ENG140Y1 Lecture 10: 10 Beloved 3
Document Summary
Beloved and the diaspora: triad of voices: individual & collective experience, 60 million and more: dif cult journey from africa to the new world. Very dangerous journey; cramped, terrible conditions: diaspora: scattering, scattered people, their locations. The creation of the black diaspora: community with a lost home : unspeakable thoughts, unspoken: the noises from outside the house, the noises women make alone with their work, perhaps. Not just women"s voices, but something more: an indecipherable language, the black and angry deadv. Beloved"s punctuation-less monologue: an account of the slave trade. Eventually, this goes from haven to nightmare: sethe is eventually made to explain the past, her suffering, beloved starts to take, consume everything. Dangers of forgetting & the desire to isolate, to be silent: an alternative: denver and the community women. Justice is not a destination but a never-ending process comme derrida.
