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, the mother-daughter knot in the fiction of Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid and Toni Morrison, Victoria Burrows
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eng
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index present
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Whiteness and trauma
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electronic resource
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Victoria Burrows
Sub title
the mother-daughter knot in the fiction of Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid and Toni Morrison
Summary
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
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- Ethnic studies
- Gender studies, gender groups
- Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
- Fiction & related items
- Caribbean fiction (English) + Women authors + History and criticism
- Gender studies: women & girls
- Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
- Literary studies: general
- English
- Electronic books
- Kincaid, Jamaica
- United States of America, USA
- Race in literature
- Morrison, Toni
- Social & cultural history
- Literary studies: post-colonial literature
- Women and literature + History -- 20th century
- Literature: history & criticism
- Rhys, Jean
- Literature
- Mothers and daughters in literature
- Fiction: general & literary
- Human skin color in literature
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- Classification1
- Creator1
- Genre2
- Subject23
- Ethnic studies
- Gender studies, gender groups
- Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
- Fiction & related items
- Caribbean fiction (English) + Women authors + History and criticism
- Gender studies: women & girls
- Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
- Literary studies: general
- English
- Electronic books
- Kincaid, Jamaica
- United States of America, USA
- Race in literature
- Morrison, Toni
- Social & cultural history
- Literary studies: post-colonial literature
- Women and literature + History -- 20th century
- Literature: history & criticism
- Rhys, Jean
- Literature
- Mothers and daughters in literature
- Fiction: general & literary
- Human skin color in literature