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## #BELOVED Introduction: I. Summary of major characters A. Beloved Ghosts In portraying the capacity of the past to haunt individual and community life in the present, Beloved brings into daylight the "ghosts" that are harbored by memory. Beloved, the powerful ghost in the novel, stands for every African woman whose story will never be told. She is the haunting symbol of the many Beloveds. She moves with the freedom of an omnipresent and omnipotent spirit who weaves in and out of different generations. Beloved is rooted in a particular story and is the embodiment of specific members of Sethe's family. It is also at this time where she represents the spirit of all women dragged onto slaveships in Africa. As Deborah Horvitz states, "Beloved stimulates Sethe to remember her own mother because, in fact, the murdered daughter and the slave mother are a combined identity represented by the ghost-child Beloved." from Deborah Horvitz's essay, "Nameless Ghosts: Posession and...

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