Risking Difference: Identification, Race, and Community in Contemporary Fiction and Feminism

Risking Difference: Identification, Race, and Community in Contemporary Fiction and Feminism

by Jean Wyatt
ISBN-10:
0791461270
ISBN-13:
9780791461273
Pub. Date:
06/17/2004
Publisher:
State University of New York Press
ISBN-10:
0791461270
ISBN-13:
9780791461273
Pub. Date:
06/17/2004
Publisher:
State University of New York Press
Risking Difference: Identification, Race, and Community in Contemporary Fiction and Feminism

Risking Difference: Identification, Race, and Community in Contemporary Fiction and Feminism

by Jean Wyatt

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Overview

Looks at the dynamics of identification, envy, and idealization in fictional narratives by Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Sandra Cisneros, Toni Morrison, and others, as well as in nonfictional accounts of cross-race relations by white feminists and feminists of color.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780791461273
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 06/17/2004
Series: SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory
Pages: 294
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Jean Wyatt is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Occidental College and the author of Reconstructing Desire: The Role of the Unconscious in Women's Reading and Writing.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsix
Introduction: I Want to Be You1
Part I.Totalizing Identifications19
1.The Politics of Envy in Academic Feminist Communities and in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride20
2.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 Woman42
3.Identification with the Trauma of Others: Slavery, Collective Trauma, and the Difficulties of Representation in Toni Morrison's Beloved66
Part II.Structures of Identification in the Visual Field85
4.Race and Idealization in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby and in White Feminist Cross-Race Fantasies86
5.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 Golden119
6.Disidentification and Border Negotiations of Gender in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek145
Part III.Heteropathic Identifications169
7.Toward Cross-Race Dialogue: Cherrie Moraga, Gloria Anzaldua, and the Psychoanalytic Politics of Community170
AppendixThe Challenges of Infant Research and Neurobiology to Traditional Models of Primary Identification192
Notes209
Works Cited251
Index275
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