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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.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

viii, 228 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Rhys, Jean.--Wide Sargasso Sea.
Kincaid, Jamaica.--Lucy.
Morrison, Toni.--Sula.
Caribbean fiction (English)--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women and literature--Caribbean Area--History--20th century.
Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
Mothers and daughters in literature.
Human skin color in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Whites in literature.
Race in literature.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

9781403921987
1403921989

OCLC:

(OCoLC)53001241

LCCN:

2003060958

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)