| #3641430 in Books | Univ Of Minnesota Press | 2005-03-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.60 x5.88l,.72 | File type: PDF | 244 pages | ||About the Author|
Gwen Bergner is associate professor of English at West Virginia University. She is a contributor to The Psychoanalysis of Race and Frantz Fanon: Critical Perspectives, and served as coeditor of Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Wome
In American literature, a traumatic scene of racial and sexual awakening - frequently involving photographs, mirrors, or acts of witnessing - often precipitates a character's "discovery" of racial identity. Similarly, in the annals of psychoanalysis, notions of self and sexual identity often arise from visual trauma such as the mirror stage and primal scene. Noting this parallel between specular births of racial and sexual subjectivity, Gwen Bergner uses a comparati...
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