Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans
ISBN-13:
9781478001256
ISBN-10:
1478001259
Author:
David L. Eng, Shinhee Han
Publication date:
2019
Publisher:
Duke University Press Books
Format:
Hardcover
232 pages
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ISBN-13:
9781478001256
ISBN-10:
1478001259
Author:
David L. Eng, Shinhee Han
Publication date:
2019
Publisher:
Duke University Press Books
Format:
Hardcover
232 pages
Summary
Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans (ISBN-13: 9781478001256 and ISBN-10: 1478001259), written by authors
David L. Eng, Shinhee Han, was published by Duke University Press Books in 2019.
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In Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation critic David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han draw on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation X to Generation Y. Combining critical race theory with several strands of psychoanalytic thought, they develop the concepts of racial melancholia and racial dissociation to investigate changing processes of loss associated with immigration, displacement, diaspora, and assimilation. These case studies of first- and second-generation Asian Americans deal with a range of difficulties, from depression, suicide, and the politics of coming out to broader issues of the model minority stereotype, transnational adoption, parachute children, colorblind discourses in the United States, and the rise of Asia under globalization. Throughout, Eng and Han link psychoanalysis to larger structural and historical phenomena, illuminating how the study of psychic processes of individuals can inform investigations of race, sexuality, and immigration while creating a more sustained conversation about the social lives of Asian Americans and Asians in the diaspora.
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