Introduction Chapter 1 Healing Trauma Through Music: Aesthetic Sensitivity and Cultural Conservation 1.1 Trauma and Black Musical Expression 1.2 Black Music as a Historic Process of Acculturation and Cultural Identification 1.3 Morrison's Music Aesthetics Chapter 2 Morrison's Spirituals: Traumatic Loss of Identity 2.1 Cultural Trauma and the Loss of Cultural Identity 2.2 A Spiritual Home Chapter 3 Morrison's Blues: Trauma and Traumatic Release o 3.1 Traumas and Turmoil in Blacks' Experiences 3.2 Release of Pains Chapter 4 Morrison's Jazz: Constructing Identity Through Cultural Hybridity 4.1 Re-inheriting Black Cultural Heritage and Awakening Black Cultural Consciousness 4.2 Fusing African Culture and Western Culture: the Southern Past and the Northern Present 4.3 Creating Future Out of Shadows of History: New Cultural Identity and Traumatized Black Identity 4.4 Participating in Communications and Bonds: Sisterhood, Community and Fraternity 4.5 Reconstructing Identity Through Transcending Given Names Chapter 5 Trauma and the Identity Construction inA Mercy 5.1 Morrison's Black Female Consciousness 5.2 Black Feminist Literary Criticism 5.3 Loss of Identity Under Intersecting Oppressions of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Class 5.4 Quest for Identity 5.5 Reconstruction of Identity 5.6 A Voice for All the Marginal Group Chapter 6 Childhood Trauma and Its Recovery in God Help the Child 6.1 Introduction to God Help the Child 6.2 Triple Roots of Childhood Trauma and the Symptoms 6.3 Narration: An Effective Way to Recover from Childhood Trauma 6.4 Trauma in Common Conclusion Bibliography