Beloved by Toni Morrison

 

 

Element	Value	Value Standard
dc.title	Beloved
dc.creator	Morrison, Toni
dc.subject	Slavery—United States; African American Women—Fiction; Infanticide—Fiction	LCSH
dc.description	Former slave Sethe can’t escape the ghosts of her past, including the ghost of her infant daughter, Beloved.
dc.publisher	Vintage International
dc.contributor	Toni Morrison
dc.date	06-08-2004	W3CDTF
dc.type	Text	DCMIType
dc.format	Softcover book, 321 pages, 5.2 x 0.7 x 8 in.
dc.identifier	ISBN-13 978-1400033416 Original edition: PS3563.08749B4 1987
dc.source	http://www.amazon.com/Beloved-Toni-Morrison/dp/1400033411/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1461603890&sr=8-1&keywords=beloved
dc.language	en-US	RFC4646
dc.relation	Beloved by Toni Morrison; originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York: 1987
dc.coverage	1987-2004
dc.rights	All rights reserved

 

Former slave Sethe has escaped from slavery in Kentucky to freedom in Ohio. When Sethe is tracked down after only a month of freedom, she kills her two-year-old daughter rather than let her be taken back into a life of slavery. Years later, Sethe is once again living in Ohio when a young woman calling herself Beloved shows up on her doorstep…a woman who might be Sethe’s daughter. This haunting story of guilt, freedom, and slavery has frequently been banned and challenged due to accusations of “violence, sexual content, and discussion of bestiality” (Banned Books Week).

 

Works cited: “Banned Books That Shaped America.” Bannedbooksweek.org. Web. 25 Apr. 2016. http://www.bannedbooksweek.org/censorship/bannedbooksthatshapedamerica