Toni Morrison's Beloved A Casebook

With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works ofmodern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importancefor students and scholars of American literature. This exciting new seriesassembles key documents and criticism concerning these works that have sorecently become central components of the American literature curriculum. Eachcasebook will reprint documents relating to the work's historical context andreception, present the best in critical essays, and when possible, feature aninterview of the author. The series will provide, for the first time, anaccessible forum in which readers can come to a fuller understanding of thesecontemporary masterpieces and the unique aspects of American ethnic, racial, orcultural experience that they so ably portray.This casebook to Morrison's classic novel presents seven essays that representthe best in contemporary criticism of the book. In addition, the book includes apoem and an abolitionist's tra published after a slave named Margaret Garnerkilled her child to save her from slavery--the very incident Morrisonfictionalizes in Beloved.