Utopian Studies, March 22nd, 1999
Jill Matus. Toni Morrison. Manchester and New York: Manchester UP, 1998. xiv + 208 pp. JILL MATUS'S SPECIAL CONTRIBUTION to Morrison scholarship, as well as to trauma theory, is her characterization of Morrison's novels as literary witnesses to the racial trauma African Americans have suffered. To date, Matus points out, trauma theory has rarely explored racism as trauma. An exception is Erwin Parson's exploration of the trauma suffered by African American soldiers in Vietnam whose tendency to identify with the Vietnamese increased the likelihood of their developing post-traumatic stress diso...
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