Risking Difference by Jean Wyatt

Risking Difference by Jean Wyatt

Risking Difference revisions the dynamics of multicultural feminist community by exploring the ways that identification creates misrecognitions and misunderstandings between individuals and within communities. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, Jean Wyatt argues not only that individual psychic processes of identification influence social dynamics, but also that social discourses of race, class, and culture shape individual identifications. In addition to examining fictional narratives by Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Sandra Cisneros, Toni Morrison, and others, Wyatt also looks at nonfictional accounts of cross-race relations by white feminists and feminists of color.

Jean Wyatt is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Occidental College and the author of Reconstructing Desire: The Role of the Unconscious in Women's Reading and Writing.

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ISBN 13	9780791461280
ISBN 10	0791461289
Title	Risking Difference
Author	Jean Wyatt
Series	Suny Series In Feminist Criticism And Theory
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	State University of New York Press
Year published	2004-06-17
Number of pages	294
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