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Author:

George, Sheldon, 1973- author.

Title:

Trauma and race : a Lacanian study of African American racial identity / Sheldon George.

Publisher:

Baylor University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

x, 182 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

African Americans--Race identity.
Slavery--United States--Psychological aspects.
Racism--United States--Psychological aspects.
Psychic trauma--Social aspects--United States.
Lacan, Jacques,--1901-1981--Philosophy.
African Americans in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Racism in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Lacan, Jacques,--1901-1981.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans--Race identity.
American literature--African American authors.
Philosophy.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Psychic trauma--Social aspects.
Racism in literature.
Racism--Psychological aspects.
Slavery in literature.
Slavery--Psychological aspects.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

1602587345
9781602587342

OCLC:

(OCoLC)918591007

LCCN:

2015014113

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)