Beloved

Description:

Because of Beloved's concern with violence committted both against and within african american communities, the novel can be read as an intervention in two distinct but related debates on American histories of race... The neoconservative and Reaganist polemics of the 1980s.... the liberal politics of the war on poverty. What Beloved suggests is that tomorrow is made possible by the knowledge of yesterday, a knowledge that for contemporary African Americans can be gained from imaging what it was like to walk in the flesh of their slave ancestors. VIVA MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS presents the best current criticism on the most widely read and studied poems, novels and dramas of the Western world, from Oedipus Rex and the Iliad to such modern and contemporary works as William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Don Delillo's White Noise.

Target Audience:

Students of Literature, English Departments & Libraries.