Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: 2007-07-24
Book Size: 17.81 MB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Beloved

by Toni Morrison, Beloved Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Beloved book, New York Times Bestseller Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement. "You can't go wrong by reading or re-reading the collected works of Toni Morrison. Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye, Sula, everything else — they're transcendent, all of them. You’ll be glad you read them."--Barack Obama

Author: Ngwarsungu Chiwengo
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date: 2007
Book Size: 63.51 MB
Book Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 219
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Understanding Cry The Beloved Country

by Ngwarsungu Chiwengo, Understanding Cry The Beloved Country Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Understanding Cry The Beloved Country book, Essays and primary source documents dealing with African history and social conditions aid a critical analysis of the work.

Author: Amy Sickels
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date: 2009-01-01
Book Size: 18.60 MB
Book Format: PDF
Category : African American women in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 133
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Beloved

by Amy Sickels, Beloved Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Beloved book, - Comprehensive reading and study guides for some of the world's most important literary masterpieces. - Concise critical excerpts provide a scholarly overview of each work. - The Story Behind the Story details the conditions under which the work was written. - Each book includes a biographical sketch of the author, a descriptive list of characters, an extensive summary and analysis, and an annotated bibliography

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Publisher:
Release Date: 1999
Book Size: 16.28 MB
Book Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Infanticide in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Toni Morrison S Beloved

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Author: William L. Andrews
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date: 1999
Book Size: 12.30 MB
Book Format: PDF
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 223
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Toni Morrison S Beloved

by William L. Andrews, Toni Morrison S Beloved Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Toni Morrison S Beloved book, With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importance for students and scholars of American literature. This exciting new series assembles key documents and criticism concerning these works that have so recently become central components of the American literature curriculum. Each casebook will reprint documents relating to the work's historical context and reception, present the best in critical essays, and when possible, feature an interview of the author. The series will provide, for the first time, an accessible forum in which readers can come to a fuller understanding of these contemporary masterpieces and the unique aspects of American ethnic, racial, or cultural experience that they so ably portray. This casebook to Morrison's classic novel presents seven essays that represent the best in contemporary criticism of the book. In addition, the book includes a poem and an abolitionist's tract published after a slave named Margaret Garner killed her child to save her from slavery--the very incident Morrison fictionalizes in Beloved.

Author: Gail Rae Rosensfit
Publisher: Research & Education Assoc.
Release Date: 2015-04-24
Book Size: 15.29 MB
Book Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Beloved Maxnotes Literature Guides

by Gail Rae Rosensfit, Beloved Maxnotes Literature Guides Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Beloved Maxnotes Literature Guides book, REA's MAXnotes for Toni Morrison's Beloved MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions. MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists, an explanation and discussion of the plot, the work's historical context, illustrations to convey the mood of the work, and a biography of the author. Each chapter is individually summarized and analyzed, and has study questions and answers.

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date: 2010
Book Size: 39.64 MB
Book Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Apartheid in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 195
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Alan Paton S Cry The Beloved Country

by Harold Bloom, Alan Paton S Cry The Beloved Country Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Alan Paton S Cry The Beloved Country book, Camus's landmark novel traces the aftermath of a shocking crime and the man whose fate is sealed with one rash and foolhardy act. The Stranger presents readers with a new kind of protagonist, a man unable to transcend the tedium and inherent absurdity of everyday existence in a world indifferent to the struggles and strivings of its human denizens. This addition to the Bloom's Guides series features an annotated bibliography and a listing of works by the author for further reading.

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date: 2009
Book Size: 22.61 MB
Book Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 221
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Toni Morrison S Beloved

by Harold Bloom, Toni Morrison S Beloved Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Toni Morrison S Beloved book, Presents critical essays that discuss the characters, plot, language, and major themes of the African American author's novel about slavery.

