Whiteness and Trauma: The Mother-Daughter Knot in the Fiction of Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid and Toni Morrison (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781403921987)

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.

Author: V. Burrows
ISBN-10: 1403921989
ISBN-13: 9781403921987
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/29/2004
Pages: 228
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2004 pg. 291