The Melancholy of Race(English, Hardcover, Cheng Anne Anlin)

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The Melancholy of Race(English, Hardcover, Cheng Anne Anlin) is written by Cheng Anne Anlin and published by Oxford University Press Inc. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0195134036 (ISBN 10) and 9780195134032 (ISBN 13).

In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne A. Cheng argues that we have to understand racial grief not only as the result of racism but also as a foundation for racial identity. She proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholy act - a social category that is imaginatively supported through a dynamic of loss and compensation, by which the racial other is at once rejected and retained, denigrated and idealized. Drawing upon history, literature and theatre - the book ranges from Rodgers and Hammerstein to David Henry Whang, Brown v. Board of Education to Anne Deveare Smith, Ralph Ellison to Maxine Hong Kingston - Cheng demonstrates that racial melancholia permeates our fantasies of citizenship, assimilation, and social health. A provocative look at a timely cultural dilemma, this study is essential reading for anyone interested in race studies, critical theory, or psychoanalysis.