ENG140Y1 Lecture 9: 09 Beloved 2
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Interaction of reader and text: a catalyst which can allow us to relate/remember, this history has been disremembered. The characters and the audience try not to remember. Paul d choses not to remember; sethe tries not to remember but does. Morrisons" neologisms, since language is insuf cient to describe slavery: rememory: tangible, part of history, not controllable. Who is beloved: changes the relationship between characters and each other, their past. Beloved craves hearing stories about the past. Beloved compels sethe to speak about the past. The character of denver: denver never experienced slavery, unlike the others, represents a generation of non-slave black americans, active, engaged reading; denver loving the story of her birth. Self-re exive narrator: calling attention to the act of writing/narrating. Denver telling the story to beloved: she begins to understand the experience through telling; as beloved listened the monologue became a duet.
