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1. 1. The Consequences of Trauma in Toni Morrison’s Beloved : A Psychoanalytic Reading of Sethe and Denver

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Tina Eriksson; [2023]
   Keywords : Anxiety; Core issues; Defence mechanisms; Feminism; Freud; Narrative; Psychoanalysis; Repression; Slavery; Trauma;

   Abstract : This essay’s main focus is on Sethe and her daughter Denver in Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) and how they try to survive the trauma that comes from slavery. By using psychoanalysis as a theoretical framework, the essay examines what psychological reactions Sethe and Denver have as two traumatised characters, and what happens to them psychologically when they are forced to face the repressed. READ MORE

3. 2. Representations of motherhood in Erdrich’s Love Medicine and Morisson’s Beloved

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Engelska

   Author : Linnea Hallström; [2017]
   Keywords : Motherhood; Erdrich; Morrison; feminist theory;

   Abstract : This thesis is a comparative analysis of the African American author Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved and the Native American writer Louise Erdrich’s novel Love Medicine. The focus of this essay will be the theme motherhood. READ MORE

4. 3. Beloved - Ghost of Slavery

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Helena Pongratz; [2014-07-01]
   Keywords : feminism; slavery;

   Abstract : Slavery, Feminism.... READ MORE