-144
- 7 Toward Cross-Race Dialogue
- pp. 170-191
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791484883
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
62348626
Pages
294
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No