The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief

Neuausgabe 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-513403-2
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: Race and American Culture

In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne A. Cheng argues that we have to understand racial grief not only as the result of racism but also as a foundation for racial identity. She proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholy act - a social category that is imaginatively supported through a dynamic of loss and compensation, by which the racial other is at once rejected and retained, denigrated and idealized. Drawing upon history,
literature and theatre - the book ranges from Rodgers and Hammerstein to David Henry Whang, Brown v. Board of Education to Anne Deveare Smith, Ralph Ellison to Maxine Hong Kingston - Cheng demonstrates that racial melancholia permeates our fantasies of citizenship, assimilation, and social health. A
provocative look at a timely cultural dilemma, this study is essential reading for anyone interested in race studies, critical theory, or psychoanalysis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cheng, Anne Anlin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volks- und Völkerkundliche Museen

Über Autor(innen)

Anne Anlin Cheng is Assistant Professor of English and American Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.