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Risking difference

Jean Wyatt

2004286 pagesabout 4–7 hours
2004
first published
  • 2004State University of New York Press · ENGISBN 9781423739685
  • 2004State University of New York Press · 286 pages · ENGISBN 9780791461280

"Risking Differences 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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