The melancholy of race

Summary: 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 melancholicact--a social category that is imaginatively supported through adynamic of loss and compensation, by which the racial other is at oncerejected and retained. Using psychoanalytic theories on mourning andmelanc.

Record details

ISBN: 9781602564107
ISBN: 1602564108
ISBN: 9780195350807
ISBN: 0195350804
ISBN: 6610473102
ISBN: 9786610473106
ISBN: 9781423738633
ISBN: 1423738632
ISBN: 0195134036
ISBN: 9780195134032
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 271 pages) : illustrations.
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Publisher: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-249) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Beauty and Ideal Citizenship: Inventing Asian America in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song (1961) -- A Fable of Exquisite Corpses: Maxine Hong Kingston, Assimilation, and the Hypochondriacal Response -- Fantasy's Repulsion and Investment: David Henry Hwang and Ralph Ellison -- History in/against the Fragment: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha -- Difficult Loves: Anna Deavere Smith and the Politics of Grief.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.