Risking difference

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"Risking Differences 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."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: African American authors,  African American women,  American fiction,  Community in literature,  Feminism and literature,  Group identity in literature,  History,  History and criticism,  Identification (Psychology) in literature,  Intellectual life,  Multiculturalism in literature,  Psychoanalysis and culture,  Psychoanalysis and feminism,  Race in literature,  Women and literature,  Women authors,  Vrouwelijke auteurs,  Sekseverschillen,  Communauté dans la littérature,  Amerikaans,  Roman américain,  Vie intellectuelle,  Feminisme,  Psychanalyse et féminisme,  Histoire,  Ethnopsychanalyse,  Ethnische Beziehungen,  Identification (Psychologie) dans la littérature,  Littérature féministe,  Auteurs noirs américains,  Identificatie (psychologie),  Femmes et littérature,  Multiculturalisme dans la littérature,  Race dans la littérature,  Frauenliteratur,  Identité collective dans la littérature,  Letterkunde,  Écrits de femmes américains,  Histoire et critique,  Multiculturele samenlevingen,  Noires américaines,  Communities in literature,  American fiction, history and criticism,  Identitification (Psychology) in literature

Places: United States

Times: 20th century