A Feminist Reading to Toni Morrison’s Beloved: Mothering under the Atrocities of Slavery
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2019
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UNIVERSITY OF ABBES LAGHROUR-KHENCHELA
Abstract
Abstract:
The black literature is the treatment of the experiences and the history of the African
Americans, especially the Afro-American woman who passed through a lot of obstacles and
problems in her life to rich an important position over the world. By the coming of feminism
the black woman gets a new image and portrays and becomes a queen, president, teacher and
also doctor.In this dissertation we shed a light on the African American literature and more
specifically a novel entitled Beloved written by the Black or the Afro-American writer Toni
Morrison, who takes in his novel a real life story of a former slave, who suffer the pain of
slavery and its conditions, which push her to escape and to kill her own daughter in order to
save and prevent her from the same slave life under worst conditions. In this work we try to
realize the mother-children relationship under slavery and racial and sexual discrimination
and how the black mother struggle to protect her children, in addition to her ability to live
with the ghost of her murder daughter, also in this research we shed a light on the effects of
slavery on the main female characters of the novel mentally, psychologically and physically
because under slavery they were mistreated, oppressed and marginalized. Finally we search
about the causes of the emergence of the murder daughter who called Beloved. The main
conclusion drawn from this research is that the ability of the black women to make a balance
between several role in a worst society, the roles of the mother, daughter, wife and also the
hard worker.