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Trauma and race : a Lacanian study of African American racial identity
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- Creator
- Sheldon George
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, [2016]
- Physical Details
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- x, 182 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1481305654, 9781481305655, 1602587361, 9781602587366, 9781602587342, 1602587345
- OCLC
- ocn935495472, ocn918591007
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-172) and index.
- Introduction: Race today, or Alterity and jouissance -- Race and slavery : theorizing agencies beyond the symbolic -- Conserving race, conserving trauma : the legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois -- Approaching the thing of slavery : Toni Morrison's Beloved -- The Oedipal complex and the mythic structure of race : Ellison's Juneteenth and Invisible man -- Conclusion: Beyond race, or The exaltation of personality
Subjects
- Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981 -- Philosophy.
- African Americans -- Race identity.
- Slavery -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
- Racism -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
- Psychic trauma -- Social aspects -- United States.
- African Americans in literature.
- Slavery in literature.
- Racism in literature.
- Psychic trauma in literature.
- American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.