Melancholy of Race Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief

Name: Melancholy of Race Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief
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ISBN: 9780195151626

ISBN-10: 0195151623

ISBN-13: 9780195151626

Edition: 2001

Authors: Anne Anlin Cheng

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In this groundbreaking, 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 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 melancholia as inroads into her subject, Cheng offers a closely observed and carefully reasoned account of the minority experience as expressed in works of art by, and about, Asian-Americans and…

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List price: $67.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/20/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.10" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English



Preface



The Melancholy of Race



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


Notes


Works Cited


Acknowledgments


Index