In this journal, Abdullah speculates that Toni Morrison seemed to be basing her mystic realism on the value system of the African-American cultural community. In Morrison's Beloved, the poet attempted to reinvent the loss of slavery and identity through poetic realism, speaking the unspoken. This paper will be applicable to my essay thesis because it will include important facts about the lack of identity created by slavery in Toni Morrison's Beloved.
Slavery in Toni Morrison's Beloved, D. Bryfonski. Greenhaven Press, Greenhaven, New York, 2012.
The book covers an assessment o of the influences and life of Morrison, a look at the key concepts linked to slavery in the Beloved, for instance, the effect of slavery on relationships amongst family members, and the psychological trauma that result from slavery, as well as the contemporary viewpoints regarding slavery. This information is crucial in exploring the loss of identity that results from slavery.
Dobbs, C. "Toni Morrison's Beloved: Bodies Returned, Modernism Revisited." African American Review, vol. 32, no. 4, 2013, p. 563.
In this article, Dobbs (2013) suggests that Toni Morrison's Beloved transmutes most of the prevailing crucial notions of the American modernism by permeating that modernism with the images of the oppressed and repressed black figure in pain. The historical era of slavery is cited as the beginning of post-modern and modern periods. This book provides relevant information regarding my research paper topic.
"Fractured Self and Loss of Identity in Beloved - Shounak's writing Portfolio."
sites.google.com/site/shounakswritingportfolio/academic-essays/fractured-self-and-loss-of-identity-in-beloved. Accessed 6 Dec. 2018. This website presents information concerning fractured self and identity loss. Transforming individuals into numbers through slavery made them lose their sense of identities since the treatment conditioned them from believing in their dehumanization. Relevant information in this website regards Sethe whose return repressed past and resulted in the loss of self and identity.
Lannette D. "Identity Formation and White Presence in..."
www.mckendree.edu/academics/scholars/issue17/day.htm. Accessed 6 Dec. 2018. In this website, Lannette argues that Morrison used psychological ramifications of spiritual, physical, and emotional desolation that slavery produced to mold her characters' sense of self and identity through directs white oppression and slavery experience. Morrison in Beloved demonstrated the presences of whiteness in the society and deliberate dehumanization of the African slaves in terms of self-identity.
Rué, E. D. "Herstory Unwritten: Trauma, Memory, Identity and History in Toni Morrison's Beloved." 2013, link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057%2F9781137268358_10. Accessed 6 Dec. 2018.
This chapter concentrates on the way Morrison constructed the identity of Sethe both without and within the black society. Morrison through the revision of the slave narrative understands the individual stories and expressions of characters as a representative of identifying black society. This web link provides relevant information on identity loss as an outcome of slavery in Toni Morrison's Beloved.
Works Cited
Abdullah, M. A. "Speaking the Unspoken: Rewriting Identity Loss and Memory of Slavery through Magical Realism in Toni Morrison's Beloved." English Language and Literature Studies, vol. 5, no. 3, 2015. Bryfonski, D. Slavery in Toni Morrison's Beloved. Greenhaven Press, 2012. Dobbs, C. "Toni Morrison's Beloved: Bodies Returned, Modernism Revisited." African American Review, vol. 32, no. 4, 2013, p. 563. "Fractured Self and Loss of Identity in Beloved - Shounak's writing Portfolio." sites.google.com/site/shounakswritingportfolio/academic-essays/fractured-self-and-loss-of-identity-in-beloved. Accessed 6 Dec. 2018. Lannette D. "Identity Formation and White Presence in..." www.mckendree.edu/academics/scholars/issue17/day.htm. Accessed 6 Dec. 2018. Rué, E. D. "Herstory Unwritten: Trauma, Memory, Identity and History in Toni Morrison's Beloved." 2013, link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057%2F9781137268358_10. Accessed 6 Dec. 2018.
