LITERATURE QUESTIONS
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
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Her own memories of slavery.
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Stories her grandmother told her.
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The television series Roots.
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Slave narratives.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Morrison’s main inspiration for the novel was an account of the event titled “A Visit to the Slave Mother who Killed Her Child” in an 1856 newspaper article initially published in the American Baptist and reproduced in The Black Book, an anthology of texts of Black history and culture that Morrison had edited in 1974.
Detailed explanation-2: -Beloved is a novel inspired by the true story of Margaret Garner, who escaped with her family from slavery in Kentucky to freedom in Ohio in 1856. When US Marshals apprehended the family under the Fugitive Slave Act, Margaret Garner murdered one of her children, a daughter, rather than see her enslaved again.
Detailed explanation-3: -In Beloved Morrison shows the physical and psychological effects slavery has on an African American women. In Beloved Morrison takes a real life event from African American history and gives special importance to the horrors and tortures of slavery to remind the reader about the past.
Detailed explanation-4: -The anonymous narrator of Beloved is omniscient. This means that the narrator has access to the interior thoughts and experiences of many characters, and reports those thoughts and experiences in the third person and without direct judgment.
Detailed explanation-5: -Toni Morrison’s Beloved is one of neo-slave narrative works which represents how Seth and Paul D, a pair of ex-slaves, escaped from the South but still haunted by the memory.