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Risking Difference : Identification, Race, and Community in Contemporary Fiction and Feminism.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory SeriesPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2004Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (297 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780791484883
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Risking DifferenceDDC classification:
  • 813/.5099287
LOC classification:
  • PS374.F45 -- W93 2004eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Risking Difference -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: I Want to Be You -- Part I: Totalizing Identifications -- 1. The Politics of Envy in Academic Feminist Communities and in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride -- 2. I Want You To Be Me: Parent-Child Identi.cation in D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow and Carolyn Kay Steedman's Landscape for a Good Woman -- 3. Identification with the Trauma of Others: Slavery, Collective Trauma, and the Difficulties of Representation in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Part II: Structures of Identi.cation in the Visual Field -- 4. Race and Idealization in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby and in White Feminist Cross-Race Fantasies -- 5. Luring the Gaze: Desire and Interpellation in Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek," Anne Tyler's Saint Maybe, Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop, and Margaret Drabble's Jerusalem the Golden -- 6. Disidenti.cation and Border Negotiations of Gender in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek -- Part III: Heteropathic Identi.cations -- 7. Toward Cross-Race Dialogue: Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa, and the Psychoanalytic Politics of Community -- Appendix. The Challenges of Infant Research and Neurobiology to Traditional Models of Primary Identification -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CHAPTER 7 -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Looks at the dynamics of identification, envy, and idealization in fictional narratives by Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Sandra Cisneros, Toni Morrison, and others, as well as in nonfictional accounts of cross-race relations by white feminists and feminists of color.
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Intro -- Risking Difference -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: I Want to Be You -- Part I: Totalizing Identifications -- 1. The Politics of Envy in Academic Feminist Communities and in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride -- 2. I Want You To Be Me: Parent-Child Identi.cation in D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow and Carolyn Kay Steedman's Landscape for a Good Woman -- 3. Identification with the Trauma of Others: Slavery, Collective Trauma, and the Difficulties of Representation in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Part II: Structures of Identi.cation in the Visual Field -- 4. Race and Idealization in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby and in White Feminist Cross-Race Fantasies -- 5. Luring the Gaze: Desire and Interpellation in Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek," Anne Tyler's Saint Maybe, Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop, and Margaret Drabble's Jerusalem the Golden -- 6. Disidenti.cation and Border Negotiations of Gender in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek -- Part III: Heteropathic Identi.cations -- 7. Toward Cross-Race Dialogue: Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa, and the Psychoanalytic Politics of Community -- Appendix. The Challenges of Infant Research and Neurobiology to Traditional Models of Primary Identification -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CHAPTER 7 -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Looks at the dynamics of identification, envy, and idealization in fictional narratives by Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Sandra Cisneros, Toni Morrison, and others, as well as in nonfictional accounts of cross-race relations by white feminists and feminists of color.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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