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“124 was spiteful. Full of a baby’s venom.”
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Beloved, a moving story about slavery
While writing The Black Book in the 1970s, Toni Morrison discovered the story of Margaret Garner, a black slave from Kentucky who escaped her condition by joining the free state of Ohio in 1856. She reads her story in an article entitled A Visit to the Slave Mother who Killed Her Child. Along with fifteen of her fellow slaves, Margaret tries to escape her pursuers and decides to murder her daughter so that she will never know the condition of a slave.
A drama along the Ohio River
In 1987, the author published Beloved, inspired by this tragic event. She then sets her plot not far from the Ohio River, at 124 Bluestone Road in Cincinnati in 1873. A place that no longer exists today. The reader enters this modest house imbued with the curse of Sethe’s baby. The house is haunted by the ghost of Beloved. Beloved, a term engraved on the tombstone of the deceased. Beloved, eighteen years later, arriving at Sethe’s house…
Each chapter begins with a personified description of the house: “124 was spiteful”, “124 was noisy”, “124 was quiet”…
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Toni Morrison, major American author
Beloved is Toni Morrison’s fifth novel, making her known internationally. This book remained number 1 for 25 weeks in 1987, and was adapted into a film by Jonathan Demme two years later with Oprah Winfrey in the role of Sethe. Despite the success and the theme of slavery, it was banned in 2021 in a Virginia county under pressure from the Republican Party.
Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 for “who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality.”.
Ohio River
A major tributary of the Mississippi, the Ohio River is one of the great rivers of the eastern United States.
Meaning “Beautiful River” in Seneca, an Iroquoian language, its watershed covers more than 490,000 km2. As its flow direction was westward, the Ohio was an ideal passage for pioneers heading west. The river separated the northern states from the Confederate states, as the novels of Toni Morrison and Harriet Beecher point out. Many slaves tried to cross it to become free. The Ohio River carries the largest volume of water of any tributary of the Mississippi. The most important cities on its banks are Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Louisville.
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TOKYO map of 100 cult places [French Edition]
Tokyo as you have never seen it before. Except through the legendary heroes and heroines of pop culture! Get off the beaten track and discover Hayao Miyazaki’s city through your favorite movies, series, music, comics, novels and video games!
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