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

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

Wyatt, Jean

Hardcover

Series: Suny Feminist Criticism and Theory

Literary CriticismWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0791461270
ISBN13: 9780791461273
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jun 17 2004
Pages: 294
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.26
Language: English

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.

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.

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