Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race

by Pellegrini,Ann

• ISBN13: 9780415916868
• ISBN10: 0415916860
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1996-11-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Performance Anxietieslooks at the on-going debates over the value of psychoanalysis for feminist theory and politics--specifically concerning the social and psychical meanings of racialization. Beginning with an historicized return to Freud and the meaning of Jewishness in Freud's day, Ann Pellegrini indicates how "race" and racialization are not incidental features of psychoanalysis or of modern subjectivity, but are among the generative conditions of both. Performance Anxietiesstages a series of playful encounters between elite and popular performance texts--Freud meets Sarah Bernhardt meets Sandra Bernhard; Joan Riviere's masquerading women are refigured in relation to the hard female bodies in the filmPumping Iron II: The Women; and theTerminatorandAlienfilms. In re-reading psychoanalysis alongside other performance texts, Pellegrini unsettles relations between popular and elite, performance and performative.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction : The Seen of Difference: Re-Sighting the Performative	p. 1
Jewishness as Gender: Changing Freud's Subject	p. 17
Entr'acte: Portrait D'une Autre Dora	p. 39
You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real): Sandra Bernhard's Whiteface	p. 49
Citing Identity, Sighting Identification: The Mirror Stages of Anna Deavere Smith	p. 67
Through the Looking Glass: Fanon's Double Vision	p. 89
Between Men: Fanon, Memmi, and the Colonial Encounter	p. 109
Femmes Futiles: Womanliness, Whiteness, and the Masquerade	p. 131
The Included Middle: Uncoupling Sex and Gender	p. 149
Oedipus Reps: Woman as Sequel	p. 157
Works Cited	p. 173
Index	p. 185
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