Schreiber, Evelyn Jaffe, 1948-

Race, trauma, and home in the novels of Toni Morrison [electronic resource] / Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber. - Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2010. - x, 224 p. - Southern literary studies . - Southern literary studies. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


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Morrison, Toni--Criticism and interpretation.
Morrison, Toni--Characters--Slaves.


Slavery in literature.
Home in literature.


Electronic books.

PS3563.O8749 / Z853 2010eb

813/.54