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Whiteness and trauma : the mother-daughter knot in the fiction of Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid, and Toni Morrison
- Title
- Whiteness and trauma : the mother-daughter knot in the fiction of Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid, and Toni Morrison / Victoria Burrows.
- Author
- Burrows, Victoria, 1951-
- Publication
- Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 228 p.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century
- Mothers and daughters in literature
- Psychic trauma in literature
- Caribbean fiction (English) > Women authors > History and criticism
- Whites in literature
- Morrison, Toni > Sula
- Human skin color in literature
- Kincaid, Jamaica > Lucy
- Rhys, Jean > Wide Sargasso Sea
- Race in literature
- Women and literature > Caribbean Area > History > 20th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-219) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : unravelling the knot -- "The white hush between two sentences" : the traumatic ambivalence of whiteness in Wide Sargasso Sea -- Keeping history safe -- "Caught between ghosts of whiteness" : the other side of the story -- Lucy : Jamaica Kincaid's postcolonial echo -- The search for a voice -- "The sea is history" -- "Knots of death" : Toni Morrison's Sula -- Ambivalent maternal inheritances -- The "gift for metaphor" -- Conclusion : a meditation on silence.
- Call Number
- Sc D 05-813
- ISBN
- 1403921989
- LCCN
- 2003060958
- OCLC
- 53001241
- Author
- Burrows, Victoria, 1951-
- Title
- Whiteness and trauma : the mother-daughter knot in the fiction of Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid, and Toni Morrison / Victoria Burrows.
- Imprint
- Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-219) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 05-813