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702544
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b524733
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Wyatt, Jean
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| Title & Author
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Risking difference : : identification, race, and community in contemporary fiction and feminism /\ Jean Wyatt
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| Publication Statement
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Albany :: State University of New York Press,, [2004]
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, ©2004
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| Series Statement
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SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory
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SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture
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x, 286 pages ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0791461270
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: 0791461289
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: 9780791461273
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: 9780791461280
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-273) and index
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| Contents
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Part I. Totalizing identifications -- the politics of envy in Academic feminist communities and in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride -- I want you to be me: parent-child identification in D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow and Carolyn Kay Steedman's Landscape for a Good Woman -- Identification with the Trauma of Others: Slavery, Collective Trauma, and the difficulties of representatoon of Toni Morrison 's Beloved. Part II Structures of identtification in the Visual Field -- Race and idealization in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby and in White Feminist Cross-Race Fantasies -- 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 -- Disidentification and border negotiations of Gender in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creeik -- Part III Heteropathic identifications -- Toward Cross-Race Dialogue: Cherrie Moraga, Gloria An zaldua, and the psychoanalytic politics of community
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"Risking Differences 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."--Jacket
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African American women-- Intellectual life
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American fiction-- African American authors-- History and criticism
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American fiction-- Women authors-- History and criticism
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Communities in literature
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Feminism and literature-- United States-- History-- 20th century
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Group identity in literature
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Identification (Psychology) in literature
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Multiculturalism in literature
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Psychoanalysis and culture-- United States
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Psychoanalysis and feminism-- United States
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Race in literature
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Women and literature-- United States-- History-- 20th century
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.5099287
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PS374.F45W93 2004
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