https://library.icmglt.org/files/original/c3fddb512080c10bd5d133e756191bc5.jpg 3b9285fdde4b35a876483218ac082a12 Electronic Resource View Source <a href="https://sunypress.edu/Books/Q/Quiet-As-It-s-Kept2">https://sunypress.edu/Books/Q/Quiet-As-It-s-Kept2</a> Document Type Book Author(s) J. Brooks Bouson Book Title Quiet As It's Kept: Shame, Trauma, and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison Publisher SUNY Press Publication Date 1999 ISBN 9780791444245 Region United States Language English Access Restricted Access Abstract Quiet As It’s Kept draws on and extends recent psychoanalytic and psychiatric work of shame and trauma theorists to offer an in-depth analysis of Toni Morrison’s representation of painful and shameful race matters in her fiction. Providing a frank and sustained look at the troubling, if not distressing, aspects of Morrison’s fiction that other critics have studiously avoided or minimized in their commentaries, this book challenges established views of Morrison, showing her to be an author who forces readers into uncomfortable confrontations with matters of race. In Quiet As It’s Kept, J. Brooks Bouson explores these issues in Morrison’s works The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise. Morrison, Nobel prize-winning author, has viewed part of her cultural and literary task as a writer to bear witness to the plight of black Americans. “Quiet as it’s kept, much of our business, our existence here, has been grotesque. It really has,” she has commented. As she exposes to public view sensitive race matters in her fiction, Morrison presents jarring depictions of the trauma of slavery and the horrors of racist oppression and black-on-black violence. Cataloger Maria Qureshi Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Quiet As It's Kept: Shame, Trauma, and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison Subject The topic of the resource Morrison, Toni—Criticism and interpretation Black Americans Black Women Oppression Racism Shame Trauma United States