The Tragic Destiny of the Black under the Slavery— An Analysis of Beloved from the Theory of Space文献综述

 2022-08-15 10:41:19

The Tragic Destiny of the Black under the Slavery

——An Analysis of Beloved from the Theory of Space

Abstract: The famous contemporary African American woman writer, Toni Morrison, describes the story of a haunted house which is called 124 and the people live in it which consists of Sethe, Denver, Beloved, Paul D, and Baby Suggs. The novel mainly focuses on the reason, the process, and the influence of the infanticide with the recollection of the protagonists. In the form of art, the novel shows the sparkles of humanity as well as the tragic destiny of the blacks under the slavery.

This essay focuses on the study of space in Beloved to analyze the tragic destiny and the psychic trauma that slavery leaves to the black people. The paper mainly analyzes from two physical spaces. The first one is the space of home, which consists of the features of houses and the relationship inside the space of home. The second one is the space of community, which mainly analyzes the relationship between the inhabitants of 124 and the community they locates.

Keywords: Toni Morrison; space; black people; slavery

1. Literary Review

1.1 Research Background

Beloved is Morrisonrsquo;s fifth work from which she turns to the history of black people. She explores the painful history in Beloved that people do not want to mention. And she wrote “sixty million and more” on the title page of Beloved which aims not only to comfort the dead black slaves but also to help modern readers to understand the destruction of the black people who live under slavery.

Generally speaking, the researches on Morrison mainly focused on her identity as an African-American female writer. The discussions which surrounded this topic basically included ethnic, gender, cultural, and literary traditions. Until the early Twenty-first century, the study on space of Morrisonrsquo;s novels began since the “spatial turn” occurred in the academia in the end of the Twentieth century. Many spatial critics are deeply influenced by Henri Lefebvre and Michel Foucault who are two important scholars of spatial criticism. As a result, a new angle to study Beloved came into being. Many scholars were interested in using the space theory and generally speaking they tended to study a specific space in the novel such as home, kitchen, closet, etc.

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