Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2008-11-18
ISBN 13 : 1134361319
Total Pages : 196 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (436 users downloads)
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Download or read book Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' written by Justine Tally and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-11-18 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work expands the scope of Morrison’s project to examine the ways and means of memory in the preservation of belief systems passed down from the earliest civilizations (both the Classical Greek and the Ancient Egyptian) as a challenge to the sterility of modernity. Moreover, this research explores the author’s specific use of Foucauldian theory as a vehicle for her narrative, which reclaims the very origins of civilization’s primal concerns with life, procreation and regeneration, springing from the very Heart of Africa. Despite the weight of "white" authority and the disparaging of "blackness," Beloved’s multiple "ghosts" conjure up a legacy so potent that no authoritarian discourse has been able to entirely erase it, a legacy that still speaks to us from a heritage we no longer acknowledge yet that nevertheless remains, and sustains us.