SubjectAmerican / African American, Subjects & Themes / Women, Subjects & Themes / Historical events, General, American / General
Publication Year1999
TypeTextbook
AuthorCarl Plasa
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
SeriesColumbia Critical Guides
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight7.5 Oz
Item Length7.8 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN98-039506
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
Table Of ContentIntroduction '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
SynopsisWith excerpts from interviews and reviews, an exploration of the historical documents and slave narrative traditions on which Morrison drew, and an insightful juxtaposition of psychoanalytic and postcolonial approaches to the novel, this guide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well as the author's treatment of the physical self., With excerpts from interviews and reviews, an exploration of the historical documents and slave narrative traditions on which Morrison drew, and an insightful juxtaposition of psychoanalytic and postcolonial approaches to the novel, this guide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..