Beloved is without a doubt the most read, most often taught, and most often written about among Toni Morrison's six novels. In this casebook of previously published essays, the editors have collected, from among dozens of excellent possibilities, what they consider to be seven of the best in the group. In addition to the seven essays by contemporary scholars, the Casebook includes a poem and an abolitionist's tract published after slave woman Margaret Garnerkilled her child to save her from slavery. Carefully chosen, these pieces will give teachers and students easy access to some of the best materials published on Beloved
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction
- The Slave Mother: The Tale of the Ohio
- Margaret Garner and seven others
- Daughters Signifyin(g) History: The Example of Toni Morrison's Beloved
- Toni Morrison's Beloved: Re-Membering the Body as Historical Text
- The Ghosts of Slavery: Historical Recovery in Toni Morrison's Beloved
- Beloved: Woman, Thy Name is Demon
- Remodeling the Model Home in Uncle Tom's Cabin and Beloved
- Between Presence and Absence: Beloved, Postmodernism, and Blackness
- A Conversation on Toni Morrison's Beloved
- Suggested Reading