Risking Difference: Identification, Race, and Community in Contemporary Fiction and Feminism Book

	Introduction : I want to be you	1
Pt. I	Totalizing identifications	19
1	The politics of envy in academic feminist communities and in Margaret Atwood's The robber bride	20
2	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	42
3	Identification with the trauma of others : slavery, collective trauma, and the difficulties of representation in Toni Morrison's Beloved	66
Pt. II	Structures of identification in the visual field	85
4	Race and idealization in Toni Morrison's Tar baby and in white feminist cross-race fantasies	86
5	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	119
6	Disidentification and border negotiations of gender in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek	145
Pt. III	Heteropathic identifications	169
7	Toward cross-race dialogue : Cherrie Moraga, Gloria Anzaldua, and the psychoanalytic politics of community	170
	The challenges of infant research and neurobiology to traditional models of primary identification	192