Race, Trauma, and Home in the Novels of Toni Morrison.
Title:
Race, Trauma, and Home in the Novels of Toni Morrison.
Author:
Schreiber, Evelyn Jaffe.
ISBN:
9780807138175
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (196 pages)
Series:
Southern Literary Studies
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION Trauma, Memory, and Subjectivity The Healing Power of "Home" -- ONE Shared Memory Slavery and Large-Group Trauma in Beloved and Paradise -- TWO Inherited and Generational Trauma Coming of Age in The Bluest Eye, Sula, and Song of Solomon -- THREE Searching for Safety The Persistence of Slave Trauma in Jazz and Tar Baby -- FOUR Bodies of Trauma Memory, Home, and Subjectivity in Love -- FIVE Echoes of "The Foreigner's Home" in A Mercy -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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