The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief (repost)
The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief (Race and American Culture) by Anne Anlin Cheng
English | November 30, 2000 | ISBN-10: 0195134036 | 288 pages | PDF | 16.2 MB
English | November 30, 2000 | ISBN-10: 0195134036 | 288 pages | PDF | 16.2 MB
In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne Anlin Cheng argues that we have to understand racial grief not only as the result of racism but also as a foundation for racial identity.
The Melancholy of Race proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholic act–a social category that is imaginatively supported through a dynamic of loss and compensation, by which the racial other is at once rejected and retained. Using psychoanalytic theories on mourning and melancholia as inroads into her subject, Cheng offers a closely observed and carefully reasoned account of the minority experience as expressed in works of art by, and about, Asian-Americans and African-Americans.