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100 1 a| Schreiber, Evelyn Jaffe,d| 1948-=| ^A516473;

245 10 a| Race, trauma, and home in the novels of Toni Morrison /c| Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber.;

260 a| Baton Rouge :b| Louisiana State University Press,c| 2011.;

300 a| x, 224 pages ;c| 24 cm.;

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490 1 a| Southern literary studies;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-212) and index.;

505 0 a| 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.;

520 a| In this study of all nine of Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison's novels, Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber investigates how the communal and personal trauma of slavery embedded in the bodies and minds of its victims lives on through successive generations of African Americans. Approaching trauma from several theoretical perspectives--psychoanalytic, neurobiological, and cultural and social theories--Schreiber analyzes the lasting effects of slavery as depicted in Morrison's work and considers the almost insurmountable task of recovering from trauma to gain subjectivity. --from publisher description;

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Race, trauma, and home in the novels of Toni Morrison / Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber.

Author/creator	Schreiber, Evelyn Jaffe, 1948-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2011.
Description	x, 224 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects	Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019--Criticism and interpretation. Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019--Characters. --Slaves. Slavery in literature. Home in literature.

Series	Southern literary studies Southern literary studies. ^A17900
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.
Abstract	In this study of all nine of Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison's novels, Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber investigates how the communal and personal trauma of slavery embedded in the bodies and minds of its victims lives on through successive generations of African Americans. Approaching trauma from several theoretical perspectives--psychoanalytic, neurobiological, and cultural and social theories--Schreiber analyzes the lasting effects of slavery as depicted in Morrison's work and considers the almost insurmountable task of recovering from trauma to gain subjectivity. --from publisher description
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-212) and index.
LCCN	2009053714
ISBN	9780807136492 (clo : alk. paper)
ISBN	0807136492 (clo : alk. paper)

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