Melancholy of Race Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief

Name: Melancholy of Race Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief
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ISBN: 9780195134032

ISBN-10: 0195134036

ISBN-13: 9780195134032

Edition: 2001

Authors: Anne Anlin Cheng

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In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne A. Cheng argues that we have to understand racial grief not only as the result of racism but also as a foundation for racial identity. She proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholy 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, denigrated and idealized. Drawing upon history, literature and theatre - the book ranges from Rodgers and Hammerstein to David Henry Whang, Brown v. Board of Education to Anne Deveare Smith, Ralph Ellison to Maxine Hong Kingston - Cheng demonstrates that racial melancholia…

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List price: $195.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/30/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.09" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.298
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