Body Marks of the Past in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Home
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 p...
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Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
2021-07-01
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| Series: | Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory |
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| Online Access: | https://www.metacriticjournal.com/article/187/body-marks-of-the-past-in-toni-morrisons-a-mercy-and-home |