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Desiring whiteness : a Lacanian analysis of race / Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seshadri, Kalpana.
- Series:
- Opening out.
- Feminism for today
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.
- Lacan, Jacques.
- Psychoanalysis and racism.
- Race--Psychological aspects.
- Race.
- Race awareness.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (193 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A compelling new interpretation of how we understand race, using Lacanian analysis to explore the visual discrimation we make between races, and including close readings of literary and film texts.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Key to Lacan's works; Introduction: on looking; Deciphering Whiteness; The object of Whiteness; Whiteness and the elephant joke; Looking alike: or the ethics of Suture; What's in a name? Love and knowledge beyond identity in ~Recitatif~; Discolorations; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [168]-175) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-73860-9
- 1-280-10919-X
- 0-203-26089-9
- 0-203-45478-2
- 1-134-73861-7
- 9780203454787
- OCLC:
- 123353736
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