Psychoanalytical Psychology, Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, 20th Century American Literature - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism, 20th Century American Literature - Post WWII - Literary Criticism, Women Authors - American (U.S.)
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Overview
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.Editorials
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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 , /Book Details
Published
March 30, 2000
Publisher
Albany : State University of New York Press, c2000.
Pages
277
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780791444238