Body Marks of the Past in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Home
Body Marks of the Past in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Home
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Cluj-Napoca: Babeș-Bolyai University
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Cluj-Napoca: Babeș-Bolyai University
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Toni Morrison’s project of reimagining individual memories of the African American past has been immortalized by the image of the chokecherry tree of scar tissue on Sethe’s back in Beloved. Invisible and dumb for Sethe, the scars have to be faced and interpreted with the help of others in order to process traumatic memories of the slave past. The i...
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Body Marks of the Past in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Home
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TN_cdi_ceeol_journals_964392
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_ceeol_journals_964392
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2457-8827
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2457-8827
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10.24193/mjcst.2021.11.10
