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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.

"Simultaneously bold and delicate, Jean Wyatt's Risking Difference fuses psychoanalytic theory, feminism, narrative theory, anti-racist discourse, and concerns within multicultural politics to propose an original praxis for feminist intersubjectivity ... This is a vigorous, careful, lucid, and thoroughly readable contribution to feminist ethics and politics."

ISBN: 9780791461280
ISBN-10: 0791461289
Series: 000410940
Audience: Professional
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 320
Published: 17th June 2004
Dimensions (cm): 23.0 x 15.1  x 1.6
Weight (kg): 0.39