Trauma and race [electronic resource] :a Lacanian study of African American racial identity / Sheldon George.
By: George, Sheldon.
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BookPublisher: Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, 2016. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781602587366.Subject(s): American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism | Psychic trauma in literature | Racism in literature | Slavery in literature | African Americans in literature | Psychic trauma -- Social aspects -- United States | Racism -- United States -- Psychological aspects | Slavery -- United States -- Psychological aspects | African Americans -- Race identity | Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981 -- PhilosophyGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 305.896/073 Online resources: Full text available: Includes bibliographical references 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.
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