Anne Anlin Cheng
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 243529 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Anne Anlin Cheng |
| NOMBRES | Anne Anlin |
| APELLIDO | Cheng |
| FIRMA | CHENG A A |
| AFILIACIONES | Professor of English, Princeton University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Women on Walls
This paper studies a little known, newly surfaced collage made by the early-twentieth-century architect and designer Eileen Gray. I am interested in Gray's references to racialized femininity in this work, especially its invocation of Josephine Baker, and what this might tell us about the collage as a form of citational "cutting" and its ethics. I bring to bear on Gray's collage two other, seemingly separate stories, each with its own secrets and…
Ourselves in History—Narrating Grief in Asian America
In this conversation, Anne Anlin Cheng and Shivani Radhakrishnan address questions of writing across genre, the burdens of representation for Asian Americans, and the ties between intimate experiences of loss and larger social histories of racialized gender. This discussion draws from lived experience, psychoanalytic theory, histories of art and architecture, and scholarship on race
Second Skin
What does a Black burlesque star have to do with some of the most enduring and passionate ideas in modern aesthetic theory? Josephine Baker emerges in this previously untold story as a principal figure in the drama behind the making of Euro-American modernism. Instead of seeing her nude performances as a primitivist given, the author argues that Baker’s skin was central to heated debates about and desire for “pure surface” that crystallized at th…
Ornamentalism
Skins, Tattoos, and Susceptibility
This essay tells the story of the performer Josephine Baker and the architect Adolf Loos as a way to track an unexpectedly intimate dialogue between the making of the so-called "denuded modern surface" and the spectacle of black skin at the turn of the twentieth century. This connection in turn compels a reconsideration of the way we read (as) modern subjects
Psychoanalysis without Symptoms
This article meditates on the possibility of thinking about both psychoanalysis and contemporary critical analysis without the drive toward symptomatic reading. It argues that the instrumental expectation placed on the diagnosis of symptoms (of illness and of ideology alike) and the subsequent promise of transformative change have led to a series of critical impasses in liberal criticism. This essay contends that the failures of psychoanalysis (f…
Skin Deep
Anne Anlin Cheng is a professor in the Department of English and in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of The Melancholy of Race: Assimilation, Psychoanalysis, and Hidden Grief (2000) and is currently working on a book project on Josephine Baker and the crisis of modern visuality
Josephine Baker
This paper traces an intricate path connecting racial fantasy, aesthetic judgment, and the larger cultural problem of inter-subjective recognition. In particular, the author examines the theme of fetishism, both sexual and racial, in a Western historical, colonial context, in order to unravel a set of disturbances that cohere around the racial fetish then and now. Taking the figure of an entertainment icon of the 1920s, Josephine Baker, as a case…
Ralph Ellison and the politics of melancholia
In the Prologue to Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, the narrator explicates the novel's central metaphor by telling us that he is invisible because ''[white] people refuse to see [him].'' The narrator proceeds to illustrate this assertion with a story about a violent confrontation that took place between himself and a white man
The Melancholy of Race
In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne A. Cheng argues that we have to understand racial grief not only as the result of racism but also as a foundation for racial identity. She proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholy act – a social category that is imaginatively supported through a dynamic of loss and compensation, by which the racial other is at once rejected and retained, denigrated and idealized. Drawi…
Wounded Beauty
This essay explores the ways in which the expected political and moral discourse surrounding discussions of beauty, especially for the woman of color, displaces and misrecognizes the intense and uncanny experience of beauty. Lost between a feminist rejection of beauty's privilege and a racial denial of nonwhite beauty, the woman of color's relationship to beauty affords an opportunity to explore how a critique of racism may not align neatly with …
Memory and Anti-Documentary Desire in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee
Journal Article Memory and Anti-Documentary Desire in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée Get access Anne Anlin Cheng Anne Anlin Cheng University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 23, Issue 4, December 1998, Pages 119–133, https://doi.org/10.2307/467831 Published: 01 December 1998
Travellers' Tales
Ornamentalism
Travellers' Tales
Skins, Tattoos, and Susceptibility
This essay tells the story of the performer Josephine Baker and the architect Adolf Loos as a way to track an unexpectedly intimate dialogue between the making of the so-called "denuded modern surface" and the spectacle of black skin at the turn of the twentieth century. This connection in turn compels a reconsideration of the way we read (as) modern subjects
Wounded Beauty
This essay explores the ways in which the expected political and moral discourse surrounding discussions of beauty, especially for the woman of color, displaces and misrecognizes the intense and uncanny experience of beauty. Lost between a feminist rejection of beauty's privilege and a racial denial of nonwhite beauty, the woman of color's relationship to beauty affords an opportunity to explore how a critique of racism may not align neatly with …
Skin Deep
