Beloved

Morrison's novel of a mother haunted by the daughter she killed rather than see returned to slavery.

Specifications & Metrics

author

Toni Morrison

type

Postmodern / historical novel

era

Contemporary (1987)

language

English

setting

Cincinnati, Ohio, 1870s

parts

3 parts

Relative Scale in Novels

Core Principles & Analysis

• Loosely based on the case of Margaret Garner, an escaped woman who killed her child in 1856.
• It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988.
• Morrison received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Beloved (novel)