Quiet as it's kept
Subtitle: shame, trauma, and race in the novels of Toni Morrison
By: J. Brooks Bouson.
Series: SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Morrison, Toni -- Knowledge -- Psychology; Psychoanalysis and literature -- United States; 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
Description: "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 not distressing, aspects of Morrison's fiction that other critics have studiously avoided or minimized in their commentaries, this book challenges established views of Morrison, showing her to be an author who forces readers into uncomfortable confrontations with matters of race. In Quiet As It's Kept, J.

Brooks Bouson explores these issues in Morrison's works The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-264) and index.