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Author Bouson, J. Brooks.

Title Quiet as it's kept : shame, trauma, and race in the novels of Toni Morrison / J. Brooks Bouson.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2000]
©2000

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  818 M882YBO    Check Shelf
Description x, 277 pages ; 24 cm.
Series SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture
SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-264) and index.
Contents "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 traume in Paradise.
Subject Morrison, Toni -- Knowledge -- Psychology.
Psychoanalysis and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Psychological fiction, American -- History and criticism.
African American women in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Shame in literature.
Race in literature.
ISBN 0791444236 alkaline paper
0791444244 paperback alkaline paper
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