Anne Anlin Cheng is a professor in the Department of English and in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of The Melancholy of Race: Assimilation, Psychoanalysis, and Hidden Grief (2000) and is currently working on a book project on Josephine Baker and the crisis of modern visuality
Psychoanalysis without Symptoms
This article meditates on the possibility of thinking about both psychoanalysis and contemporary critical analysis without the drive toward symptomatic reading. It argues that the instrumental expectation placed on the diagnosis of symptoms (of illness and of ideology alike) and the subsequent promise of transformative change have led to a series of critical impasses in liberal criticism. This essay contends that the failures of psychoanalysis (f…
Josephine Baker
This paper traces an intricate path connecting racial fantasy, aesthetic judgment, and the larger cultural problem of inter-subjective recognition. In particular, the author examines the theme of fetishism, both sexual and racial, in a Western historical, colonial context, in order to unravel a set of disturbances that cohere around the racial fetish then and now. Taking the figure of an entertainment icon of the 1920s, Josephine Baker, as a case…
Travellers' Tales
Memory and Anti-Documentary Desire in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee
Journal Article Memory and Anti-Documentary Desire in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée Get access Anne Anlin Cheng Anne Anlin Cheng University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 23, Issue 4, December 1998, Pages 119–133, https://doi.org/10.2307/467831 Published: 01 December 1998
The Melancholy of Race
In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne A. Cheng argues that we have to understand racial grief not only as the result of racism but also as a foundation for racial identity. She proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholy act – a social category that is imaginatively supported through a dynamic of loss and compensation, by which the racial other is at once rejected and retained, denigrated and idealized. Drawi…
Wounded Beauty
This essay explores the ways in which the expected political and moral discourse surrounding discussions of beauty, especially for the woman of color, displaces and misrecognizes the intense and uncanny experience of beauty. Lost between a feminist rejection of beauty's privilege and a racial denial of nonwhite beauty, the woman of color's relationship to beauty affords an opportunity to explore how a critique of racism may not align neatly with …
Ralph Ellison and the politics of melancholia
In the Prologue to Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, the narrator explicates the novel's central metaphor by telling us that he is invisible because ''[white] people refuse to see [him].'' The narrator proceeds to illustrate this assertion with a story about a violent confrontation that took place between himself and a white man
Josephine Baker
This paper traces an intricate path connecting racial fantasy, aesthetic judgment, and the larger cultural problem of inter-subjective recognition. In particular, the author examines the theme of fetishism, both sexual and racial, in a Western historical, colonial context, in order to unravel a set of disturbances that cohere around the racial fetish then and now. Taking the figure of an entertainment icon of the 1920s, Josephine Baker, as a case…
Skin Deep
Anne Anlin Cheng is a professor in the Department of English and in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of The Melancholy of Race: Assimilation, Psychoanalysis, and Hidden Grief (2000) and is currently working on a book project on Josephine Baker and the crisis of modern visuality
Skins, Tattoos, and Susceptibility
This essay tells the story of the performer Josephine Baker and the architect Adolf Loos as a way to track an unexpectedly intimate dialogue between the making of the so-called "denuded modern surface" and the spectacle of black skin at the turn of the twentieth century. This connection in turn compels a reconsideration of the way we read (as) modern subjects
Psychoanalysis without Symptoms
This article meditates on the possibility of thinking about both psychoanalysis and contemporary critical analysis without the drive toward symptomatic reading. It argues that the instrumental expectation placed on the diagnosis of symptoms (of illness and of ideology alike) and the subsequent promise of transformative change have led to a series of critical impasses in liberal criticism. This essay contends that the failures of psychoanalysis (f…
Ornamentalism
Second Skin
What does a Black burlesque star have to do with some of the most enduring and passionate ideas in modern aesthetic theory? Josephine Baker emerges in this previously untold story as a principal figure in the drama behind the making of Euro-American modernism. Instead of seeing her nude performances as a primitivist given, the author argues that Baker’s skin was central to heated debates about and desire for “pure surface” that crystallized at th…
Ourselves in History—Narrating Grief in Asian America
In this conversation, Anne Anlin Cheng and Shivani Radhakrishnan address questions of writing across genre, the burdens of representation for Asian Americans, and the ties between intimate experiences of loss and larger social histories of racialized gender. This discussion draws from lived experience, psychoanalytic theory, histories of art and architecture, and scholarship on race
Women on Walls
This paper studies a little known, newly surfaced collage made by the early-twentieth-century architect and designer Eileen Gray. I am interested in Gray's references to racialized femininity in this work, especially its invocation of Josephine Baker, and what this might tell us about the collage as a form of citational "cutting" and its ethics. I bring to bear on Gray's collage two other, seemingly separate stories, each with its own secrets and…
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