Morrison’s Beloved: A Portrait of the African Female Slave

Abstract

Toni Morrison is a name in American Literature not to be mentioned without a feeling of wonder and admiration for her adoption of a strikingly original approach to novel- writing which caters to the needs of different genres of writers and has created a great upheaval among innumerable intellectual readers. This tremendously gifted novelist, a Nobel Prize winner, ventured to impart historical authenticity to the unrecorded sorrows of the black African slave in an American backdrop before the outbreak of the Civil war (1861-1865) with great success, Her Beloved under our discussion is a wonderfully successful novel permeated with a panorama of the painful history of the miserable slaves especially that of the women, the narrative of which has been enriched with a mysterious handling of fantasy deep rooted in the black folklore and her family tradition of story-telling.