Disordered whiteness: A shape/an unwound sonnet late on the tide

This paper is a multifaceted exploration of white subjectivity and the social phenomena of whiteness, about which there is a considerable body of psychoanalytic literature spanning decades. Hazel White's “unwound sonnet late on the tide” explores themes of traumatic legacies, family, shame, and...

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Published inInternational journal of applied psychoanalytic studies Vol. 21; no. 3
Main Authors Rao, Jyoti M., White, Hazel
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.09.2024
Subjects
anti‐Black racism
mourning
poetry
shame
transracial adoption
whiteness
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Summary:This paper is a multifaceted exploration of white subjectivity and the social phenomena of whiteness, about which there is a considerable body of psychoanalytic literature spanning decades. Hazel White's “unwound sonnet late on the tide” explores themes of traumatic legacies, family, shame, and mourning. Critical poetic inquiry is used to consider these themes and make links between the poetics of psychoanalytic processes and the psychoanalysis of poetics.
ISSN:1742-3341
1556-9187
DOI:10.1002/aps.1876