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Author Viego, Antonio, 1970- author.

Title Dead subjects : toward a politics of loss in Latino studies / Antonio Viego
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 293 pages) : illustrations
Contents All the things you can't be by now -- Hollowed be thy name -- Subjects-desire, not egos-pleasures -- Browned, skinned, educated, and protected -- Latino studies' Barred subject and Lacan's Border subject, or Why the hysteric speaks in Spanglish -- Hysterical ties, Latino amnesia, and the Sinthomestiza subject -- Emma PĂ©rez dreams the breach : rubbing Chicano history and historicism 'til it bleeds -- The clinical, the speculative, and what must be made up in the space between them -- Ruining the ethnic-racialized self and precipitating the subject
Summary Examines how Lacanian theory lends itself to a new way of thinking about ethnic-racialized subjectivity, applying it to notions of Latino/a subjectivity and experience in particular
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-278) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.
SUBJECT Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981 fast
Subject Hispanic Americans -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Hispanic Americans -- Psychology
Loss (Psychology) -- Social aspects -- United States
Racism -- United States -- Psychological aspects
Psychoanalysis -- Social aspects -- United States
Ethnic relations -- Psychological aspects
Hispanic Americans -- Psychology
Hispanic Americans -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Psychoanalysis -- Social aspects
Racism -- Psychological aspects
SUBJECT United States -- Ethnic relations -- Psychological aspects
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822390619
0822390612