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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: trauma, memory, and subjectivity: the healing power of "home"
  • Shared memory: slavery and large-group trauma in Beloved and Paradise
  • Inherited and generational trauma: coming of age in The bluest eye, Sula, and Song of Solomon
  • Searching for safety: the persistence of slave trauma in Jazz and Tar baby
  • Bodies of trauma: memory, home, and subjectivity in Love
  • Echoes of "The foreigner's home" in A mercy.

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