Desiring Whiteness - A Lacanian Analysis of Race

List of contents

Acknowledgments, Key to Lacan’s works, Introduction: on looking, 1 Deciphering Whiteness, 2 The object of Whiteness, 3 Whiteness and the elephant joke, 4 Looking alike: or the ethics of Suture, 5 What’s in a name? Love and knowledge beyond identity in “Recitatif”, 6 Discolorations, Notes, Bibliography, Index

About the author

Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks is Assistant Professor of English at Boston College, MA, USA

Summary

A compelling new interpretation of how we understand race, using Lacanian analysis to explore the visual discrimination we make between races, and including close readings of literary and film texts.

Product details

• Authors: Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks, Seshadri-Crooks Kalpana
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.05.2000
• EAN: 9780415192552
• ISBN: 978-0-415-19255-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Weight: 360 g
• Series: Opening Out: Feminism for Today
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social discrimination and social justice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General