From the Same Tree: Gender and Iconography in Representations of Violence in Beloved
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved capitalizes on the simultaneous gender neutrality and semantic multiplicity of tree images associated with rape and lynching in order to eschew any hierarchy of black oppression, which might privilege riveting instances of male victimization (lynching) as the emblem of...
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University of Chicago Press, The
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72362 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2706-9481 |