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The melancholy of race /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford [England] ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
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| Colección: | Race and American culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 271 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-249) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780195134032 0195134036 1423738632 9781423738633 9786610473106 6610473102 0195350804 9780195350807 1602564108 9781602564107 |