Toni Morrison's 'Beloved': Origins

by Justine Tally

This work expands the scope of Morrison's project to examine the ways and means of memory in the preservation of belief systems passed down from the earliest civilizations (both the Classical Greek and the Ancient Egyptian) as a challenge to the sterility of modernity. Moreover, this research explores the author's specific use of Foucauldian theory as a vehicle for her narrative, which reclaims the very origins of civilization's primal concerns...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415888530
• ISBN13: 9780415888530
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"