Richie and Beloved's Narrative Haunting in Beloved and Sing, Unburied, Sing: Salvage the Stories to Salve the Ghosts
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Madeline ColeDate
2020
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Richie and Beloved's Narrative Haunting in Beloved and Sing, Unburied, Sing: Salvage the Stories to Salve the GhostsAbstract
In the cosmos of Ward and Morrison, ghosts are literal metaphors of traumatic memories that emerge from holes – the unspeakable – in stories. When Sethe and River tell Beloved and Richie stories full circle, the ghosts’ bodies, as well as their verbal patterns, change, and I argue this change signifies their identity’s trajectory from wrecked to salvaged, forgotten to remembered, dehumanized to humanized.Collections