Beloved: The Chaos of the Needy Dead: 78

In which Carla reviews Toni Morrison’s multi-award-winning horror novel Beloved, and the horrific history that inspired it for Black History Month.

Theme song and stinger: “Comadreamers I” by Haunted Me, off their Pleasure album, used with permission
End music: Lapitino, F. J., Anderson, M., Prince, C. A. & Burleigh, H. T. (1924) Go down Moses. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/jukebox-69931/
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The Beloved trilogy:
Beloved by Toni Morrison (Vintage International Edition, the edition I used with Morrison’s introduction) https://amzn.to/3s24c6H / https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781400033416
Jazz https://amzn.to/33FSV2E / https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781400076215
Paradise https://amzn.to/3BJplWA / https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780804169882

The Black Book, ed. Toni Morrison, Middleton A. Harris, Morris Levitt, and Ernest Smith https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781400068487
Margaret Garner: Opera Vocal Score by Toni Morrison https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781480344471

Audiobooks narrated by Toni Morrison:
* Beloved https://amzn.to/33AUf6R
* Jazz https://amzn.to/3h3isG6
* Paradise https://amzn.to/3v3nQAZ
* The Bluest Eye https://amzn.to/3H8GoSO
* Song of Solomon https://amzn.to/3I8bN9g
* Sula https://amzn.to/3h1Izgu
* A Mercy https://amzn.to/3sSPQoq
* Love https://amzn.to/3H4JVlf
* Home https://amzn.to/3s2DsCR
* God Help the Child https://amzn.to/3I883oa
* Who’s Got Game? (A collection of fables written by Toni and her son Slade) https://amzn.to/33zBFfd

Sources:
National Book Award: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paco%27s_Story
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Fiction
New York Times: Beloved Best Book of Last 25 Years (web archive link of article): https://bit.ly/3LSwLv3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Garner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Anderson

My profile at Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/claradox/
Beloved: https://letterboxd.com/claradox/film/beloved/
Spell (2020): https://boxd.it/23H4S1
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