Toni Morrison, Beloved, African American, identity, novel, writer, society, american society
Beloved is an American fiction novel by Toni Morrison, published in 1987. Its story's plot is based on the notorious real adventure of Margaret Garner, an African American slave who succeeded into escaping to Ohio, murdering her last child rather than offering a new slave to the world. The novel has been distinguished with the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. The remarkable book offers a deep analysis about black people's conditions in the seventies.
[...] We may suppose that Morrison's work is to enlarge this vision offering a potential redemption to both communities. These elements come with no doubt in line with the fact that all Negroes were feeling in a state of supreme tension due to that difficult, dangerous relationship in which they stood to the white world. However, the novel also explores some other essential mixed humanist and African themes such as the traditions and the importance of mysticism within a great dedication to incarnations, beliefs and thoughts which are still the essential leaders, able to trouble but also to solve the many problems of individual psychism. [...]
[...] The remarkable book offers a deep analysis about black people's conditions in the seventies. Indeed, at that time, many questions were still to be solved letting the Afro-Americans into some blurred and unidentified social condition. It explores then, one of the critical issues that African Americans can't elude all across the twentieth century. What's the story of Beloved? Within Toni Morrison's novel, the hero called Sethe is first introduced as a former slave who chose to run in order to make a living with her family in Cincinnati. [...]
[...] Denver asks for help to the black community. When a white man comes to visit them for one of her job opportunity, Sethe attempts to kill him haunted by the memories of her former« master ». While the mother is taken to recover among the black community, Beloved vanishes, and Denver finally gets fully socially integrated among them. What this story says about African Americans condition during the seventies Even if the story mostly deals with modern African Americans' complicated struggle with the past and identity recollection, there is hope in Morrison's novel. [...]
[...] If Toni Morrison's novel principally deals with social collective issues linking past and present into a unique solution which involve responsability, the book goes far questioning both the real African American identity and offering to evaluate its real inner power. Nevertheless, the subjects are many as they also consider the individual awareness and responsability into creating one's own way out, which is some surprisingly recent idea. She offers to create connections between personal fate and personal power of action. This makes this book not only an American-type filter but also symbolizes the new studies on psychism and resilience, whom the only actor remains the very individuals. [...]
[...] One day, Paul a former slave and friend from Sethe's Sweet Home plantation comes to visit her, also help and support the burden of her past. As he, for a time, succeeds into making the strange appearance vanish, he also tries to integrate the two women into the black community through a carnival. When getting back, they found and get to know Beloved, a seducing and mysterious creature who charms all the persons she meets starting with Paul D and Sethe. [...]
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