Beloved by Toni Morrison | Resources

Beloved For Further Study

Marilyn Judith Atlas, "Toni Morrison's Beloved and the Reviewers," in Midwestern Miscellany, Vol. XVII, 1990, pp. 45-57.

A thorough survey of critical response to the novel
prior to its winning the Pulitzer Prize. The critic suggests
that the difficulties critics have had in interpreting
the novel lie in its sensitive subject matter
and complex design.

Bernard W. Bell, "Beloved: A Womanist Neo-Slave Narrative; or Multivocal Remembrances of Things Past," in African American Review, Vol. 26, No. 1, Spring, 1992, pp. 7-15.

Discusses Beloved as an exploration of the "double
consciousness" of Black Americans.

Eileen T. Bender, "Repossessing Uncle Tom's Cabin: Toni Morrison's Beloved," in Cultural Power/Cultural Literacy: Selected Papers from the Fourteenth Annual Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film, edited by Bonnie Braendlin, Florida State University Press, 1991, pp. 129-42.

Argues that Beloved is Morrison's meditated reaction
against the sentimental...
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