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Article: Creating a Feminist-Communitarian Romanticism in Beloved: Toni Morrison's New Uses for Blake, Keats, and Wordsworth.(Critical Essay)
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- Papers on Language & Literature
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- June 22, 2000
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Despite the large secondary literature on Beloved, critics have still not done full justice to the variety of sources Toni Morrison re-envisions as she reconstitutes her manifold cultural heritage. In particular, she devises fascinating strategies, none of them yet noted, for re-creating British romanticism. Simply to list a few of Beloved's major episodes--ice skating, boat stealing, gigantic shadow, carnival "freak" show, water-voices sounding the depths--is almost to create a rapidly scrolled plot synopsis of Wordsworth's Prelude. When Baby Suggs declares that the only grace we will receive is the grace we can "imagine," or when Sethe tells how Paul D's visionary ...
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Article: A Beloved Film
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October 15, 1998 ;
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... ... screen chemistry and is part of Beloved's success. Beah Richards (Guess ... s deceased mother-in-law, Baby Suggs. Through flashbacks, the audience ... Her role is essential to conveying Beloved's message, which she reveals exquisitely ...
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