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“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.”

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Book:Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

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“Haunted house fictions play upon the complex fears and concerns about domestic issues that women have long grappled with.”

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Book:Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

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