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Beloved (novel)

Index Beloved (novel)

Beloved is a 1987 novel by the American writer Toni Morrison. [1]

61 relations: African American Review, African Americans, African-American music, Alfred A. Knopf, American Civil War, Amiri Baraka, Angela Davis, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, Atlantic slave trade, BBC Online, BBC Radio 4, Beloved (1998 film), Chain gang, Cincinnati, Contemporary Literature (journal), Daniel Alexander Payne Murray, Dedication (publishing), Emancipation Proclamation, Epigraph (literature), Ernest J. Gaines, Eugene B. Redmond, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Indiana State University, Infanticide, Jayne Cortez, John A. Williams, John Edgar Wideman, Jonathan Demme, June Jordan, Kentucky, Library of Congress, Literary Hub, Louise Meriwether, Magic realism, Margaret Garner, Maya Angelou, National Book Award, Ohio, Oprah Winfrey, Patricia Cumper, Paule Marshall, Plantations in the American South, Publishers Weekly, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Quincy Troupe, Reconstruction era, Revenant, Romans 9, Rosa Guy, Slave states and free states, ..., Slavery in the United States, Sonia Sanchez, Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, Supernatural, The New York Times, The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Time (magazine), Toni Morrison, University of Wisconsin Press, World Book Club, 15 Minute Drama. Expand index (11 more) »

African American Review

The African American Review (AAR) is a scholarly aggregation of essays on African-American literature, theatre, film, the visual arts, and culture; interviews; poetry; fiction; and book reviews.

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African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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African-American music

African-American music is an umbrella term covering a diverse range of musics and musical genres largely developed by African Americans.

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Alfred A. Knopf

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is a New York publishing house that was founded by Alfred A. Knopf Sr. and Blanche Knopf in 1915.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays and music criticism.

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Angela Davis

Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, academic, and author.

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Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award is an American literary award dedicated to honoring written works that make important contributions to the understanding of racism and the appreciation of the rich diversity of human culture.

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Atlantic slave trade

The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas.

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BBC Online

BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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Beloved (1998 film)

Beloved is a 1998 American horror-drama film based on Toni Morrison's 1987 novel of the same name, directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, and Thandie Newton.

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Chain gang

A chain gang is a group of prisoners chained together to perform menial or physically challenging work as a form of punishment.

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Cincinnati

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Contemporary Literature (journal)

Contemporary Literature is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal which publishes interviews with notable and developing authors, scholarly essays, and reviews of recent books critiquing the contemporary literature field.

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Daniel Alexander Payne Murray

Daniel Alexander Payne Murray (1852-1925) was an American bibliographer, author, politician, and historian.

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Dedication (publishing)

A dedication is the expression of friendly connection or thanks by the author towards another person.

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Emancipation Proclamation

The Emancipation Proclamation, or Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863.

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Epigraph (literature)

In literature, an epigraph is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component.

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Ernest J. Gaines

Ernest James Gaines (born January 15, 1933) is an African-American author whose works have been taught in college classrooms and translated into many languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian and Chinese.

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Eugene B. Redmond

Eugene B. Redmond (born December 1, 1937, St. Louis)Burton, Jennifer.

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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual who currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

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Indiana State University

Indiana State University (ISU) is a public university located in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States.

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Infanticide

Infanticide (or infant homicide) is the intentional killing of infants.

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Jayne Cortez

Jayne Cortez (May 10, 1934 – December 28, 2012) was an African-American poet, activist, small press publisher and spoken-word performance artist whose voice is celebrated for its political, surrealistic and dynamic innovations in lyricism and visceral sound.

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John A. Williams

John Alfred Williams (December 5, 1925 – July 3, 2015) was an African-American author, journalist, and academic.

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John Edgar Wideman

John Edgar Wideman (born June 14, 1941) is an American writer, professor emeritus at Brown University, and sits on the contributing editorial board of the literary journal Conjunctions.

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Jonathan Demme

Robert Jonathan Demme (February 22, 1944 – April 26, 2017) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.

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June Jordan

June Millicent Jordan (July 9, 1936 – June 14, 2002) was a Caribbean-American poet, essayist, teacher, and activist.

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Kentucky

Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

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Literary Hub

Literary Hub is a daily literary website that launched in 2015 by Grove Atlantic president and publisher Morgan Entrekin, American Society of Magazine Editors Hall of Fame editor Terry McDonell, and Electric Literature founder Andy Hunter.

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Louise Meriwether

Louise Meriwether (born May 8, 1923) is an American novelist, essayist, journalist and activist, as well as a writer of biographies of historically important African Americans for children.

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Magic realism

Magical realism, magic realism, or marvelous realism is a genre of narrative fiction and, more broadly, art (literature, painting, film, theatre, etc.) that, while encompassing a range of subtly different concepts, expresses a primarily realistic view of the real world while also adding or revealing magical elements.

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Margaret Garner

Margaret Garner (called "Peggy") was an enslaved African-American woman in pre-Civil War America who was notorious – or celebrated – for killing her own daughter rather than allowing the child to be returned to slavery.

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Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist.

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National Book Award

The National Book Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards.

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Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States.

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Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist.

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Patricia Cumper

Patricia Cumper, MBE, FRSA (born 1954), also known as Pat Cumper, is a British playwright, producer, director, theatre administrator, critic and commentator.

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Paule Marshall

Paule Marshall (born April 9, 1929) is an American author, best known for her 1959 novel Brown Girl, Brownstones.

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Plantations in the American South

Plantations were an important aspect of the history of the American South, particularly the antebellum (pre-American Civil War) era.

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Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents.

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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Quincy Troupe

Quincy Thomas Troupe, Jr. (born July 22, 1939) is an American poet, editor, journalist and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla, California.

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Reconstruction era

The Reconstruction era was the period from 1863 (the Presidential Proclamation of December 8, 1863) to 1877.

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Revenant

A revenant is a visible ghost or animated corpse that is believed to have revived from death to haunt the living.

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Romans 9

Romans 9 is the ninth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.

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Rosa Guy

Rosa Cuthbert Guy (September 1, 1922Margalit Fox,, New York Times, June 7, 2012. – June 3, 2012) was a Trinidad-born American writer who grew up in the New York metropolitan area.

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Slave states and free states

In the history of the United States, a slave state was a U.S. state in which the practice of slavery was legal, and a free state was one in which slavery was prohibited or being legally phased out.

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Slavery in the United States

Slavery in the United States was the legal institution of human chattel enslavement, primarily of Africans and African Americans, that existed in the United States of America in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Sonia Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez (born Wilsonia Benita Driver; September 9, 1934) is an African-American poet most often associated with the Black Arts Movement.

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Sullivan's Island, South Carolina

Sullivan's Island is a town and island in Charleston County, South Carolina, United States, at the entrance to Charleston Harbor, with a population of 1,791 at the 2010 census.

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Supernatural

The supernatural (Medieval Latin: supernātūrālis: supra "above" + naturalis "natural", first used: 1520–1530 AD) is that which exists (or is claimed to exist), yet cannot be explained by laws of nature.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States

The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) is a scholarly society established in 1974.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931) is an American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher, and professor emeritus at Princeton University.

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University of Wisconsin Press

The University of Wisconsin Press (sometimes abbreviated as UW Press) is a non-profit university press publishing peer-reviewed books and journals.

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World Book Club

World Book Club is a radio programme on the BBC World Service.

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15 Minute Drama

15 Minute Drama, previously known as Woman's Hour Drama, is a BBC Radio 4 Arts and Drama production.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beloved_(novel)

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