The Beloved Paradise PDF
By:Melanie R. Anderson
Published on 2009 by
Abstract: Of Toni Morrison's novels, Beloved (1987) would appear to be the only |ghost story,| but spectral presences and places abound in her work. In this dissertation, I explore how Morrison uses specters in her fiction in order to presence African American culture and history. According to Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, |haunting indicates that, beneath the surface of received history, there lurks another narrative| (Spectral America 5). In order to retrieve this narrative of lived African American history, Morrison peoples her novels with spectral figures that function as bridges, connecting individuals to their personal and cultural histories. I analyze Morrison's specters in the contexts of Latin American magical realism and of the African American literary tradition and through the critical lens of poststructuralism (in particular Derrida's theories of hauntology and spectrality). Deconstructing fixed Western binaries, I argue that the spectral plays a double role: it indicates power through its transcendence of corporality, temporality, and explication, and it also serves as a metaphor of erasure for characters who are dismissed by society and |ghosted,| even though they are alive. The metaphor of the ghosted individual signals the absence of these people and their stories from the larger Western-oriented historical narrative, and it is the haunting of the specter that |unghosts| these elided individuals and creates links among past and present, life and death, and generations. Through the metaphoric power and the poststructural binary-dissolving possibilities of the specter, Morrison pursues her cultural work of presencing the actual lived experience of African American history in America and those individuals who lived it.
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