Excavating the Past

Rememories and Healing in Toni Morrison’s Beloved

Authors

  • Rosilene Cássia Freitas de Aquino UFMG

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17851/1982-0739.10..196-201

Keywords:

African American history, Rememories, Healing, Slavery

Abstract

This essay discusses the possibility of the combination of the social with the aesthetic functions of African American literature. It analyses how the main characters of  Morrison’s Beloved are portrayed not just as individual and fictional types, but also as collective and historical ones, through which African American historical memory and culture are revealed in slavery time.

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References

Morrison, Toni. Beloved. New York: Plume, 1988.

Ryan, Michael. Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.

Taylor-Guthrie, Danille, ed. Conversations with Toni Morrison. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1994.

Walder, Dennis, ed. Literature in the Modern World: Critical Essays and Documents. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1990. 326-32.

Walter, Roland. Narrative Identities: (Inter) Cultural In-Betweeness in the Americas. New York: Peter Lang, 2003.

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Published

2012-12-31

Issue

Vol. 10 (2006)

Section

Em Tese

How to Cite

AQUINO, Rosilene Cássia Freitas de. Excavating the Past: Rememories and Healing in Toni Morrison’s Beloved. Em Tese, Belo Horizonte, v. 10, p. 196–201, 2012. DOI: 10.17851/1982-0739.10.196-201. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/emt/article/view/32281. Acesso em: 26 apr. 2026.