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Novel · 1987

Beloved

Toni Morrison

Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy

Novel · 1987 · American · Contemporary

Beloved

Toni Morrison

Sethe's household is haunted by the return of a past that cannot remain past.

Historical fictionGothicSlaveryMemoryMotherhood

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Fragmented voices resist an account of slavery as concluded history. The novel connects unbearable individual decisions with the systems that produced them.

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