| Author | : Anne Anlin Cheng |
| File Size | : 53,9 Mb |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 02 May 2024 |
| ISBN | : 9780195151626 |
| Pages | : 286 pages |
The Melancholy of Race by Anne Anlin Cheng Book PDF Summary
Cheng proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholic act--a social category that is imaginatively supported through a dynamic of loss and compensation, by which the racial other is at once rejected and retained. Using psychoanalytic theories on mourning and melancholia as inroads into her subject, Cheng offers a closely observed and carefully reasoned account of the minority experience as expressed in works of art by, and about, Asian-Americans and African-Americans. She argues that the racial minority and dominant American culture both suffer from racial melancholia and that this insight is crucial to a productive reimagining of progressive politics.