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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bouson, J. Brooks
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©2000.
Colección:SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "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.