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Genre/Form: | Historical fiction Novels Fiction |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Morrison, Toni. Beloved. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1987 (OCoLC)756430101 |
Material Type: | Fiction, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Toni Morrison |
ISBN: | 0394535979 9780394535975 1400033411 9781400033416 0452264464 9780452264465 0452280621 9780452280625 037540273X 9780375402739 0140283404 9780140283402 0375405623 9780375405624 849793265X 9788497932653 |
OCLC Number: | 15284982 |
Notes: | "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso |
Awards: | Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 1988. Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Race Relations, 1988. Frederic G. Melcher Book Award, 1988. |
Description: | 275 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Haunted by Their Nightmares / Margaret Atwood -- Toni Morrison's Beloved / Roger Sale -- A Different Remembering: Memory, History and Meaning in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Marilyn Sanders Mobley -- Beloved and the New Apocalypse / Susan Bowers -- Fleshly Ghosts and Ghostly Flesh: The Word and the Body in Beloved / David Lawrence -- Beloved: A Womanist Neo-Slave Narrative; or Multivocal Remembrances of Things Past / Bernard W. Bell -- Maternal Bonds as Devourers of Women's Individuation in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Stephanie A. Demetrakopoulos -- The Ghosts of Slavery: Historical Recovery in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Linda Krumholz -- Unspeakable Things Unspoken: Ghosts and Memories in Beloved / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- Daughters Signifyin(g) History: The Example of Toni Morrison's Beloved / Ashraf H.A. Rushdy -- Beloved: Toni Morrison's Post-Apocalyptic Novel / Josef Pesch -- Toni Morrison's Beloved: History, "Rememory," and a "Clamor for a Kiss" / Caroline Rody -- Ghosts of Liberalism: Morrison's Beloved and the Moynihan Report / James Berger -- Figurations of Rape and the Supernatural in Beloved / Pamela E. Barnett. |
Series Title: | Borzoi book |
Other Titles: | Beloved a novel |
Responsibility: | a novel by Toni Morrison. |
More information: |
Abstract:
Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio with her daughter and mother-in-law, is persistantly haunted by the ghost of her dead baby girl.
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