T. Selvakkumar
Toni Morrison (1931), a Nobel laureate, has attained a central place in the American literary world. Black identity, the supernatural and spiritual elements in Toni Morrison’s Beloved is the underlying theme of paper. Through the account of her novels, she shows several ways in which slavery, one of the most oppressive period in the black history has affected the identity of Afro-American. Beloved a novel is called as an unambiguous work of literature. It describes the circumstances of the slave mother and it also puts forth the religious and supernatural and spiritual points of the Afro-Americans at the time. Slavery was a great issue at that time and brought attention to the readers. The novel has supernatural elements like ghosts. An invisible being inside the house brings chaos in the house and causes Sethe’s two sons Howard and Buglar to runaway. Beloved the central character a girl seems to be another ghost. Critics always saw Beloved as the incarnation of Sethe’s murdered daughter. Sethe’s has been absolved of her crime, as she has served time in the penitentiary. In Toni Morrison’s fictions one can clearly see that the commitment to ethnocentricity, collective experience advocated by Black Aesthetic Theory. The present paper will analysis Black identity, the supernatural and spiritual elements in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.
Black, Beloved, ghosts, supernatural, spiritual.