Trauma and Race : A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity /

African American identity is racialized. And this racialized identity has animated and shaped political resistance to racism. Hidden, though, are the psychological implications of rooting identity in race, especially because American history is inseparable from the trauma of slavery. In Trauma and R...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: George, Sheldon, 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Lacan, Jacques, > 1901-1981.
Lacan, Jacques, > 1901-1981 > Philosophy.
Slavery > Psychological aspects.
Slavery in literature.
Racism > Psychological aspects.
Racism in literature.
Psychic trauma > Social aspects.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Philosophy.
American literature > African American authors.
African Americans > Race identity.
African Americans in literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Traumatisme psychique dans la litterature.
Racisme dans la litterature.
Esclavage dans la litterature.
Noirs americains dans la litterature.
Traumatisme psychique > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Racisme > États-Unis > Aspect psychologique.
Esclavage > États-Unis > Aspect psychologique.
Noirs americains > Identite ethnique.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Psychic trauma > Social aspects > United States.
Racism > United States > Psychological aspects.
Slavery > United States > Psychological aspects.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Race today, or Alterity and jouissance
  • Race and slavery : theorizing agencies beyond the symbolic
  • Conserving race, conserving trauma : the legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Approaching the thing of slavery : Toni Morrison's Beloved
  • The Oedipal complex and the mythic structure of race : Ellison's Juneteenth and Invisible man
  • Conclusion: Beyond race, or The exaltation of personality.

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