Whiteness and Trauma

Download or read book Whiteness and Trauma written by Victoria Burrows and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-04-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.