Striking features : psychoanalysis and racial passing narratives / Donavan L. Ramon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramon, Donavan L., author.

Series:

Voices of the African diaspora

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Passing (Identity)--United States.

Passing (Identity).

Black people--Race identity--United States.

Black people.

Race awareness--United States.

Race awareness.

Ethnopsychology--United States.

Ethnopsychology.

Physical Description:

x, 264 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Psychoanalysis and racial passing narratives

Place of Publication:

Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, [2024]

Summary:

This interdisciplinary work threads psychoanalysis and other theoretical perspectives throughout close readings of twentieth and twenty-first century racial passing narratives. It concludes with a meditation on today's ineffectual language of race.

Contents:

"Bold hypotheses": an introduction to psychoanalysis and race

Race-learning and the trauma of passing

Passing and Freud's death drive

Passing and life writing

He "colored himself just as he chose": a case study of Coleman Silk

Conclusion: the passing hustle and the failed language of race.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-247) and index.

ISBN:

9780881469301

0881469300

OCLC:

1423778916