| Series |
Southern literary studies
Southern literary studies. ^A17900
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| Contents |
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. |
| Abstract |
In this 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 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. --from publisher description |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-212) and index. |
| LCCN | 2009053714 |
| ISBN | 9780807136492 (clo : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0807136492 (clo : alk. paper) |
