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Beloved

textual humanities text book core Lifetime Path planned

Creators

  • Toni Morrison, author

Canon Rationale

A core late twentieth-century American novel, included for slavery, memory, trauma, motherhood, haunting, and African American literary history.

Path

Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 43.

Evidence

  • handbook: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'Beloved'.
  • prize: The Pulitzer Prizes, 'Beloved, by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)'.

Audit Flags

epistemic status required

Completion unit: read the full novel.

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