Beloved : a novel

Resource Information

The work Beloved : a novel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Beloved : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

by Toni Morrison ; [with a new foreword by the author]

Creator

• Morrison, Toni

Author

• Morrison, Toni

Subject

• Infanticide
• Historical fiction
• Fiction
• African American women -- Fiction
• Historical fiction
• Infanticide -- Fiction
• Women slaves
• Women slaves -- Fiction
• Ohio
• Ohio -- Fiction
• Fiction
• African American women
• Historical fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Historical fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Set after the American Civil War (1861-1865), the novel is inspired by the story of an African American slave, Margaret Garner, who escaped slavery in Kentucky late January 1856 by fleeing to Ohio, a free state. In the novel, the protagonist Sethe is also a slave who escapes slavery, running to Cincinnati, Ohio. After twenty-eight days of freedom, a posse arrives to retrieve her and her children under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which gave slave owners the right to pursue slaves across state borders. Sethe kills her two-year-old daughter rather than allow her to be recaptured and taken back to Sweet Home, the Kentucky plantation from which Sethe recently fled. A woman presumed to be her daughter, called Beloved, returns years later to haunt Sethe's home at 124 Bluestone Road, Cincinnati, Ohio

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3563.O8749

LC item number

B4 2004

Literary form

novels