The Denial of Motherhood in Beloved and Crossing the River : A Postcolonial Literary Study of How the Institution of Slavery Has Restricted Motherhood for Centuries

The aim of this essay is to explore motherhood in two postcolonial literary works by African American author Toni Morrison and British author Caryl Phillips, who was born in the Caribbean. The essay is based on Morrison’s award winning novel Beloved, which was published in 1987 and was inspired by t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wike, Sofia
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Högskolan i Gävle, Engelska 2017
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-23447