Quiet As It's Kept: Shame, Trauma, and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison (Suny Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture) [Paperback]

J. Brooks Bouson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 2, 1999 | Series: SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture

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 Toni 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.

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About the Author

J. Brooks Bouson is Associate Professor of English at Loyola University in Chicago. She is the author of The Empathic Reader: A Study of the Narcissistic Character and the Drama of the Self and Brutal Choreographies: Oppositional Strategies and Narrative Design in the Novels of Margaret Atwood.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: State University of New York Press (December 2, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0791444244
• ISBN-13: 978-0791444245
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,342,205 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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