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Beloved as Postmodern Masterpiece Beloved as Postmodern Masterpiece
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The Way We Live Now The Way We Live Now
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What Good Is Reading Beloved? What Good Is Reading Beloved?
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Sethe’s Story Sethe’s Story
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What Kind of Community Does Beloved Dramatize? What Kind of Community Does Beloved Dramatize?
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Can We Approve Sethe’s Act? Can We Approve Sethe’s Act?
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Abstract
Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a novel whose chief aim is, in her own words, to “rememory” slavery despite the obvious implication that it is better to forget it. Slavery and its aftermath is perhaps the closest thing to the Shoah in United States history. In her foreword to the Vintage International Edition of Beloved (2004) Morrison writes about the attempt to make the slave experience an intimate one, and in the process of doing so, she states, it creates a violence in the quietude of everyday life, keeping the memory of enslavement and its inherent involvement of suffering, alive. The reading of Beloved surprisingly creates a useful and even indispensable means of understanding the mechanisms that govern our present-day world of “terrorists,” the War on Terror, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, cyberspace, and global tele-techno-military-capitalism. In turn, this moving story creates a sense of responsibility to avoid any future emergences of this memory of slavery.
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