Resonances of Slavery in Race/Gender Relations

1. Introduction
Jane Flax

2. Shadow at the Heart: Race/Gender Domination and the Melancholia of American Politics
Jane Flax

3. Melancholia: A Genealogy
Jane Flax

4. Fabricating Subjectivity: Monster’s Ball, The Deep End, and Crash as Enactments of Race/Gender in the Contemporary United States
Jane Flax

5. Paradise Lost: Race/Gender Melancholia and the Limits of Political Liberalism
Jane Flax

6. Politics for Fallen Angels: Subjectivity, Democratic Citizenship, and Undoing Race/Gender Melancholia
Jane Flax

7. In-Conclusion: Remedies and Constraints
Jane Flax

Keywords: Literature, North American Literature, Ethnicity Studies, Gender Studies, Feminism, African American Culture