on his way from Selma to Mobile, one sees “more dead people than living ones.” Despite being “declared free,” Paul D. Perhaps this aptly describes the character Beloved, whose childhood is intimately entangled with her death, and whose real-ness is only as certain as everything else that from a past that lingers, thrives, and haunts, a past wracked with both the horrors of slavery and the breaths of freedom that are bittersweet when, like Paul D. She was describing the “area of consciousness” she applies in the novel, an area we are all familiar with and are certain we know exists because, as Morrison explains, “everybody was a child.”īecause we were all children, we know ghosts exist that trees speak and that, “lurk underneath the bed” is a world that is very real. “Ghosts, for me, are just something that have past,” Toni Morrison said in an interview about her fifth and, at the time, newest novel, Beloved, with the Associated Press.

Toni Morrison : A Teaching and Learning Resource Collection Main Menu Overviews of Toni Morrison's Fiction Overviews of Toni Morrison's Eleven published novels Overviews of Toni Morrison's Nonfiction and Drama Reception Histories Reception Histories: Toni Morrison's fiction Toni Morrison: Critical Overviews Toni Morrison: Biographical Note Biographical Overview of Toni Morrison's Life and Career Who Gets to be the 'Great American Writer'? Toni Morrison and Oprah's Book Club Maps and Data A Path Pointing to Maps and Data Related to Toni Morrison's Writings Amardeep Singh c185e79df2fca428277052b90841c4aba30044e1 'Beloved': Reception History 1 T16:52:53-04:00 Daniel Rosler b41c16396aec020db04c9f1498b0e637359d552c 203 28 plain T22:34:54-04:00 Daniel Rosler b41c16396aec020db04c9f1498b0e637359d552c The following reception history is by Daniel Rosler. Please enable Javascript and reload the page. This site requires Javascript to be turned on.

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