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Quiet As It's Kept : Shame, Trauma and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison by J. Brooks Bouson (1999, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSTATE University of New York Press
ISBN-100791444244
ISBN-139780791444245
eBay Product ID (ePID)537682
Product Key Features
Number of Pages288 Pages
Publication NameQuiet As It's Kept : Shame, Trauma and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1999
SubjectAmerican / African American, General, American / General, Political, Subjects & Themes / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorJ. Brooks Bouson
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight14.4 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN99-016422
Reviews"I like the insightful and unforced way in which the concepts of shame and trauma are applied to the texts. The book is extremely well researched and informative, both in the discussion of shame and trauma and in the discussion of race matters and the secondary criticism on Morrison's work. Both literary scholars and psychologists should find it of great interest." -- Joseph Adamson, coeditor of Scenes of Shame: Psychoanalysis, Shame, and Writing "This book is marked by its lucidity; its command of the psychological theories of shame and trauma; its careful, informed readings of Morrison's texts; and its generally persuasive argument about the importance of shame and trauma to an understanding of Morrison's work." -- Barbara Schapiro, author of Literature and the Relational Self
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Table Of ContentPreface 1. "Speaking the Unspeakable": Shame, Trauma, and Morrison's Fiction 2. "The Devastation That Even Casual Racial Contempt Can Cause": Chronic Shame, Traumatic Abuse, and Racial Self-Loathing in The Bluest Eye 3. "I Like My Own Dirt": Disinterested Violence and Shamelessness in Sula 4. "Can't Nobody Fly with All That Shit": The Shame-Pride Axis and Black Masculinity in Song of Solomon 5. "Defecating Over a Whole People": The Politics of Shame and the Failure of Love in Tar Baby 6. "Whites Might Dirty Her All Right, but Not Her Best Thing": The Dirtied and Traumatized Self of Slavery in Beloved 7. "The Dirty, Get-on-Down Music": City Pride, Shame, and Violence in Jazz 8. "He's Bringing Along the Dung We Leaving Behind": The Intergenerational Transmission of Racial Shame and Trauma in Paradise Notes Works Cited Index
SynopsisQuiet 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 Toni 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. Morrison, Nobel prize-winning author, has viewed part of her cultural and literary task as a writer to bear witness to the plight of black Americans. "Quiet as it's kept, much of our business, our existence here, has been grotesque. It really has," she has commented. As she exposes to public view sensitive race matters in her fiction, Morrison presents jarring depictions of the trauma of slavery and the horrors of racist oppression and black-on-black violence., Focuses on the role of shame and trauma as it looks at issues of race, class, color, and caste in the novels of Toni Morrison. 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 Toni 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. Morrison, Nobel prize-winning author, has viewed part of her cultural and literary task as a writer to bear witness to the plight of black Americans. "Quiet as it's kept, much of our business, our existence here, has been grotesque. It really has," she has commented. As she exposes to public view sensitive race matters in her fiction, Morrison presents jarring depictions of the trauma of slavery and the horrors of racist oppression and black-on-black violence., Focuses on the role of shame and trauma as it looks at issues of race, class, color, and caste in the novels of Toni Morrison., This book challenges the established view of Toni Morrison's writings, arguing that she constantly shows the painful and shameful aspects of racism and presents readers with brutal depictions of the effects of slavery and racism on America's African-American population. Bouson (English, Loyola U., Chicago) draws on recent psychoanalytic work in the areas of shame and trauma to explore these issues in several of Morrison's novels, including Tar Baby, /
LC Classification NumberPS3563.O8749Z57 2000
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