Beloved by Toni Morrison (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of 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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AMERICAN WRITER
Born in Lorain, Ohio in 1931.
Notable works:
The Bluest Eye (1970), novel
Song of Solomon (1977), novel
A Mercy (2008), novel
Toni 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.
A NOVEL ABOUT SLAVERY, VIOLENCE AND A MOTHER’S LOVE
Genre: novel.
Reference edition: Morrison, T. (2007) Beloved. London: Vintage.
1stedition: 1987
Themes: slavery, racism, violence, infanticide, family, motherhood, love, memory
Beloved is the first part