Race Trauma, and Home in the Novels of Toni Morrison 9780807154489

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Автор: Schreiber Evelyn Jaffe
Название: Race Trauma, and Home in the Novels of Toni Morrison
ISBN: 9780807154489
Издательство: Louisiana State University Press
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Литературоведение: Общие вопросы

Литературные спутники (справочники), книжные обзоры и руководства

Исследования азиатских и африканских этнических групп

ISBN-10: 0807154482
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 224
Вес: 0.38 кг.
Дата издания: 01.08.2013
Язык: English
Размер: 226 x 152 x 18
Поставляется из: США
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In this first interdisciplinary study of all nine of Nobel Laureate Toni Morrisons 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 cutting-edge theoretical perspectives -- psychoanalytic, neurobiological, and cultural and social theories -- Schreiber analyzes the lasting effects of slavery as depicted in Morrisons work and considers the almost insurmountable task of recovering from trauma to gain subjectivity.

With an innovative application of neuroscience to literary criticism, Schreiber explains how trauma, whether initiated by physical abuse, dehumanization, discrimination, exclusion, or abandonment, becomes embedded in both psychic and bodily circuits. Slavery and its legacy of cultural rejection create trauma on individual, familial, and community levels, and parents unwittingly transmit their trauma to their children through repetition of their bodily stored experiences. Concepts of home -- whether a physical place, community, or relationship -- are reconstructed through memory to provide a positive self and serve as a healing space for Morrisons characters. Remembering and retelling trauma within a supportive community enables trauma victims to move forward and attain a meaningful subjectivity and selfhood.

Through careful analysis of each novel, Schreiber traces the success or failure of Morrisons characters to build or rebuild a cohesive self, starting with slavery and the initial postslavery generation, and continuing through the twentieth century, with a special focus on the effects of inherited trauma on children. When characters attempt to escape trauma through physical relocation, or to project their pain onto others through aggressive behavior or scapegoating, the development of selfhood falters. Only when trauma is confronted through verbalization and challenged with reparative images of home, can memories of a positive self overcome the pain of past experiences and cultural rejection.

While the cultural trauma of slavery can never truly disappear, Schreiber argues that memories that reconstruct a positive self, whether created by people, relationships, a physical place, or a concept, help Morrisons characters to establish subjectivity. A groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, Schreibers book unites psychoanalytic, neurobiological, and social theories into a full and richly textured analysis of trauma and the possibility of healing in Morrisons novels.

Race Trauma, and Home in the Novels of Toni Morrison, Schreiber Evelyn Jaffe