The Use of Ghosts in Beloved and Beyond the Limbo Silence

The Use of Ghosts in Beloved and Beyond the Limbo Silence

Toni Morrison and Elizabeth Nunez

LAP Lambert Academic Publishing ( 2010-05-19 )

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In the face of the loss of familial bonds founded in New World slavery, the African-American Toni Morrison and the Caribbean Elizabeth Nunez reverse the rupture of history and identity by a reinvention of the mother daughter relationship. The distinct hauntings dramatized in Beloved and Beyond the Limbo Silence are founded in the Yoruba tradition brought from West Africa. This study demonstrates the efficacy of ghost mother interactions as a vitalizing method toward the healing of historical trauma and identity. Ghosts in therapeutic roles confirm the authoritative and historiographic power that the writers may conjure.

Book Details:

ISBN-13:

978-3-8383-6248-9

ISBN-10:

3838362489

EAN:

9783838362489

Book language:

English

By (author) :

Milagros Rivera

Number of pages:

76

Published on:

2010-05-19

Category:

Psychology