Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • CONTENTS
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Biographical and Social Context
  • 2.1 Morrison before Beloved.
  • 2.2 The Publication of Beloved.
  • 2.3 Morrison after Beloved
  • 3. Literary Strategies
  • 3.1 Magic Realism
  • 3.2 Call and Response Structures
  • 3.3 Beloved and the Jazz Aesthetic
  • 3.4 Free Indirect Discourse
  • 4. Sequential Development and Analysis
  • 4.1 Chapter One
  • 4.2 Chapters Two and Three
  • Rememory
  • 4.3 Chapters Four, Five and Six
  • 4.4 Chapters Seven and Eight
  • 4.5 Chapters Nine, Ten and Eleven4.6 Chapters Twelve, Thirteen and Fourteen
  • 4.7 Chapter Fifteen
  • 4.8 Chapters Sixteen and Seventeen
  • 4.9 Chapter Eighteen
  • Part Two
  • 4.10 Chapter Nineteen
  • 4.11 Chapters Twenty to Twenty Three
  • 4.12 Chapters Twenty Four and Twenty Five
  • Part Three
  • 4.13 Chapters Twenty Six, Seven, and Eight
  • 5. Interpreting Beloved
  • 5.1 Beloved and Modernism
  • 5.2 Beloved and Postmodernism
  • 5.3 Beloved and Realism
  • 5.4 Language and Motherhood in Beloved
  • 5.5 Dissenting Voices
  • 5.6 Beloved the Film
  • 6. Selected Bibliography6.1 Works on Beloved
  • 6.2 Works on Toni Morrison
  • 6.3 Internet Sources
  • Character List
  • Sethe
  • Beloved
  • Denver
  • Paul D
  • Baby Suggs (aka Grandma Baby)
  • Schoolteacher
  • Stamp Paid
  • Amy Denver
  • Halle Suggs
  • Sixo
  • Mr. and Mrs. Garner
  • Lady Jones
  • Ella
  • Mr. and Miss Bodwin
  • Paul F and Paul A
  • Buglar and Howard
  • Nan
  • Setheâ€?s Mother
  • A Note on the Author
  • Humanities-Ebooks
  • Humanities Insights