Quiet as it's kept: shame, trauma, and race in the novels of Toni Morrison

"Speaking the unspeakable": shame, trauma, and Morrison's fiction

"The devastation that even casual racial contempt can cause": chronic shame, traumatic abuse, and racial self-loathing in The bluest eye

"I like my own dirt": disinterested violence and shamelessness in Sula

"Can't nobody fly with all that shit": the shame-pride axis and black masculinity in Song of Solomon

"Defacating over a whole people": the politics of shame and the failure of love in Tar baby

"Whites might dirty her all right, but not her best thing": the dirtied and traumatized self of slavery in Beloved

"The dirty, get-on-down music": city pride, shame, and violence in Jazz

"He's bringing along the dung we leaving behind": the intergenerational transmission of racial shame and trauma in Paradise.