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George, Sheldon.

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Traumatic attachments: A Lacanian analysis of African-American racial identity (Jacques Lacan, Hortense Spillers, Henry Louis Gates, Lucius Outlaw, Houston Baker).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Traumatic attachments: A Lacanian analysis of African-American racial identity (Jacques Lacan, Hortense Spillers, Henry Louis Gates, Lucius Outlaw, Houston Baker)./
Author:	George, Sheldon.
Description:	246 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-05, Section: A, page: 1767.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-05A.
Subject:	Literature, American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3176662
ISBN:	054216194X

Traumatic attachments: A Lacanian analysis of African-American racial identity (Jacques Lacan, Hortense Spillers, Henry Louis Gates, Lucius Outlaw, Houston Baker).
George, Sheldon.

Traumatic attachments: A Lacanian analysis of African-American racial identity (Jacques Lacan, Hortense Spillers, Henry Louis Gates, Lucius Outlaw, Houston Baker). - 246 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-05, Section: A, page: 1767.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston College, 2005.

My dissertation uses race theory and psychoanalysis to investigate African-American racial identity. It produces a Lacanian reading of the attachment many African Americans maintain to the concept of race. African-American scholars such as Hortense Spillers, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Lucius Outlaw, and Houston Baker suggest that there is a political utility in the concept of race. Their work, either implicitly or directly, argues that by embracing the concept of race African Americans have been attempting to resignify this concept, to give race a new meaning that African Americans attempt themselves to determine. I argue, however, that race as a concept carries with it a historical lineage that is both political and psychical. A primary inspiration for this attempt at resignification is the psychic trauma of slavery, which functions for many African Americans as a Lacanian real.

ISBN: 054216194XSubjects--Topical Terms:

1017657
Literature, American.

Traumatic attachments: A Lacanian analysis of African-American racial identity (Jacques Lacan, Hortense Spillers, Henry Louis Gates, Lucius Outlaw, Houston Baker).
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