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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…
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…
"Unlike any other book of its kind, this volume celebrates published works from a broad range of American ethnic groups not often featured in the typical canon of literature." --Amazon.
At the beginning of the twenty-first century the world may be in a "transnational moment." Indeed, we are increasingly aware of the ways in which local and national narratives, in literature and elsewhere, cannot be conceived apart from a radically new sense of shared human hist…
Probing essays that examine critical issues surrounding the United States's ever-expanding international cultural identity in the postcolonial era Download Plain Text version At the beginning of the twenty-first century, we may be in a "transnational" moment, increasingly aware …
Focusing on the representations of distant lands and exotic bodies that filled the nightclubs of Jazz Age New York, Fiona I.B. Ngô shows how U.S. ambitions abroad shaped racial, gendered, and sexual formations at home.
Focusing on the representations of distant lands and exotic bodies that filled the nightclubs of Jazz Age New York, Fiona I.B. Ngô shows how U.S. ambitions abroad shaped racial, gendered, and sexual formations at home.