Why can Beloved be studied through the prism "Memories and legacies"?

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Beloved appears to create many connections within the theme of “Mémoire: héritages et ruptures” as the author focus on the individual footprint and inheritage of black slavery in the United States. Across the personal story of a fictional character named Sethe, we meet the true heavy burden of slaves' collective memory. While in most textbooks, the topic has been mostly introduced from the white viewpoint, we deal here with the confused and painful black memory recollection. The novel embraces thus a mixed style of realism, supernatural and typical black folklore to create a unique kind of individual as well as collective remembrance of these “sixty million and more” slaves whose suffering individual paths remain closed and are here mentioned by Morrison who dedicates her novel to them. The sensitive approach of the characters' fate generates a close interaction with the protagonist's trauma, guilt and fate.

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[...] These two perspectives are crossed along the narratives and often presented as a double-punishment. When Morrison writes " If you ask a Negro where he's been, he'll tell you where he's going", she accurately accounts for some cultural doom within the black inherited culture in which resignation and fate are inextricably linked. Womanhood is also depicted as a fragment of complication, mostly due to motherhood rigid constraints in Beloved and restricted choices. In both cases, they just offer some limited horizons. [...]

[...] These two perspectives are crossed along the narratives and often presented as a double-punishment. When Morrison writes " If you ask a Negro where he's been, he'll tell you where he's going", she accurately accounts for some cultural doom within the black inherited culture in which resignation and fate are inextricably linked. Womanhood is also depicted as a fragment of complication, mostly due to motherhood rigid constraints in Beloved and restricted choices. In both cases, they just offer some limited horizons. [...]

[...] It also changes the tenses from past to present as if the past is not a real past and they cannot move forward. "Me and you we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow" is mentioned in the Chapter . of the novel. With this assertion, Sethe takes a look back at her long, heavy and painful past as a slave and considers some escape or brighter future, however, admitting with the restrictive "some kind of" the difficulty of this reconstructing path which is still to be determined. [...]

[...] Why can Beloved be studied through the prism "Memories and legacies"? 150-300 words Beloved appears to create many connections within the theme of "Mémoire: héritages et ruptures" as the author focus on the individual footprint and inheritage of black slavery in the United States. Across the personal story of a fictional character named Sethe, we meet the true heavy burden of slaves' collective memory. While in most textbooks, the topic has been mostly introduced from the white viewpoint, we deal here with the confused and painful black memory recollection. [...]