Question: Sethe is the protagonist of what 1987 novel written by Nobel Award winning author Toni Morrison?

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Beloved (film): Beloved is a 1998 American horror-drama film based on Toni Morrison's 1987 novel of the same name, directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, and Thandie Newton.  The plot centers on a former slave after the American Civil War, her haunting by a poltergeist, and the visitation of her reincarnated daughter whom she murdered out of desperation to save her from a slave owner.  Despite being a box office bomb, "Beloved" received an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design for Colleen Atwood, and both Danny Glover and Kimberly Elise received praise for their performances.

Paradise (novel): Paradise is a 1997 novel by Toni Morrison, and her first novel since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.  According to the author, it completes a "trilogy" that begins with "Beloved" and includes "Jazz".

Song of Solomon (novel): Song of Solomon is a 1977 novel by American author Toni Morrison.  It follows the life of Macon "Milkman" Dead III, an African-American man living in Michigan, from birth to adulthood.

Sula (novel): Sula is a 1973 novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, her second to be published after "The Bluest Eye" (1970).

Janis Mayes: Dr. Janis Alene Mayes is a leading American author, literary critic,literary translator and professor in Africana literature.  She has made literary contributions in French- and English-language literature in the African Diaspora.  Her specialties are in French translation literary practices.  She has translated ground-breaking anthologies and books in francophone literatures.  Her translation of "A Rain of Words" is the first comprehensive anthology of francophone poetry and includes work from 47 authors not well known outside of francophone literature.  She is also the pioneer and director of the first American study abroad program that examines the historical connections between African Americans and "Black Paris", entitled "Paris Noir".  The Syracuse University program has been influential in shaping Africana-focused cultural programs at leading museums in Paris such as the Louvre.  This original specialized program has also gained notoriety by attracting students from universities across the USA including Spelman, Agnes Scott, and George Washington University and Hampton University.  It has brought students to Paris to meet in scholarship with world-renowned artists whp are connected to the intellectual, artistic, and historical Black French experience, such as Nina Simone, Archie Shepp, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Sonia Sanchez and Toni Morrison.  She was a board member of the Toni Morrison Society.  In 2004, she participated in public conversations with Toni Morrison in Paris at the Theatre de la Madeleine after the unveiling of a bench commemorating the end of slavery in France.  She has also organized cultural literary conferences, including an event with "Discover Paris!"  that celebrated the literary contribution of Toni Morrison to the African diaspora.

Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation: Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA) is a written arts organization that was founded in 1999 by Pulitzer-prize winning author Junot Diaz, along with award winning author Elmaz Abinader, Víctor Díaz and Diem Jones in order to provide emerging writers of color with workshops and mentoring by established writers of color.  Since its founding, over 2,000 aspiring writers from around the world have been involved in their programs.

Home (Morrison novel): Home is a novel by the American author Toni Morrison, originally published in 2012 by Alfred A. Knopf.  It tells the story of Frank Money, a 24-year-old African-American veteran of the Korean War, and his journey home "a year after being discharged from an integrated Army into a segregated homeland."

Jazz (novel): Jazz is a 1992 historical novel by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning American author Toni Morrison.  The majority of the narrative takes place in Harlem during the 1920s; however, as the pasts of the various characters are explored, the narrative extends back to the mid-19th-century American South.

Tar Baby (novel): Tar Baby is a novel by the American author, Toni Morrison, first published in 1981.  The "New York Times" reviewer wrote of it: "...Toni Morrison's greatest accomplishment is that she has raised her novel above the social realism that too many black novels and women's novels are trapped in.  She has succeeded in writing about race and women symbolically."

Beloved (novel): Beloved is a 1987 novel by the American writer Toni Morrison.  Set after the American Civil War (1861–65), it is inspired by the story of an African-American slave, Margaret Garner, who escaped slavery in Kentucky late January 1856 by fleeing to Ohio, a free state.  In the novel, the protagonist Sethe is also a slave who escapes slavery, running to Cincinnati, Ohio.  After 28 days of freedom, a posse arrives to retrieve her and her children under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which gave slave owners the right to pursue slaves across state borders.  Sethe kills her two-year-old daughter rather than allow her to be recaptured and taken back to Sweet Home, the Kentucky plantation from which Sethe recently fled.  A woman presumed to be her daughter, called Beloved, returns years later to haunt Sethe's home at 124 Bluestone Road, Cincinnati, Ohio.  The story opens with an introduction to the ghost: "124 was spiteful.  Full of a baby's venom."

Supporting paragraphs: Paradise (novel) Beloved (novel)
Answer: Beloved is a 1987 novel by the American writer Toni Morrison.