The Melancholy of Race
Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief
Paperback Engels 2002 9780195151626Samenvatting
The Melancholy of Race argues that we have to understand racial grief not only as the result of racism but also as a foundation for racial identity. Anne A. Cheng proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholy act - a social category that is imaginatively supported through a dynamic loss and compensation, by which the racial other is at once rejected and retained, denigrated and idealized. Drawing upon history, literature and theatre - the book ranges from Rodgers and Hammerstein to David Henry Whang, Brown v. Board of Education to Anna Deveare Smith, Ralph Ellison to Maxine Hong Kingston - Cheng demonstrates that racial melancholia permeates our fantasies of citizenship, assimilation and social health. A provocative look at a timely cultural dilemma, this study is essential reading for anyone interested in race studies, critical theory or psychoanalysis.
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