Sethe’s gift of death : a reading of responsibility in beloved.
To a modern reader, the reality of slavery that Toni Morrison describes in “Beloved” is foreign and incomprehensible. It is convenient for us to categorise Sethe as being immoral in order to avoid contemplating a reality where the killing of a baby could be an acceptable act of survival. Yet this is...
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Main Author: | Ong, Nicole Sihui. |
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Other Authors: | School of Humanities and Social Sciences |
Format: | Final Year Project |
Language: | English |
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2011
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/44785 |
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