商品簡介
The foundation of psychoanalysis lies in the theory of the construction of sexual identity, but Bergner (English, West Virginia U.) suggests that such an approach can be useful understanding racial identity as well if one can move beyond the oedipal scenario and infant development into the sociopolitical sphere of racialization. Through readings of double consciousness in Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Nella Larsen's Quicksand, Toni Morrison's Beloved, and William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Bergner "asks psychoanalysis to account for race as a constitutive factor of identity; to explore intersections of race, gender, and sexuality; to analyze how American ideologies of race and citizenship, in conjunction with a racial symbolic, work to produce racialized subjects; and to argue for the relevance of the unconscious to the politics of race." Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Gwen Bergner is associate professor of English at West Virginia University. She is a contributor to The Psychoanalysis of Race and Frantz Fanon: Critical Perspectives, and served as coeditor of Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture from 1991 to 1993.
