Risking difference: identification, race, and community in contemporary fiction and feminism

Part I. Totalizing identifications

the politics of envy in Academic feminist communities and in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride

I want you to be me: parent-child identification in D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow and Carolyn Kay Steedman's Landscape for a Good Woman

Identification with the Trauma of Others: Slavery, Collective Trauma, and the difficulties of representatoon of Toni Morrison 's Beloved. Part II Structures of identtification in the Visual Field

Race and idealization in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby and in White Feminist Cross-Race Fantasies

Luring the gaze: desire and interpellation in Sandra Cisneros's "Woman hollering Creek, ", Anne Tyler's Saint Maybe, Angela Carter's The magic Toyshop, and Margaret Drabble's Jerusalem the Golden

Disidentification and border negotiations of Gender in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creeik

Part III Heteropathic identifications

Toward Cross-Race Dialogue: Cherrie Moraga, Gloria An zaldua, and the psychoanalytic politics of community.