Mammy's Milk and Absent Black Children
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5117883 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amber Jamilla Musser (0009-0006-8413-8462, George Washington University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 188-190 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Gender and Sexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1524-0657 • E-ISSN: 1940-9206 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15240657.2018.1491456 |
| OpenAlex | W2888782969 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Through an incisive and delicate reading of the figure of the Black mammy in Melanie Klein, Emily Green suggests that we imagine Klein’s processes of reparation as interracial, in that they offer a way toward making sense of racial violence and the ways in which its contours haunt the contemporary. This reading provides a way for psychoanalysis to acknowledge its Whiteness and begin to grapple with Blackness. This response, however, explores what this reading suggests about race and sensation and the processes by which Blackness is rendered abstract. It ends by posing questions about the materiality of the mammy and the absence of a psychoanalytic discourse on the Black child
Aesthetics · Art · Linguistics · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sociology · American Literature and Culture · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |