Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans by Eng, David L.
Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans by Eng, David L.

Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans

In Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation critic David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han draw on case histories...
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Author: David L. Eng
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Language: English
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Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans by Eng, David L.

Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans

$106.34
Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans by Eng, David L.

Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans

$106.34
Author: David L. Eng
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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.

Author: David L. Eng
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 02/15/2019
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781478001607


Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2019

About the Author
David L. Eng is Richard L. Fisher Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

Shinhee Han is a psychotherapist at The New School and in private practice in New York City.
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