The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and...

The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief (Race and American Culture)

Anne Anlin Cheng
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In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne Anlin Cheng argues that we have to understand racial grief not only as the result of racism but also as a foundation for racial identity. The Melancholy of Race proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholic act--a social category that is imaginatively supported through a dynamic of loss & compensation, by which the racial other is at once rejected & retained. 

Using psychoanalytic theories on mourning & melancholia as inroads into her subject, Cheng offers a closely observed & carefully reasoned account of the minority experience as expressed in works of art by, & about, Asian-Americans & African-Americans. She argues that the racial minority & dominant American culture both suffer from racial melancholia & that this insight is crucial to a productive reimagining of progressive politics. 

Her discussion ranges from "Flower Drum Song" to "M. Butterfly," Brown v. Board of Education to Anna Deavere Smith's "Twilight," & Invisible Man to The Woman Warrior, in the process demonstrating that racial melancholia permeates our fantasies of citizenship, assimilation, & social health. Her investigations reveal the common interests that social, legal, & literary histories of race have always shared with psychoanalysis, & situates Asian-American & African-American identities in relation to one another within the larger process of American racialization. 

A provocative look at a timely subject, this study is essential reading for anyone interested in race studies, critical theory, or psychoanalysis.

Jahr:
2000
Verlag:
Oxford University Press
Sprache:
english
Seiten:
288
ISBN 10:
1423738632
ISBN 13:
9781423738633
Datei:
PDF, 16.23 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2000
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