Race, Trauma, and Home in the Novels of Toni Morrison /

In this first interdisciplinary study of all nine of Nobel laureate Toni Morrison's novels, Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber investigates how the communal and personal trauma of slavery embedded in the bodies and minds of its victims lives on through successive generations of African Americans. Approachi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Schreiber, Evelyn Jaffe, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Morrison, Toni.
Morrison, Toni > Characters.
Morrison, Toni > Criticism and interpretation.
Slavery in literature.
Home in literature.
Characters and characteristics.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Foyer dans la litterature.
Esclavage dans la litterature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In this first interdisciplinary study of all nine of Nobel laureate Toni Morrison's novels, Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber investigates how the communal and personal trauma of slavery embedded in the bodies and minds of its victims lives on through successive generations of African Americans. Approaching trauma from several cutting-edge theoretical perspectives--psychoanalytic, neurobiological, and cultural and social theories--Schreiber analyzes the lasting effects of slavery as depicted in Morrison's work and considers the almost insurmountable task of recovering from trauma to gain subjectivity. With.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (236 pages).
ISBN:9780807138175

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