York Notes on "Beloved"

by Laura Gray

Key Features: * Study methods * Introduction to the text * Summaries with critical notes * Themes and techniques * Textual analysis of key passages * Author biography * Historical and literary background * Modern and historical critical approaches * Chronology * Glossary of literary terms

Genres: Classics

80 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[Elly Wendy · Rating 3 out of 5]

What I had was an audiobook, a story, not a text. Rough subject material, hard to believe how things were. We can only hope they are better now. Very sad.

[Suzanne Skelly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pulitzer prize winner, " Beloved" is a masterpiece. A brutally powerful, mesmerizing story that is one of Morrison's finest works.

The story of Sethe. Proud and beautiful she escaped from slavery but continues to be haunted by it's heritage. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath ,this great novel is a dazzlingly achievement and spellbinding reading experience.

[Valour · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a hard book to read. It's an unflinching, unfaltering look at the damage slavery wrought (and still does) upon those men, women and children who were enslaved. It is not a comfortable book, nor one to easily read and while away some time. It is important, and should (along with Maya Angelou and Alice Walker) be mandatory for all white people to read, to acknowledge and to work damnded hard on the internalised racism of which we are all guilty.