附註: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 Song of Solomon -- "Defacating over a whole people": the politics of shame and the failure of love in Tar baby -- "Whites might dirty her all right, but not her best thing": the dirtied and traumatized self of slavery in Beloved -- "The dirty, get-on-down music": city pride, shame, and violence in Jazz -- "He's bringing along the dung we leaving behind": the intergenerational transmission of racial shame and trauma in Paradise.
摘要:"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.
