The Journal of Scientific Psychology is a peer reviewed free-access electronic journal.
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2012
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Motherhood in Toni Morrison’s Beloved: A Psychological Reading
Sandra Mayfield
University of Central Oklahoma
Toni Morrison's Beloved is a novel about motherhood and
mothering. Specifically, it is a book about the slave woman as mother. The
events of the novel, set in the first half of the nineteenth century when the
slave population in the United States had increased significantly, narrate the
fortunes and misfortunes of Sethe, an African slave confined to a plantation in
Kentucky named Sweet Home. The owners of the plantation were a childless couple
named the Garners. Sethe, unlike most African slave women, had a measure of
control over her future on this plantation. She had the option of selecting one
of the five slave men on this plantation as her husband and the good fortune of
bearing his four children and planning the future for herself and her family,
options that few other slaves possessed. Because of her owners and their
relatively compassionate views toward their slaves, Sethe, a courageous and
daring woman, dared to imagine a future in which her children could escape the
bondage of slavery.
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