Risking Difference: Identification, Race, and Community in Contemporary Fiction and Feminism (SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory)

Wyatt, Jean Jean Wyatt,

ISBN 10: 0791461289 / ISBN 13: 9780791461280

Published by State University of New York Press, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Risking Difference: Identification, Race, and Community in Contemporary Fiction and Feminism (SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791461289
• ISBN 13: 9780791461280
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Risking Difference revisions the dynamics of multicultural feminist community by exploring the ways that identification creates misrecognitions and misunderstandings between individuals and within communities. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, Jean Wyatt argues not only that individual psychic processes of identification influence social dynamics, but also that social discourses of race, class, and culture shape individual identifications. In addition to examining fictional narratives by Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Sandra Cisneros, Toni Morrison, and others, Wyatt also looks at nonfictional accounts of cross-race relations by white feminists and feminists of color.

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.