Risking Difference: Identification, Race, and Community in Contemporary Fiction and Feminism

Risking Difference 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.

Author: Jean Wyatt
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 06/17/2004
Pages: 286
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 9.04h x 5.96w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780791461280

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2004 pg. 665

About the Author
Jean Wyatt is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Occidental College and the author of Reconstructing Desire: The Role of the Unconscious in Women's Reading and Writing.

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