Velinova, Eva (2015) The Memory and the Reconstruction of Postcolonial Identities: Toni Morrison`s Novel Beloved. International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research, 24 (5). pp. 184-203. ISSN 2307-4531
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Abstract
The purpose of this essay is to develop the idea of possible dissymmetry between the individual memory and the
official history, by focusing on the novel Beloved of the Afro-American writer Toni Morrison. If the historical
discourse of the black slavery is built upon the experiences narrated from the perspective of the dominant
subject, and often passes under silence to the violence of these experiences, then the truth about the past cannot
be simply reduced to the history. In fact, there is a memory preserved in the conscience of the people, fulfilled
with the painful events from the past. The novel is about the necessity of memory in which the author sees a
possibility for a slave to develop a re-appropriation of his own subjectivity. The memory has also the function to
reconnect because it develops a new form of social organization in the novel: a civil society built upon sharing
in opposition of the society of domination.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Humanities > Languages and literature |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Philology |
| Depositing User: | Eva Gorgievska |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Jan 2016 12:17 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Jan 2016 12:17 |
| URI: | https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/14866 |
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