Race, trauma, and home in the novels of Toni Morrison
By: Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber.
Series: Southern literary studies
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780807136492
Subjects: Morrison, Toni -- Criticism and interpretation; Morrison, Toni -- Characters -- Slaves; Slavery in literature; Home in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: trauma, memory, and subjectivity: the healing power of "home"; title: Shared memory: slavery and large-group trauma in Beloved and Paradise; title: Inherited and generational trauma: coming of age in the Bluest eye, Sula, and Song of Solomon; title: Searching for safety: the persistence of slave trauma in Jazz and Tar baby; title: Bodies of trauma: memory, home, and subjectivity in love; title: Echoes of "The foreigner's home" in A mercy.