The melancholy of race : psychoanalysis, assimilation and hidden grief / Anne Anlin Cheng.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cheng, Anne Anlin, author.

Series:

Race and American culture.

Oxford scholarship online.

Race and American culture

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity.

Race.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 271 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Argueing that racial grief is not only the result of racism but also a foundation for racial identity, this study proposes that racial identification is itself a melancholy act - a social category supported by loss and compensation.

Contents:

Contents; ONE: The Melancholy of Race; TWO: Beauty and Ideal Citizenship: Inventing Asian America in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song (1961); THREE: A Fable of Exquisite Corpses: Maxine Hong Kingston, Assimilation, and the Hypochondriacal Response; FOUR: Fantasy's Repulsion and Investment: David Henry Hwang and Ralph Ellison; FIVE: History in/against the Fragment: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha; SIX: Difficult Loves: Anna Deavere Smith and the Politics of Grief; Notes; Works Cited; Acknowledgments; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Bibliography: pages 233-249.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772521-X

0-19-988112-X

1-280-47310-X

1-4237-3863-2

0-19-535080-4

1-60256-410-8

OCLC:

475956826