| Toni Morrison (1931), an American writer, enjoys a | | | | Themes in The Novel: |
| good position as one of the most popular as well as | | | | The novel deals with many complex and enduring |
| successful black female writers. Her work celebrates | | | | themes such as black Americans' relationship to |
| the black experience by way of featuring mythic | | | | slavery, the quest for individual, cultural identity, the |
| elements, compassion with the humanity in poetic | | | | importance of family and community, the nature of |
| language. Her fifth novel Beloved (1987), which is | | | | humanity. It is because of Morrison's unique treatment |
| remarkable for its depth, brilliance and universal appeal, | | | | to these themes her work achieve universality. |
| won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. She also won the | | | | Morrison's Style in the Novel: |
| Nobel Prize in literature in 1993. | | | | Beloved is considered as Morrison's most successful |
| What is the Novel All About? | | | | novel. She makes use of multiple timeframe. She |
| The novel Beloved is the story of Sethe, an | | | | beautifully makes a way for the fantastic occurrences |
| unfortunate mother who prefers killing her daughter | | | | in the novel like that of reappearance of Beloved. The |
| Beloved rather than letting her grown up as a slave. | | | | language is poetic which shows her lyric storytelling |
| This tale is set in Reconstruction Ohio. Morrison vividly | | | | ability very clearly. |
| sketches the dark picture of slavery and its | | | | Though the novel stimulated considerable controversy, |
| dehumanizing effects with all mental and physical | | | | accusations of racism, several months after its |
| traumas inflicted on the survivals. She beautifully | | | | publication, it's a great piece of work one should really |
| weaves a ghostly stale in a realistic narrative. | | | | appreciate for its merit. |