Race, trauma, and home in the novels of Toni Morrison

Main Author: Schreiber, Evelyn Jaffe, 1948-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2010.
Series:Southern literary studies
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10440683
Table of 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.