Beloved
by Morrison, ToniEdition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1988-09-01
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Summary
Proud and beautiful, Sethe escaped from slavery but is haunted by its heritage--from the fires of the flesh to the heartbreaking challenges to the spirit. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest work. Unabridged. 11 CDs.
Author Biography
Toni Morrison is the Robert F. Goheen Professor of Humanities at Princeton University.
Table of Contents
| Editor's Note | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Haunted by Their Nightmares | p. 5 |
| Toni Morrison's Beloved | p. 11 |
| A Different Remembering: Memory, History and Meaning in Toni Morrison's Beloved | p. 17 |
| Beloved and the New Apocalypse | p. 27 |
| Fleshly Ghosts and Ghostly Flesh: The Word and the Body in Beloved | p. 45 |
| Beloved: A Womanist Neo-Slave Narrative; or Multivocal Remembrances of Things Past | p. 57 |
| Maternal Bonds as Devourers of Women's Individuation in Toni Morrison's Beloved | p. 69 |
| The Ghosts of Slavery: Historical Recovery in Toni Morrison's Beloved | p. 79 |
| Unspeakable Things Unspoken: Ghosts and Memories in Beloved | p. 97 |
| Daughters Signifyin(g) History: The Example of Toni Morrison's Beloved | p. 115 |
| Beloved: Toni Morrison's Post-Apocalyptic Novel | p. 141 |
| Toni Morrison's Beloved: History, "Rememory," and a "Clamor for a Kiss" | p. 155 |
| Ghosts of Liberalism: Morrison's Beloved and the Moynihan Report | p. 177 |
| Figurations of Rape and the Supernatural in Beloved | p. 193 |
| Chronology | p. 207 |
| Contributors | p. 209 |
| Bibliography | p. 211 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 213 |
| Index | p. 215 |
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