Abstract

This essay examines Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987) through posthumanist theories of liminal temporality and subjectivity. By positioning her women characters as both mothers and daughters, simultaneously past- and future-oriented, Morrison gestures toward a posthumanistic articulation of becoming-subjectivity. The liminality Morrison puts forward in Beloved suggests that black power need not be rooted solely in the past: the future can serve as an accessible site of authority and resistance as well.

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