TY - GEN T1 - The melancholy of race T2 - Race and American culture. A1 - Cheng, Anne Anlin LA - English PP - Oxford England ; New York PB - Oxford University Press YR - 2001 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn560323536 AB - In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne Anlin Cheng arguesthat we have to understand racial grief not only as the result ofracism but also as a foundation for racial identity. The Melancholy of Raceproposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholicact--a social category that is imaginatively supported through adynamic of loss and compensation, by which the racial other is at oncerejected and retained. Using psychoanalytic theories on mourning andmelanc. OP - 271 CN - E184.A1 C4455 2001eb SN - 9780195134032 SN - 0195134036 SN - 1423738632 SN - 9781423738633 SN - 9786610473106 SN - 6610473102 SN - 0195350804 SN - 9780195350807 SN - 1602564108 SN - 9781602564107 SN - 0195151623 SN - 9780195151626 KW - National characteristics, American. KW - Melancholy in literature. KW - Melancholy in art. KW - Minorities in literature. KW - Minorities in art. KW - American literature : Asian American authors : History and criticism. KW - American literature : African American authors : History and criticism. KW - Minorities : United States : Intellectual life. KW - Asian American arts : Psychological aspects. KW - African American arts : Psychological aspects. KW - United States : Race relations : Psychological aspects. KW - Mélancolie dans la littérature. KW - Mélancolie dans l'art. KW - Minorités dans l'art. KW - Littérature américaine : Auteurs américains d'origine asiatique : Histoire et critique. KW - Arts noirs américains : Aspect psychologique. KW - États-Unis : Relations raciales : Aspect psychologique. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : Cultural. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Discrimination & Race Relations. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Minority Studies. KW - American literature : African American authors KW - American literature : Asian American authors KW - Melancholy in art KW - Melancholy in literature KW - Minorities in art KW - Minorities in literature KW - Minorities : Intellectual life KW - National characteristics, American KW - Race relations : Psychological aspects KW - United States KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. ER -