Author: Robert Van Arsdale
Publisher: Open Door Publishing
Release Date: 2004-04
Book Size: 43.26 MB
Book Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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The Way Of The Beloved

by Robert Van Arsdale, The Way Of The Beloved Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Way Of The Beloved book,

Author: Kathleen Marks
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date: 2002
Book Size: 24.13 MB
Book Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Toni Morrison S Beloved And The Apotropaic Imagination

by Kathleen Marks, Toni Morrison S Beloved And The Apotropaic Imagination Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Toni Morrison S Beloved And The Apotropaic Imagination book, "Toni Morrison's Beloved and the Apotropaic Imagination investigates Toni Morrison's Beloved in light of ancient Greek influences, arguing that the African American experience depicted in the novel can be set in a broader context than is usually allowed. Kathleen Marks gives a history of the apotropaic from ancient to modern times, and shows the ways that Beloved'sprotagonist, Sethe, and her community engage the apotropaic as a mode of dealing with their communal suffering. Apotropaic, from the Greek, meaning "to turn away from," refers to rituals that were performed in ancient times to ward off evil deities. Modern scholars use the term to denote an action that, in attempting to prevent an evil, causes that very evil. Freud employed the apotropaic to explain his thought concerning Medusa and the castration complex, and Derrida found the apotropaic's logic of self-sabotage consonant with his own thought. Marks draws on this critical history and argues that Morrison's heroine's effort to keep the past at bay is apotropaic: a series of gestures aimed at resisting a danger, a threat, an imperative. These gestures anticipate, mirror, and put into effect that which they seek to avoid--one does what one finds horrible so as to mitigate its horror. In Beloved, Sethe's killing of her baby reveals this dynamic: she kills the baby in order to save it. As do all great heroes, Sethe transgresses boundaries, and such transgressions bring with them terrific dangers: for example, the figure Beloved. Yet Sethe's action has ritualistic undertones that link it to the type of primal crimes that can bring relief to a petrified community. It is through these apotropaic gestures that the heroine and the community resist what Morrison calls "cultural amnesia" and engage in a shared past, finally inaugurating a new order of love. Toni Morrison's Beloved and the Apotropaic Imagination is eclectic in its approach--calling upon Greek religion, Greek mythology and underworld images, and psychology. Marks looks at the losses and benefits of the kind of self-damage/self-agency the apotropaic affords. Such an approach helps to frame the questions of the role of suffering in human life, the relation between humans and the underworld, and the uses of memory and history."--Publishers website.

Author: Anne C. Rose
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date: 2001
Book Size: 50.49 MB
Book Format: PDF
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Beloved Strangers

by Anne C. Rose, Beloved Strangers Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Beloved Strangers book, Interfaith marriage is a visible and often controversial part of American life--and one with a significant history. This is the first historical study of religious diversity in the home. Anne Rose draws a vivid picture of interfaith marriages over the century before World War I, their problems and their social consequences. She shows how mixed-faith families became agents of change in a culture moving toward pluralism. Following them over several generations, Rose tracks the experiences of twenty-six interfaith families who recorded their thoughts and feelings in letters, journals, and memoirs. She examines the decisions husbands and wives made about religious commitment, their relationships with the extended families on both sides, and their convictions. These couples--who came from strong Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish backgrounds--did not turn away from religion but made personalized adjustments in religious observance. Increasingly, the author notes, women took charge of religion in the home. Rose's family-centered look at private religious decisions and practice gives new insight on American society in a period when it was becoming more open, more diverse, and less community-bound.

Author: Raymond Edward Brown
Publisher: Paulist Press
Release Date: 1979
Book Size: 67.99 MB
Book Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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The Community Of The Beloved Disciple

by Raymond Edward Brown, The Community Of The Beloved Disciple Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Community Of The Beloved Disciple book, "This study in Johannine ecclesiology reconstructs the history of one Christian community in the first century -- a community whose life from its inception to its last hour is reflected in the Gospel and Epistles of John. It was a community that struggled with the world, with the Jews, and with other Christians. Eventually the struggle spread even to its own ranks. It was, in short, a community not unlike the Church of today. This book offers a different view of the traditional Johannine eagle. In the Gospel the eagle soars above the earth, but with talons bared for the fray. In the Epistles we discover the eaglets tearing at each other for possession of the nest" -- Back cover.