The melancholy of race / Anne Anlin Cheng.
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TextSeries: Race and American culturePublication details: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 271 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- 9780195134032
- 0195134036
- 1423738632
- 9781423738633
- 9786610473106
- 6610473102
- 0195350804
- 9780195350807
- 1602564108
- 9781602564107
- National characteristics, American
- Melancholy in literature
- Melancholy in art
- Minorities in literature
- Minorities in art
- American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism
- American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
- Minorities -- United States -- Intellectual life
- Asian American arts -- Psychological aspects
- African American arts -- Psychological aspects
- United States -- Race relations -- Psychological aspects
- Mélancolie dans la littérature
- Mélancolie dans l'art
- Minorités dans l'art
- Littérature américaine -- Auteurs américains d'origine asiatique -- Histoire et critique
- Arts noirs américains -- Aspect psychologique
- États-Unis -- Relations raciales -- Aspect psychologique
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
- American literature -- African American authors
- American literature -- Asian American authors
- Melancholy in art
- Melancholy in literature
- Minorities in art
- Minorities in literature
- Minorities -- Intellectual life
- National characteristics, American
- Race relations -- Psychological aspects
- United States
- 305.8/00973 21
- E184.A1 C4455 2001eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-249) and index.
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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.
English.
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