Quiet as it's kept : shame, trauma, and race in the novels of Toni Morrison /
"Quiet As It's Kept draws on and extends recent psychoanalytic and psychiatric work of shame and trauma theorists to offer an in-depth analysis of Morrison's representation of painful and shameful race matters in her fiction. Providing a frank and sustained look at the troubling, if n...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Albany, N.Y. :
State University of New York Press,
©2000.
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Collection: | SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- "Speaking the unspeakable": shame, trauma, and Morrison's fiction
- "The devastation that even casual racial contempt can cause": chronic shame, traumatic abuse, and racial self-loathing in The bluest eye
- "I like my own dirt": disinterested violence and shamelessness in Sula
- "Can't nobody fly with all that shit": the shame-pride axis and black masculinity in Song of Solomon
- "Defacating over a whole people": the politics of shame and the failure of love in Tar baby
- "Whites might dirty her all right, but not her best thing": the dirtied and traumatized self of slavery in Beloved
- "The dirty, get-on-down music": city pride, shame, and violence in Jazz
- "He's bringing along the dung we leaving behind": the intergenerational transmission of racial shame and trauma in Paradise.