Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrisons "Beloved": The Case for Reparations

This is an inspired contribution to the scholarship on one of the most influential American novels and novelists. The author positions <em>Beloved</em> as a meditation on historical justice and re-comprehends it as both a formal tragedy-a generic translation of fiction and tragedy or a "novel-tragedy" (Kliger)-and as a novel of objects.