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

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Whiteness and trauma

electronic resource

Victoria Burrows

the mother-daughter knot in the fiction of Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid and Toni Morrison

Using cutting-edge cultural and literary theory to examine the 'knotted' mother-daughter relations that form the thematic basis of the texts examined, and with close reading and contextualization, this study is focused through issues of race and contemporary theorizing of whiteness and trauma., This original and incisive study of the fiction of Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid and Toni Morrison uses cutting edge cultural and literary theory to examine the 'knotted' mother-daughter relations that form the thematic basis of the texts examined. Using both close reading and contextualization, the analyses are focused through issues of race and contemporary theorizing of whiteness and trauma. Remarkably eloquent, scholarly and thought-provoking, this book contributes strongly to the broad fields of literary criticism, feminist theory and whiteness studies