I believed her' ' led and we followed, and she showed us the beauty of the language, and the power that was unleashed when that beauty was allied to a great heart and a ferocious mind' 'No other writer in my lifetime, or perhaps ever, has married so completely an understanding of the structures of power with knowledge of the human heart' 'Toni Morrison is the greatest chronicler of the American experience that we have ever known' 'Morrison is, to me, the best writer the English-speaking world has ever seen' 'Morrison's legacy in commemorating slavery's survivors will endure and uplift for centuries to come' 'Her every word a caress, her every sentence an embrace, her every paragraph, a cupping of her hands around our faces that said: I know you, I see you, we are together' 'I have never read anyone else like her. I admired the way she occupied her space in the world. Beloved is a heartbreaking testimony to the ongoing ravages of slavery, and should be read by all' 'I adored her honesty. The novel reveals the price to be paid for confronting wounds that will never heal and remembering nightmares.'Toni Morrison was a giant of her times and ours. When tracked down by her old master, who wanted to “get his property back”, she had decided to kill her children to save them from a life of slavery. While on the run, she had lost her husband and other companions, giving birth to her daughter, Denver, with the help of a young white girl.
Twenty years earlier, while heavily pregnant, Sethe had run away from the plantation on which she was being forced to work as a slave. When an old acquaintance, Paul D., turns up to see Sethe, a flood of memories is unleashed. Her house, once the beating heart of the neighborhood’s black community, is now haunted by the ghost of Sethe’s first-born daughter, who drives out every living thing and turns Sethe’s own existence into a living death. Sethe, a former slave, is living there with her daughter Denver. The novel opens at 124 Bluestone Road, Cincinnati, shortly after the Civil War. Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987 published in German as Menschenkind) is a key literary text dealing with the question of how the ghosts of the past still haunt the present. A pressing issue at the time was the impact of slavery on the present day and how this violent history of human rights abuse continues to shape educational institutions, social relations, economic conditions and religions. I spent twelve years of my life working as a theologian in the USA.
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