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This paper seeks an answer to a few specific questions in reading Toni Morrison’s fifth novel Beloved: how different types of memory are represented, how individuals heal from unmentionable past, how does a community re-member a group that have been dismembered? And lastly, how does storytelling which requires mutual technique of telling and hearing function in the text? Morrison draws various types of memories in Beloved: an individual, vicarious and generational memory represented through Sethe, Paul D, and Denver, and also a collective and social memory which a small fictional community in Cincinnati, Ohio creates. Beloved describes how these fragmented memories are conjoined together as the pieces make parts and the parts become a whole like a patchwork quilt. Although Morrison ironically emphasizes that “it is not a story to pass on” since it is too painful to mention, still, the story needs to be told and listened to. By sharing memories and stories, Morrison presents how to unveil the traumatic past and heal it as she resurrects Margaret Garner’s voice through literature. This is the power of the narrative in which Morrison becomes a shaman author who reveals the dark history of slavery which has been shadowed and forgotten under white national amnesia.

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I. Introduction
 II. Individual Memory
 III. Collective Memory
 IV. Trauma
 V. Conclusion
 Works Cited
 Abstract

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저자

• Park, Jieun [ Ewha Womans University ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

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  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810