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Critically analyzes Toni Morrison's "Beloved." Includes a biographical profile of Morrison's life and career as well as an overview of the plot, main characters, and major themes in the novel. Also contains several critical essays on the work written by various authors.
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Set after the American Civil War (1861-1865), the novel 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 twenty-eight days of freedom, a posse arrives to retrieve her and her children under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which gave slave...
6) Beloved
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Includes a collection of essays exploring the major themes of Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize winning novel "Beloved." Includes a chronology of Toni Morrison's life and a list of works written by Toni Morrison.
7) Beloved
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After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe & Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen.