Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-264) and index.
Contents:
"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.
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