Title Quiet as it's kept : shame, trauma, and race in the novels of Toni Morrison / J. Brooks Bouson

Published Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (x, 277 pages) Series SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture. Contents "Speaking the unspeakable": shame, trauma, and Morrison's fiction -- "The devastation that even casual racial contempt can cause": chronic shame, traumatic abuse, and racial self-loathing in The bluest eye -- "I like my own dirt": disinterested violence and shamelessness in Sula -- "Can't nobody fly with all that shit": the shame-pride axis and black masculinity in Song of Solomon -- "Defacating over a whole people": the politics of shame and the failure of love in Tar baby -- "Whites might dirty her all right, but not her best thing": the dirtied and traumatized self of slavery in Beloved -- "The dirty, get-on-down music": city pride, shame, and violence in Jazz -- "He's bringing along the dung we leaving behind": the intergenerational transmission of racial shame and trauma in Paradise Summary "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."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-264) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Morrison, Toni -- Knowledge -- Psychology Morrison, Toni Morrison, Toni 1931-2019 Morrison, Toni. Psychoanalysis and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century 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. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. African American women in literature African Americans in literature Psychic trauma in literature Psychoanalysis and literature Psychological fiction, American Psychology Race in literature Shame in literature Women and literature Ethnische Beziehungen Motiv Scham Motiv Trauma Motiv Rasse Motiv Psychoanalyse Roman United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 99016422 ISBN 0585301921 9780585301921 0791497259 9780791497258

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