Body Narrative in Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'

Essay from the year 2016 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: University, , course: Afro-American Literature, language: English, abstract: The physical body is what acts as a mirror to one's life's experiences. Once the experiences have been lived through, they become memory- intangible, yet very substantial. The body imagery in the novel has a narrative to put forth. In the process of 'restorying', Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' inks out the harrowing experience of slavery by utilizing the female body as a narrative space. This unconventional method denotes to the denigrated treatment of the enslaved masses - especially the doubly marginalized black women, whose violated bodies become a bloody canvas upon which unspeakable atrocities stamp life-long reminders.

The author is elected President of the Kinnaird College Debating Fraternity and also the President of the Youth Development Corporations-Kinnaird Chapter. She writes in the leading newspapers of Pakistan: The Nation and The News. On occasion, she features the happenings in Lahore related to Arts and Literature. In the past, she has worked as an Assistant-Editorialist to the Editor-in-Chief at the News on Sunday. She has also been an active member of the Children's Museum for Peace and Human Rights, Karachi.