Toni Morrison : Beloved
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Toni Morrison : Beloved
（Columbia critical guides / series editor, Richard Beynon）
Columbia University Press, c1998
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 158-162) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780231115261
Description
Summarizes the critical reaction to the American writer's 1987 novel. Includes chapters on immediate reviews and interviews, the relationship of the novel to the African-American slave narrative tradition, interpretation of the uncanny figure who give title to the novel, the figuring of male and fe
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: pbk ISBN 9780231115278
Description
With excerpts from interviews and reviews, an exploration of the historical documents and slave narrative traditions on which Morrison drew, and an insightful juxtaposition of psychoanalytic and postcolonial approaches to the novel, this guide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.
Table of Contents
Introduction 'An Extraordinary Act of Imagination': Reviews of Beloved and Interviews with Toni Morrison 'Trying to Fill in the Blanks': Beloved's Intertexts 'My Girl Come Home': Reading Beloved 'This is the Flesh I'm Talking About': Language, Subjectiv ity and the Body 'It's Not Over Just Because It Stops': Post-colonialism, Psychoanalysis, History
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