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x, 277 pages ; 24 cm, \"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, Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-264) and index, \"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 So

Author

Bouson, J. Brooks

Publisher

Albany : State University of New York Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780791444238

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, History