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- Sprache: Englisch
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Beloved by Toni Morrison, which tells the story of Sethe, a former slave who was prepared to commit a horrific crime rather than be forced back into slavery with her children. The novel explores the aftermath of her actions, and starkly illustrates the devastation wreaked by the institution of slavery and the legacy of trauma it left for African-American families. Toni Morrison is one of America’s most acclaimed living writers, having received awards including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Nobel Prize in Literature in the course of her decades-long career.
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TONI MORRISON
AMERICAN WRITER
Born in Lorain, Ohio in 1931.Notable works:The Bluest Eye (1970), novelSong of Solomon (1977), novelA Mercy (2008), novelToni Morrison is an award-winning writer and a Nobel Laureate. She is widely considered to be one of the most important American writers of our time.
Morrison is a writer of novels, short stories, plays and non-fiction. She is also an editor and a professor emeritus at Princeton University. She has received various prizes for her work, including the National Book Critics Circle Award for Song of Solomon, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Beloved, and most notably, the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
She is an African-American writer, and her work explores the experiences of black people in America. Her success and her status as an intellectual and as a Nobel Laureate mark her out as one of the most influential black American writers of the past decades. Slavery, racial oppression and the experience of being black in America are important elements in her fiction. Other significant themes include family, motherhood and love. Morrison’s style is unique: her use of language is poetic, and her use of African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) brings her characters to life.
BELOVED
A NOVEL ABOUT SLAVERY, VIOLENCE AND A MOTHER’S LOVE
Genre: novel.Reference edition: Morrison, T. (2007) Beloved. London: Vintage.1stedition: 1987Themes: slavery, racism, violence, infanticide, family, motherhood, love, memoryBeloved is the first part of what Morrison considers a trilogy (Tally 2007: 75), together with Jazz (1992) and Paradise (1998). The novels are linked by the common theme of exploration of African-American history.
Beloved, which is set in Cincinnati, Ohio after the American Civil War, tells the story of Sethe, a runaway slave, and her family. Sethe’s life is ruled by her traumatic past as a slave, and by her extreme act of killing one of her children rather than allowing her and her children to be recaptured by the slave owner. Sethe tried to kill all her four children and herself in a desperate attempt to protect them from the horror of slavery, but she was stopped before she could finish the act. The ghost of the murdered child haunts Sethe and her other children.
Morrison explores slavery in all its horror in this novel. Sethe’s deed is based on a historical event in which a slave woman killed her child in desperation when escaping from slavery. This underlines the social significance of the novel: the experiences of the fictional characters in the novel are comparable to those of real slaves.
Another important theme in the novel is love, particularly mother’s love. Sethe may have killed her child, but she was motivated by love. Her love for her dead daughter and her other children is central to the novel.
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THE GHOST HAUNTING 124 BLUESTONE ROAD
Beloved
