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INTERPRETATION, ANALYSIS AND CRITICAL ESSAYS
INTERPRETATION, ANALYSIS AND CRITICAL ESSAYS
Test Yourself! 40 Question Quiz on Beloved.
Toni Morrison's Beloved: Reflections of the Past
Discussion of Beloved including history, folklore, family, rememory, and Sethe's character development.
The Web Page of Toni Morrison's Beloved
Biography of Morrison, background information on historical and political events that affected characters in Beloved and some discussion of central themes.
Themes in Modern Literature - The Individual, Society, and the System
A site created by Advanced Placement Literature and Composition students at Springfield High School, Springfield, Illinois. This site examines elements of the supernatural in Beloved, symbolism in Beloved and the role of slavery in Beloved.
Extensive notes on Beloved including discussion of structure, imagery, significant themes, a synopsis of the novel and a timeline of events.
Toni Morrison's Beloved: Notes and Work Suggestions for Students
Interesting and useful notes complied by Adrian Fox, The Clarendon School, Trowbridge, UK.
Read Germans' reactions to reading Toni Morrison's novels, statements on Beloved and comments on the film adaptation.
A beautifully presented page containing biographical information and critical essays on each of Morrison's major works.
Transforming the Chain into Story: The Making of Communal Meaning in Toni Morrison's Beloved
An essay from Janus Head, an interdisciplinary journal.
Morrison's Beloved: Allegorically Othering "White" Christianity
MELUS, Summer, 1999
Looking into the self that is no self: an examination of subjectivity in Beloved
African American Review, Fall, 1998
Violence, home, and community in Toni Morrison's Beloved
African American Review, Summer, 1999
Beloved: ideologies in conflict, improvised subjects
African American Review, Spring, 1999
Sethe's choice: Beloved and the ethics of reading
Style, Summer, 1998
"Postmodern blackness": Toni Morrison's Beloved and the end of history
Twentieth Century Literature, Summer, 1998
Models of Memory and Romance: The Dual Endings of Toni Morrison's Beloved
Twentieth Century Literature, Winter, 1999
African American Review, Spring, 2000
Remembering the Disremembered: Toni Morrison as Benjamin's Storyteller
Schuylkill, Fall, 1997
Representation, race, and the "language" of the ineffable in Toni Morrison's narrative
African American Review, Summer, 1999
Other(ed) Ghosts: Gothicism and the Bonds of Reason in Melville, Chesnutt, and Morrison
MELUS, Spring, 1999
Author/Context , Plot Summary, Character Info, Object Info, Quotes Topic tracking Anger, Loss, Memory, Supernatural
Information about Toni Morrison, background information on the novel, character list and detailed summary and analysis of Beloved.
Information on the context of Beloved, brief descriptions of the characters, detailed summary and commentary on the novel and questions for study.
historical context,
INTERVIEWS, REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
Beloved by Toni Morrison - Book review
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1993
From the Nobel e-Museum providing links to a press release announcing Toni Morrison as the winner, a brief biography and Toni Morrison's Nobel Lecture.
Archive of articles and interviews from.
Chloe Wofford Talks About Toni Morrison
Claudia Dreifus interviews Toni Morriosn in The New York Times, September 11, 1994
Toni Morrison's Novel 'Beloved' Wins the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
The New York Times, April 1, 1998
Lifting the Memory of Slavery Into the Realm of Myth
The New York Times, October 8, 1993
Morrison Awarded Nobel Writer's 'Visionary Force' Cited
The Boston Globe, October 8, 1993
The Boston Globe, October 8, 1993
Time, January 19, 1998
Interview with Toni Morrison, Time, May 22, 1989.
The New Face of America: On the Backs of Blacks
Time, December 2, 1993
Nobel Prize-winning Author Toni Morrison
Transcript from Time chat on Jan. 21, 1998
Morrison discusses her novels and shares her ideas
Transcript of a talk Toni Morrison had with students at MIT, Friday, May 1, 1992.
The Salon Interview - Toni Morrison
An interview with Morrison focusing on Paradise. Salon.com, February 2, 1998
Reaping What Was Sown On the Old Plantation
Feature article in the New York Times examining the legacy of the civil war. By GINGER THOMPSON, June 22, 2000
FILM ADAPTATION
Production notes on the film adaptation of Beloved including comments on the casting and actor's comments.
Time, October 5, 1998
Time, October 5, 1998
Essence, December, 1998
Interview, November, 1998
Oprah and Danny sizzle in their fist love scenes in the powerful film 'Beloved.'
Ebony, November, 1998
Oprah Winfrey stars as a former slave in compelling drama 'Beloved.'
Jet, October 19, 1998
'Beloved': Oprah does period drama
A review of the film adaptation of Beloved from The Stanford Daily, October 22, 1998.
Beloved Review
Film Comment, November, 1998
October 23, 1998.
San Francisco Chronicle, Friday, October 16, 1998
Commonweal, November 20, 1998
Variety, October 5, 1998
San Francisco Examiner, October 16, 1998
Chicago Sun-Times
National Review, November 23, 1998
Chris Taylor's scathing review of Beloved. Salon.com, October 16-18, 1998.
Responses to Charles Taylor's review of Beloved.
Article by Charles Taylor on the art of film criticism. Salon.com August 18, 1999.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
The Cincinnati Enquirer's story on the capture of Margaret Garner, which was the inspiration for Toni Morrison's novel, Jan. 29th 1856.
Article about research as to whether a Kentucky farm is one of the places Margaret Garner lived as a slave, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Friday, October 2, 1998.
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
The Fourth of July, a day celebrating freedom, was used by Frederick Douglass to remind his audience of liberty's unfinished business, 5th July, 1852.
Excerpts from Slave Narratives
Documenting the American South Main Page
Slave Voices from the Duke University Special Collections Library
Discussions
