Writing prejudices : the psychoanalysis and pedagogy of discrimination from Shakespeare to Toni Morrison / Robert Samuels.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Samuels, Robert, 1961- author.

Series:

SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture

SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture Writing prejudices

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

English literature.

Psychoanalysis and literature--United States.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Psychoanalysis and literature--England.

Racism in literature.

Prejudices in literature.

Homophobia in literature.

Discrimination in literature.

Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019--Criticism and interpretation.

Morrison, Toni.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 196 p. )

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2001]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Writing Prejudices addresses critical attempts to undermine prejudice through education in general, and literary studies in particular. Robert Samuels argues that these attempts often fail because they do not take into account the different forms of prejudice, the role played by homophobia in racism and sexism, the structure of what Lacan calls symbolic castration, and the unconscious foundations of cultural formations. Addressing these deficiencies, Samuels uses psychoanalytic theory to examine the manifestations of racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, and homophobia in the works of Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Joseph Conard, and Toni Morrison, showing how these distinct modes of oppression feed off of each other and the diverse ways that cultural critics can work to undermine them."--Jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Racism, sexism, and homophobia in Othello

The cycle of prejudice in Shakespeare's miscegenating Sonnets

The Tempest: colonial desire, homophobic racism, and the ideological structures of prejudice

Frankenstein's homosocial colonial desire

The heart of darkness and homophobic colonial desire

Internalized racism and the structures of prejudice in The bluest eye

Beloved: psychoanalytic cultural criticism and the national unconscious

Conclusion.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791491072

0791491072