Risking Difference - Identification, Race, Community in Contemporary Fiction Feminism

Informationen zum Autor Jean Wyatt is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Occidental College and the author of Reconstructing Desire: The Role of the Unconscious in Women's Reading and Writing . Klappentext 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jean Wyatt, Wyatt Jean
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.06.2004
• EAN: 9780791461273
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-6127-3
• No. of pages: 294
• Series: SUNY series in Psychoanalysis and Culture; Suny Feminist Criticism and Th; SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Literature - Classics / Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Feminism & feminist theory, Literary studies: general, Feminism and feminist theory