Postmodern Hybridity and Performing Identity in Gish Jen and Rebecca Walker

Using Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land and Rebecca Walker's Black White and Jewish, this essay explores a new mode of subjectivity in today's postmodern capitalist regime, an identity that incessantly moves among a proliferation of differences. The essay finally suggests a possibl...

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Published in:	Critique - Bolingbroke Society 2009-07, Vol.50 (4), p.377-400
Main Author:	Chen, Fu-jen
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	'Jen, Gish' (Lillian Gen) 1900-1999 American literature Authors Autobiographies Black White and Jewish Capitalism Culture English Literature Hybridity Identity Jen, Gish Lacanian psychoanalysis Literary criticism Mona in the Promised Land Narrative theme novel Novels Otherness performativity political identity Politics Postmodernism Race Racial Identity Sexuality Subjectivity Suburban areas Toomer, Jean (1894-1967) Twentieth Century Walker, Alice (1944- ) Walker, Rebecca Walker, Rebecca (1970- ) Walker, Rebecca, 1969
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Summary:	Using Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land and Rebecca Walker's Black White and Jewish, this essay explores a new mode of subjectivity in today's postmodern capitalist regime, an identity that incessantly moves among a proliferation of differences. The essay finally suggests a possible political identity, one that lies in acknowledging the extent of one's obedience to the Other, the recognition of the lack, and the ability to embrace a Lacanian "partial enjoyment."
ISSN:	0011-1619 1939-9138 1939-9138