Toni Morrison: Beloved

With excerpts from interviews and reviews, an exploration of the historical documents and slave narrative traditions on which Morrison drew, andan insightful juxtaposition of psychoanalytic and postcolonial approaches to the novel, this guide places Beloved in the contexts of Morrison'soeuvre and other works of African American literature. Chapters focus on the supernatural elements of the work, as well as the author's treatmentof the physical self.