Anne Anlin Cheng is Associate Professor of English and American Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.
"One measure of a healthy and thriving literature is the health of
its critics and theorists. If measured against the work of Anne
Anlin Cheng, Asian-American literature is not only alive and
thriving, but in the midst of a renaissance. Her discussion of race
theory goes far beyond the often muddled binary discussion of
racialized difference, historical chronology, or sociological case
study, offering a new view of race and ethnicity in literature
and
psychoanalysis."--Shawn Wong, University of Washington
"Anne Anlin Cheng has written a provocative and important book
about race as a melancholic construction that imprisons both
dominant and marginal subjects in haunted relations of
identification and loss. Deftly using psychoanalytic theory to
expose the roots of racial identity, Cheng also demonstrates,
through her compelling readings, the inextricability of politics
and desire. Cheng's investigation of the social and psychological
injuries of racism is
imaginative and uncompromising. It is also sufficiently complex to
credit the productive possibilities of melancholic
consciousness."--Helene Moglen, University of California, Santa
Cruz
"Courageous in its refusal to perpetuate the 'ethnic' or racialized
subject's too often reassuring identification with traumatic
wounding, Anne Anlin Cheng's The Melancholy of Race forcefully
reimagines the politics of the subject by focusing on the logic of
fantasy through which the subject is always imagined. That she does
so in a volume that offers her readers the genuine jolt of
intellectual surprise testifies at once to the originality of
her
insights and to our need for the vital and revitalizing
intelligence with which she makes possible new ways of questioning
the terms through which we pose, and thereby reimpose, the
so-called question of
race."--Lee Edelman, Tufts University
"'We are a nation at ease with grievance but not with grief,'
writes Anne Cheng in this probing and complex analysis of the
processes by which we are all socialized into race. Through a
wonderfully chosen series of literary and cultural phenomena, she
captures both the hidden melancholy of those who, in order to
conform to the American dream, learn to discriminate against
themselves, and the even more hidden melancholy of a nation thus
deprived of some of the
most vital energies of its citizens."--Barbara Johnson, Harvard
University
"One measure of a healthy and thriving literature is the health of
its critics and theorists. If measured against the work of Anne
Anlin Cheng, Asian-American literature is not only alive and
thriving, but in the midst of a renaissance. Her discussion of race
theory goes far beyond the often muddled binary discussion of
racialized difference, historical chronology, or sociological case
study, offering a new view of race and ethnicity in literature
and
psychoanalysis."--Shawn Wong, University of Washington
"Anne Anlin Cheng has written a provocative and important book
about race as a melancholic construction that imprisons both
dominant and marginal subjects in haunted relations of
identification and loss. Deftly using psychoanalytic theory to
expose the roots of racial identity, Cheng also demonstrates,
through her compelling readings, the inextricability of politics
and desire. Cheng's investigation of the social and psychological
injuries of racism is
imaginative and uncompromising. It is also sufficiently complex to
credit the productive possibilities of melancholic
consciousness."--Helene Moglen, University of California, Santa
Cruz
"Courageous in its refusal to perpetuate the 'ethnic' or racialized
subject's too often reassuring identification with traumatic
wounding, Anne Anlin Cheng's The Melancholy of Race forcefully
reimagines the politics of the subject by focusing on the logic of
fantasy through which the subject is always imagined. That she does
so in a volume that offers her readers the genuine jolt of
intellectual surprise testifies at once to the originality of
her
insights and to our need for the vital and revitalizing
intelligence with which she makes possible new ways of questioning
the terms through which we pose, and thereby reimpose, the
so-called question of
race."--Lee Edelman, Tufts University
"'We are a nation at ease with grievance but not with grief,'
writes Anne Cheng in this probing and complex analysis of the
processes by which we are all socialized into race. Through a
wonderfully chosen series of literary and cultural phenomena, she
captures both the hidden melancholy of those who, in order to
conform to the American dream, learn to discriminate against
themselves, and the even more hidden melancholy of a nation thus
deprived of some of the
most vital energies of its citizens."--Barbara Johnson, Harvard
University
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