Risking Difference -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: I Want to Be You -- Part I: Totalizing Identifications -- 1. The Politics of Envy in Academic Feminist Communities and in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride -- 2. I Want You To Be Me: Parent-Child Identi.cation in D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow and Carolyn Kay Steedman's Landscape for a Good Woman -- 3. Identification with the Trauma of Others: Slavery, Collective Trauma, and the Difficulties of Representation in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Part II: Structures of Identi.cation in the Visual Field -- 4. Race and Idealization in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby and in White Feminist Cross-Race Fantasies -- 5. Luring the Gaze: Desire and Interpellation in Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek," Anne Tyler's Saint Maybe, Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop, and Margaret Drabble's Jerusalem the Golden -- 6. Disidenti.cation and Border Negotiations of Gender in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek -- Part III: Heteropathic Identi.cations -- 7. Toward Cross-Race Dialogue: Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa, and the Psychoanalytic Politics of Community -- Appendix. The Challenges of Infant Research and Neurobiology to Traditional Models of Primary Identification -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CHAPTER 7 -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.