A provocative look at a timely subject, this study is essential reading for anyone interested in race studies, critical theory, or psychoanalysis."--Résumé de l'éditeur A provocative look at a timely subject, this study is essential reading for anyone interested in race studies…
"In this 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 soc…
Cheng proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholic 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. Using psychoanalytic theories on mourning and …
In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne Anlin Cheng arguesthat we have to understand racial grief not only as the result ofracism but also as a foundation for racial identity. The Melancholy of Raceproposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholica…
This culturally rich encyclopedia contains entries on African American, Asian American, Latino/a, and Native American literary traditions, among others. The book introduces the uniquely American mosaic of multicultural literature by chronicling the achievements of American write…