Procne in Toni Morrison’s Beloved

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Abstract Sethe Suggs, the protagonist in Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved, is often compared to Medea. The same analogy with Colchian princess was made by contemporaries relation Margaret Garner, historical person on whose life loosely based. An enslaved African-American woman mid-nineteenth century, Garner killed her own daughter after being found former owner and styled a ‘Modern Medea’ press. Despite dislike of comparison as well its obvious asymmetries, it has become so prominent recent scholarship Beloved that tends eclipse other elements classical mythology novel. This article explores hermeneutic productivity reading Sethe’s infanticide against backdrop myth Procne Philomela.

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