Whiteness and Trauma: The Mother-Daughter Knot in the Fiction of Jean Rhys, Jama

Description: Whiteness and Trauma by V. Burrows 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 theorising of whiteness and trauma. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This 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. This study is a contribution to the broad fields of literary criticism, feminist theory and whiteness studies. Notes 1 It is unique in its use of whiteness as a critical methodology in the field of literary studies2 Makes new contribution to whiteness studies, which is a growing area of research3 Not only critiques the whiteness of contemporary feminist theory but also instigates an argument that is backed largely by the work of black feminists and cultural theorists4 Reconfigures the psychoanalytic model of trauma theory into one based on socio-cultural, historically specific context5 Feminist text that places the mother-daughter relationship at the centre of its analysis6 Includes discussion of Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid and Sula by Toni Morrison Author Biography VICTORIA BURROWS is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Western Australia. She is currently working on a monograph on whiteness and shame in colonial and postcolonial literature of the family. Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Unravelling the Knot The White Hush Between Two Sentences: The Traumatic Ambivalence of Whiteness in Jean Rhyss Wide Sargasso Sea Keeping History Safe Caught Between Ghosts of Whiteness: The Other Side of the Story Lucy: Jamaica Kincaids Postcolonial Echo The Search for a Voice The Sea Is History Knots of Death: Toni Morrisons Sula Ambivalent Maternal Inheritances The Gift for Metaphor A Meditation on Silence Bibliography Index Review [This] is a first rate literary study. By using metaphor as the instrument through which it seeks to come to terms with the vexed social and cultural issues it considers, it gives primacy to the distinctive work that literature performs...original and incisive. - Professor Cheryl A. Wall, Department of English, Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyThis study presents a critical argument of the highest importance and offers a timely and intelligently argued intervention into feminist and trauma theory. - Professor Linda Anderson, Department of English, Literature and Linguistic Studies, University of Newcastle Upon TyneWinner of the Toni Morrison Societys Award for ExcellenceVictoria Burrows offers a refreshing feminist reading of the complex mother daughter relationship as traumatised by racism and gender in three important novels: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (1966), Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid (1990) and Toni Morrisons Sula (1973)...In herintroduction, Victoria Burrows had asked the readers to participate in the study by creating an image of a densely threaded knot, one loosely entangled so that three dimensional spaces are visible between the looped strands (p. 1), as visual representation of the mother daughter relationship. Such an active reader role makes the reading of Whiteness and Trauma captivating. - Claudia Capancioni, Journal of Gender StudiesIllustrating "racialized silencing" and "belated recognition", Burrows provides close readings of three narratives that demonstrate how a repressed memory becomes the source of recurring psychic pain...Readers of these specific works and those researching literary treatments of whiteness and trauma will especially want this title. Summing up: Recommended - CHOICEBurrows concludes by discussing Morrisons only short story, Recitatif (1983), whose ending opens the interracial lines of dialogue between the two characters. Burrows successfully frames her text as an attempt to the do the same in the realms of feminist and trauma studies. Burrowss attempt to illuminate the masked whiteness of theory is a worthwhile task...[a] fine study,which will be of interest to literary scholars of a variety of backgrounds. - Aili McConnon, Women:A Cultural ReviewShe [Burrows] deftly weaves together the myth of Echo with the African American pattern of call and response in a wonderfully evocative reading of Kincaids Lucy...Burrowss reading of Morrisons Sula is similarly effective - Patricia Moran, Tulsa Studies in Womens Literature Review Quote [This] is a first rate literary study. By using metaphor as the instrument through which it seeks to come to terms with the vexed social and cultural issues it considers, it gives primacy to the distinctive work that literature performs...original and incisive. - Professor Cheryl A. Wall, Department of English, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey This study presents a critical argument of the highest importance and offers a timely and intelligently argued intervention into feminist and trauma theory. - Professor Linda Anderson, Department of English, Literature and Linguistic Studies, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne Winner of the Toni Morrison Societys Award for Excellence Victoria Burrows offers a refreshing feminist reading of the complex mother daughter relationship as traumatised by racism and gender in three important novels: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (1966), Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid (1990) and Toni Morrisons Sula (1973)...In her introduction, Victoria Burrows had asked the readers to participate in the study by creating an image of a densely threaded knot, one loosely entangled so that three dimensional spaces are visible between the looped strands (p. 1), as visual representation of the mother daughter relationship. Such an active reader role makes the reading of Whiteness and Trauma captivating. - Claudia Capancioni, Journal of Gender Studies Illustrating "racialized silencing" and "belated recognition", Burrows provides close readings of three narratives that demonstrate how a repressed memory becomes the source of recurring psychic pain...Readers of these specific works and those researching literary treatments of whiteness and trauma will especially want this title. Summing up: Recommended - CHOICE Burrows concludes by discussing Morrisons only short story, Recitatif (1983), whose ending opens the interracial lines of dialogue between the two characters. Burrows successfully frames her text as an attempt to the do the same in the realms of feminist and trauma studies. Burrowss attempt to illuminate the masked whiteness of theory is a worthwhile task...[a] fine study, which will be of interest to literary scholars of a variety of backgrounds. - Aili McConnon, Women:A Cultural Review She [Burrows] deftly weaves together the myth of Echo with the African American pattern of call and response in a wonderfully evocative reading of Kincaids Lucy...Burrowss reading of Morrisons Sula is similarly effective - Patricia Moran, Tulsa Studies in Womens Literature Description for Bookstore 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. Details ISBN1403921989 Language English ISBN-10 1403921989 ISBN-13 9781403921987 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2004 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle The Mother-Daughter Knot in the Fiction of Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid and Toni Morrison Place of Publication Gordonsville Country of Publication United States Birth 1951 Author V. Burrows Short Title WHITENESS & TRAUMA 2004/E Edition Description 2004 Pages 228 DOI 10.1604/9781403921987 UK Release Date 2004-01-29 AU Release Date 2004-01-29 NZ Release Date 2004-01-29 US Release Date 2004-01-29 Illustrations VIII, 228 p. Publisher Palgrave USA Publication Date 2004-01-29 DEWEY 813.54099287 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education Alternative 9781349515684 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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