Toni Morrison: Beloved: Essays, Articles, Reviews

by Carl Plasa

Overview

With excerpts from interviews and reviews, an exploration of the historical documents and slave narrative traditions on which Morrison drew, and an insightful juxtaposition of psychoanalytic and postcolonial approaches to the novel, this guide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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231115278
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	01/27/1999
Series:	Columbia Critical Guides
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Carl Plasa teaches at the University of Wales, Cardiff.

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