Playing in the Dusk: Racism and Childhood Trauma in Toni Morrison's "Recitatif" and Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro

Garrigós González, CristinaDuart Merino, Carles2024-12-182024-12-182024-06-10Duart Merino, Carles, 2024. Playing in the Dusk: Racism and Childhood Trauma in Toni Morrison's "Recitatif" and Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro. Trabajo Fin de Grado. Universidad de Educación a Distancia (UNED)https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/24971LÍNEA DE TFG: 24. Literatura Norteamericana de los siglos XX y XXIThis work analyzes how racism generating childhood trauma is portrayed in two different experimental works authored by African American women writers in the second half of the twentieth century: “Recitatif” (1983), a short piece of fiction by Toni Morrison, and Funnyhouse of a Negro (1964), a one-act play by Adrienne Kennedy. From the perspective of trauma studies based on Cathy Caruth’s and Toni Morrison’s works, this essay examines the two works regarding their setting, characterization, point of view, and memory, paying attention to how nonconventional literary forms can convey political messages against marginalization.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess55 Historia::5505 Ciencias auxiliares de la historia::5505.10 FilologíaPlaying in the Dusk: Racism and Childhood Trauma in Toni Morrison's "Recitatif" and Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negrotesis de maestríaracismtraumamemoryToni MorrisonAdrienne Kennedy