Critical essays on Toni Morrison's Beloved /
Solomon, Barbara H.
New York : G.K. Hall,
c1998.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reviews.  Haunted by their nightmares / Margaret Atwood -- A gravestone of memories ; The ghosts of "sixty million and more" / Walter Clemons -- Death duties : Toni Morrison looks in sorrow / Ann Snitow -- Toni Morrison's Beloved country : the writer and her haunting tale of slavery / Elizabeth Kastor -- The pleasure of enchantment / Rosellen Brown -- Aunt Medea / Stanley Crouch -- A house divided / Judith Thurman -- Ghost story / Thomas R. Edwards -- Ties that bind / Marsha Jean Darling --
Essays.  The opening sentences of Beloved / Toni Morrison -- Nameless ghosts : possession and dispossession in Beloved / Deborah Horvitz -- Temporal defamiliarization in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Brian Finney -- Toni Morrison's ghost : the beloved who is not beloved / Elizabeth B. House -- Beloved : "woman, thy name is demon" / Trudier Harris -- "Breaking the back of words" : language, silence, and the politics of identity in Beloved / Barbara Hill Rigney -- The telling of Beloved / Eusebio L. Rodrigues -- Beloved : a womanist neo-slave narrative ; or, multivocal remembrances of things past / Bernard W. Bell -- Call and response as critical method : African-American oral traditions and Beloved / Maggie Sale -- The making of a man : dialogic meaning in Beloved / Deborah Ayer (Sitter) -- Beloved and the tyranny of the double / Denise Heinze -- Giving body to the word : the maternal symbolic in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Jean Wyatt -- Reading at the cultural interface : the corn symbolism of Beloved / Wendy Harding and Jacky Martin --
Original essays.  The Black English oral tradition in Beloved : "listen to the spaces" / Yvonne Atkinson -- Sethe's re-memories : the covert return of what is best forgotten / Jan Furman -- The disruption of formulaic discourse : writing resistance and truth in Beloved / Lovalerie King -- Transfiguring the narrative : Beloved-- from melodrama to tragedy / Terry Otten.
Morrison, Toni.
Historical fiction, American
African American women in literature.
Infanticide in literature.
Slavery in literature.