Writing Prejudices

Robert Samuels

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Writing Prejudices addresses critical attempts to undermine prejudice through education in general, and literary studies in particular. Robert Samuels argues that these attempts often fail because they do not take into account the different forms of prejudice, the role played by homophobia in racism and sexism, the structure of what Lacan calls symbolic castration, and the unconscious foundations of cultural formations. Addressing these deficiencies, Samuels uses psychoanalytic theory to examine the manifestations of racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, and homophobia in the works of Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Joseph Conrad, and Toni Morrison, showing how these distinct modes of oppression feed off of each other and the diverse ways that cultural critics can work to undermine them.
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

PART ONE: Early Modern Prejudice

2. Racism, Sexism, and Homophobia in Othello

3. The Cycle of Prejudice in Shakespeare's Miscegenating Sonnets

4. The Tempest: Colonial Desire, Homophobic Racism, and the Ideological Structures of Prejudice

PART TWO: Colonialism, Slavery, and Racist Homophobia

5. Frankenstein's Homosocial Colonial Desire

6. The Heart of Darkness and Homophobic Colonial Desire

PART THREE: Postmodern Prejudices

7. Internalized Racism and the Structures of Prejudice in The Bluest Eye

8. Beloved: Psychoanalytic Cultural Criticism and the National Unconscious

9. Conclusion

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 mars 2001
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791491072
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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WRITING PREJUDICES

SUNY series in Psychoanalysis and Culture Edited by Henry Sussman

Writing Prejudices

The Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy of Discrimination from Shakespeare to Toni Morrison

Robert Samuels

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Samuels, Robert, 1961– Writing prejudices : the psychoanalysis and pedagogy of discrimination from Shakespeare to Toni Morrison / Robert Samuels. p. cm.—(SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-4875-4 (alk. paper)—ISBN 0-7914-4876-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. English literature—History and criticism—Theory, etc. 2. Morrison, Toni— Criticism and interpretation. 3. Psychoanalysis and literature—England. 4. Psychoanalysis and literature—United States. 5. Homophobia in literature. 6. Racism in literature. 7. Prejudices in literature. 8. Discrimination in literature. I. Title. II. Series. PR408.P8 S26 2001 820.9'353—dc21 00-039479

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Acknowledgments Introduction

CONTENTS

PART ONE Early Modern Prejudice Racism, Sexism, and Homophobia inOthello The Cycle of Prejudice in Shakespeare’s MiscegenatingSonnets The Tempest: Colonial Desire, Homophobic Racism, and the Ideological Structures of Prejudice

PART TWO Colonialism, Slavery, and Racist Homophobia Frankenstein’s Homosocial Colonial Desire TheHeart of Darknessand Homophobic Colonial Desire

PART THREE Postmodern Prejudices Internalized Racism and the Structures of Prejudice in The Bluest Eye Beloved: Psychoanalytic Cultural Criticism and the National Unconscious Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

would like to thank Mark Bracher for all of his help on this project. I am I ˇ also indebted to Marshall Alcorn, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Slavoj Zizˇek, James Peltz, Henry Sussman, Ronald Corthell, Jean Wyatt, Marcia Ian, and Steve Brown. This book would not have been possible without the support of my family and friends.

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