Leseprobe
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Historical Background
2.1 The Middle Passage and the Following Work Exploitation in the New World
2.2 Sexual Exploitation: Breeding and Rape
3. Dehumanization and Degradation through Sexual Abuse
3.2 Beloved’s Ambiguous Fate, and Ella and ‘the Lowest Yet’
3.3 Sethe’s Humiliation through Schoolteacher
4. Mothers and Daughters
4.1 Sethe’s Dysfunctional Relationship to Her Mother
4.2 Sethe’s Overly ‘Thick’ Love for Her Children
5. Women and the Community
5.1 Baby Suggs’s Disrupted Family and Her Importance for the Community
5.2 Sethe’s Role as Head of the Nuclear Family
6. Love and Sexuality
6.1 Slavery’s Notions of Love and Sexuality and the Male and Female Trauma
6.2 Paul D’s Significance for Sethe’s Recovery Process
7. Conclusion
8. Bibliography
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- Linda Schädler (Autor:in), 2012, Embarking on a Journey of Self-Possession. Women and Slavery in Toni Morrison's "Beloved", München, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/274936
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