Othering the Mother: Traumatic Effects of Motherhood on the Formation of Identity in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
Othering the Mother: Traumatic Effects of Motherhood on the Formation of Identity in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77506 | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree. | en_US |
| dc.format | Monograph | |
| dc.format.medium | Electronic Resource | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY. | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dcterms.abstract | As a text based heavily on tropes from both American Gothic literature and the slave narrative genre, Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved serves as a complex and delicate commentary on racial ambiguities and the psychologically haunting effects of African American trauma. These ambiguities simultaneously serve as reasons for and consequences of the various traumas that strain the interpersonal relationships between the female characters. Aside from the most blatant and gruesome trauma of the novel—the infanticide that Sethe commits as an act of mercy for her unnamed child—many of the recurring traumatic memories evoke the challenges of motherhood during slavery. | |
| dcterms.abstract | As a text based heavily on tropes from both American Gothic literature and the slave narrative genre, Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved serves as a complex and delicate commentary on racial ambiguities and the psychologically haunting effects of African American trauma. These ambiguities simultaneously serve as reasons for and consequences of the various traumas that strain the interpersonal relationships between the female characters. Aside from the most blatant and gruesome trauma of the novel—the infanticide that Sethe commits as an act of mercy for her unnamed child—many of the recurring traumatic memories evoke the challenges of motherhood during slavery. | |
| dcterms.available | 2017-09-20T16:52:50Z | |
| dcterms.contributor | Thompson, Roger | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Scheckel, Susan | en_US |
| dcterms.creator | Greco, Gabriella Elizabeth | |
| dcterms.dateAccepted | 2017-09-20T16:52:50Z | |
| dcterms.dateSubmitted | 2017-09-20T16:52:50Z | |
| dcterms.description | Department of English | en_US |
| dcterms.extent | 39 pg. | en_US |
| dcterms.format | Monograph | |
| dcterms.format | Application/PDF | en_US |
| dcterms.identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77506 | |
| dcterms.issued | 2016-12-01 | |
| dcterms.language | en_US | |
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| dcterms.publisher | The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY. | |
| dcterms.subject | Beloved, Morrison, Motherhood, Othering, Trauma | |
| dcterms.subject | English literature -- African American studies | |
| dcterms.title | Othering the Mother: Traumatic Effects of Motherhood on the Formation of Identity in Toni Morrison’s Beloved | |
| dcterms.title | Othering the Mother: Traumatic Effects of Motherhood on the Formation of Identity in Toni Morrison’s Beloved | |
| dcterms.type | Thesis |
