The American Optic charts new territory in the relationship of
psychoanalysis to critical race studies by exploring the political
and ethical implications of Lacanian psychoanalysis for African
American and other diasporic African cultural production. Focusing
on texts by Richard Wright and Jacques Lacan, Mikko Tuhkanen
develops a theory of "racialization" that recasts the genealogy of
the Western concept of racial difference in critical race theory in
terms of the Lacanian argument about the role of the scopic drive
in constituting the human subject. By engaging a wide array of
resources--including the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, Booker T.
Washington, Frantz Fanon, narratives of nineteenth-century slaves,
and studies of blackface minstrelsy--Tuhkanen not only illuminates
unexpectedly rich connections between Lacanian psychoanalysis and
black literary and cultural studies, but also demonstrates the ways
in which the artistic and political traditions of the African
diaspora allow us to rethink and even reinvent the Lacanian ethics
of becoming.
General
Imprint: |
State University of New York Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
SUNY series in Psychoanalysis and Culture |
Release date: |
September 2009 |
First published: |
September 2009 |
Authors: |
Mikko Tuhkanen
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
255 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4384-2763-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
Ethnic studies >
Black studies
|
LSN: |
1-4384-2763-8 |
Barcode: |
9781438427638 |
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