What is the connectivity between Beloved and what is produced between the confronting of the past between not just Sethe but all the characters. What is the equal sign and ending goal of Beloved’s character, what is concluded by the meaning of her character and what is brought out from the other characters through her.
“(Futher instructions). I’m attaching some readings that I think will help you in your efforts to write your final papers. The chapter is from my book, Impossible Stories: On the Space and Time of Black Destructive Creation, and it thinks about “rememory” in a unique way that might help you a bit. The piece by Patrice Douglass and Frank Wilderson makes you rethink the nature of “trauma” as it pertains to Black folk, and I think that’s quite interesting given what you both brought up. The third one is an article I spend a lot of time with in the first part of the chapter, “Venus in Two Acts,” by Saidiya Hartman, and is maybe less directly related. Finally, I’m linking you to Toni Morrison’s own “Nobel Lecture,” delivered when she accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1993/morrison/lecture/. It’s mostly about the nature of language, but it could be useful for you.
Lastly, if you want another medium altogether, check out The Pieces I Am, the documentary about Toni Morrison’s life and work. Maybe there’s something there for you to pull from. Also, and maybe equally useful, is the documentary, In Our Mothers’ Gardens, in which multiple Black women engage in conversations about generational trauma, self-care, and honoring the past their own way. I’d say that’s definitely a good watch, and either documentary is something you can feel free to cite and engage as if you would a text.”