Zusammenfassung der Ressource
BELOVED
- Single frame
- Symbolic
- Crossing of genre's and styles
- 3rd person to interior monologue
- multiple viewpoints
- limited perspective
- Slaves become a 'powerful presence'
- Interwines mythic, folk and poetic threads
- Creates an identity for the slaves
- Makes the reader work hard
- readers play an active role
- Beloved's identity remains a mystery
- construct their own meaning
- themes of slavery, supernatural and memories
- Black culture and society
- Subtle hints throughout
- '124 was spiteful' 3 is missing (dead child)
- 1987
- America
- After the American Civil War (1861)
- traditional attitude to women
- fiction and history
- Paradox of realistic unrealism
- depressive
- shifts between the past and present
- difficult to distinguish between reality and fiction
- blurring of the truth
- presents the problems of fredom and equality for black people
- reconstructing the past
- psychological and emotional elements of 'blackness'
- characters are defined by racial barriers
- main characters-Sethe, Paul D, Beloved & Denver
- reconstructs the idea of slavery
- stream of consciousness
- THEMES
- breakdown of space and time
- flashbacks
- paranoia
- constant worry of Beloved's ghost
- Christian associations
- symbolism
- constrasting settings
- Sweet home Kentucky
- 124 Bluestone Road