BELOVED While encountering Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved for the first time, many readers experience extreme difficulty following the text. We know that 124 Bluestone Road is said to be haunted, but “haunted” is a word much thrown around in literature; one can be said to have “haunted eyes”, for example, or to speak in a “haunted” manner. In this context, it simply means, “charged with meaning,” or perhaps “imbued with a sense of doom.” Morrison …showed first 75 words of 1294 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1294 total…been suppressed for so long that its streams automatically take a circuitous path. Women’s true stories, as many feminists point out, often have to be reassembled from fragments to form a new pattern that one can tell. In Beloved, Morrison gives this phenomenon a name -- “re-memory” -- and shows how events constructed this way become truer rather than more false, as the metaphorical footprints can fit anybody who puts their feet into them.