Beloved

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novel

"Beloved" is a critically acclaimed novel by Toni Morrison that explores the haunting legacy of slavery through the story of a formerly enslaved woman and her family.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	novel →
adaptation	Beloved (1998 film) →
adaptationCastMember	Danny Glover → Oprah Winfrey → Thandiwe Newton →
adaptationDirector	Jonathan Demme →
adaptationType	film adaptation →
author	Toni Morrison →
awardReceived	Anisfield-Wolf Book Award → Pulitzer Prize for Fiction → Robert F. Kennedy Book Award →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
criticalReception	critically acclaimed →
followedBy	Jazz →
genre	African-American literature → historical fiction → magic realism → neo-slave narrative →
inspiredBy	the historical case of Margaret Garner →
language	English →
listedIn	New York Times survey of the best American fiction of the last 25 years (2006) → Time magazine’s 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005 →
literaryMovement	postmodern literature →
mainCharacter	Baby Suggs → Beloved (the ghostly young woman) → Denver → Paul D → Sethe →
narrativePerspective	shifting third-person viewpoints →
narrativeStyle	nonlinear narrative →
narrativeTechnique	stream of consciousness →
partOfSeries	Toni Morrison’s loose trilogy on African-American history →
precededBy	Song of Solomon →
publicationDate	1987 →
publisher	Alfred A. Knopf →
recognizedAs	one of the most important American novels of the 20th century →
setInPeriod	post–American Civil War era →
setInPlace	Cincinnati, Ohio → Kentucky →
subjectMatter	American slavery → haunting and the supernatural → infanticide →
targetAudience	adult readers →
theme	community → identity → legacy of slavery → memory and trauma → motherhood →

Referenced by (21)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison → Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison → Harpo Films → Toni Morrison →	notableWork
Baby Suggs → Denver → Sethe →	appearsIn
Beloved ("Beloved (1998 film)") →	adaptation
Paul D →	appearsInWork
Paul D ("the haunting presence of Beloved") →	confronts
Jonathan Demme ("Beloved (1998 film)") →	directed
Denver →	firstAppearance
Sethe ("Beloved (1987 novel)") →	firstPublicationContext
American literature →	hasNotableWork
Paul D ("Beloved (character)") →	hasRelationshipWith
Denver →	hasSister
Time 100 best English-language novels list →	hasWork
Toni Morrison bibliography →	includesNotableWork
Beloved ("Beloved (the ghostly young woman)") →	mainCharacter
Jazz (novel) →	precededBy
Tar Baby →	precedesWork