1st Edition
Performance Anxieties Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race
By Ann Pellegrini
Copyright 1997
200 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
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Performance Anxieties looks at the on-going debates over the value of psychoanalysis for feminist theory and politics--specifically concerning the social and psychical meanings of racialization. Beginning with an historicized return to Freud and the meaning of Jewishness in Freud's day, Ann Pellegrini indicates how "race" and racialization are not incidental features of psychoanalysis or of... Read more
Introduction The Seen Of Difference; Part 1 Jewishness; Chapter 1 Jewishness As Gender; Chapter 2 Entr' Acte; Chapter 3 You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real); Part 2 Blackness; Chapter 4 Citing Identity, Sighting Identification; Chapter 5 Through The Looking Glass; Chapter 6 Between Men; Part 3 Womanliness; Chapter 7 Femmes Futiles; Chapter 8 The Included Middle; Chapter 9 Oedipus Reps;
Biography
Ann Pellegrini teaches in the Department of Women's Studies at Barnard College.
"Performance Anxieties offers deft readings of key texts in the psychoanalytic literature in ways that are both clarifying and compelling, while also pulling the texts consistently toward the social and historical by applying their insights to representation." -- Signs
