“Morrison read a news clipping about Margaret Garner while doing research for another book, and she decided to try to imagine what caused a woman to commit infanticide. What does it mean to be a mother to children who literally belong to another person?...What she created was a novel in the tradition of ghost stories, but in which the ghost represents more than just a person returning from the afterlife. The spirit also stands for the estimated sixty million people who died in the so-called land of the free during the time of enslavement.” RacismSlaveryBelovedToni MorrisonWhite Supremacy CultureChattel SlaveryMargaret Garner Book:Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction Source: Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
“Haunted house fictions play upon the complex fears and concerns about domestic issues that women have long grappled with.” HouseholdGender RolesDomesticityHomemakingSecond Wave Feminism Book:Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction Source: Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction