Toni Morrison, Beloved / edited by Carl Plasa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Plasa, Carl, 1959-

Series:

Columbia critical guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019. Beloved.

Morrison, Toni.

Historical fiction, American--History and criticism.

Historical fiction, American.

African American women in literature.

Infanticide in literature.

Slavery in literature.

Ohio--In literature.

Ohio.

Physical Description:

167 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [1998]

Summary:

With excerpts from interviews and reviews, an exploration of the historical documents and slave narrative traditions on which Morrison drew, and an insightful juxtaposition of psychoanalytic and post-colonial approaches to the novel, this guide places Beloved in the contexts of Morrison's oeuvre and other works of African American literature. Chapters focus on the supernatural elements of the work, as well as the author's treatment of the physical self.

Contents:

Chapter 1 'An Extraordinary Act of Imagination': Reviews of Beloved and Interviews with Toni Morrison 14

Chapter 2 'Trying to Fill in the Blanks': Beloved's Intertexts 39

Chapter 3 'My Girl Come Home': Reading Beloved 57

Chapter 4 'This Is Flesh I'm Talking About': Language, Subjectivity and the Body 86

Chapter 5 'It's Not Over Just Because It Stops': Post-colonialism, Psychoanalysis, History 116.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-161) and index.

ISBN:

0231115261

OCLC:

39677848