Leyendo Beloved de Toni Morrison en Salvage the Bones y Sing, Unburied, Sing de Jesmyn Ward

Drawing on Harold Bloom’s concept of factility or the unavoidable influence texts that run through cultural legacy African diaspora, this article examines intertextual relationship between Morrison’s Beloved and Ward’s Salvage Bones Sing, Unburied, Sing. In Bones, Ward engages with to retell myth Medea rethink black motherhood keep interrogating questions self-definition sense community aiming offer a more nuanced understanding women’s reality under sundry layers oppression. Sing rereads plunge into importance diasporic memory its role in fostering familial bonds healing. This is done by using Morrisonian trope ghost(s) resulting traumatic wounds exemplify manifold ways which collective has historically kept communities Americans together. exercise exposes way novels continue examine account violent slavery new practices American families from past present.