Motherhood from Infanticide in Beloved
Lin Xiao-yong
Abstract
Lin Xiao-yong
Abstract
Beloved is Toni Morrison's novel that wins her the Nobel Prize for literature.It remains a triumph with its unique artistic charm.Toni Morrison exposes us another kind of motherhood of the black mother based on the double inferior identity——racial and sexual,especially in that anti-humanistic background of slavery before the abolition through the tragedy of infanticide.Beloved critiques traditional attitudes toward motherhood as desperate and destructive.
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Beloved is Toni Morrison's novel that wins her the Nobel Prize for literature.It remains a triumph with its unique artistic charm.Toni Morrison exposes us another kind of motherhood of the black mother based on the double inferior identity——racial and sexual,especially in that anti-humanistic background of slavery before the abolition through the tragedy of infanticide.Beloved critiques traditional attitudes toward motherhood as desperate and destructive.
Key concepts: Tragedy (event), Humanism, Identity (music), Gender studies, Charm (quantum number), Sociology, Double standard, Psychoanalysis