Title Whiteness and trauma : the mother-daughter knot in the fiction of Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid, and Toni Morrison / Victoria Burrows.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PR9205.4 .B87 2004	Available	---

Description	viii, 228 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
Subject	Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea.
	Kincaid, Jamaica. Lucy.
	Morrison, Toni. Sula.
	Caribbean fiction (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
	Caribbean fiction (English)
	Women authors.
	Women and literature -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 20th century.
	Women and literature.
	Caribbean Area.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	United States.
	Mothers and daughters in literature.
	Mothers and daughters in literature.
	Human skin color in literature.
	Human skin color in literature.
	Psychic trauma in literature.
	Psychic trauma in literature.
	White people in literature.
	White people in literature.
	Race in literature.
	Race in literature.
ISBN	1403921989