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    Eroticism’s dual role in beloved by toni morrison: a feminist and anticolonial perspective.
    (Universidad de Playa Ancha Ciencias de la Educación, 2025) Labbé Huerta, Valentina Isabel; López Riveros, Maura; Facultad de Humanidades
    The purpose of this research is to analyze Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved through the concept of eroticism as a dual narrative resource. Eroticism in this novel is a topic that has a double function, since it works as a representation of memory linked to trauma and violence and at the same time as a channel for healing and resistance. The main characters of the book are black women, former slaves that have endured the brutality of slavery while others have not. Morrison interlaces eroticism with violence, presenting images of trauma such as perverse physical and sexual abuse. The author also connects eroticism with forms of empowerment when conducted by desire, intimacy and communication. The latter can become a channel to rebuild broken bodies and identities by extending the possibility to recover the self, not only sexually, but also emotionally, socially and culturally. Besides, orality plays an important role as it gives the characters the possibility of expiation after being the embodiment of abjection. Both oral speech and re-memory become sources of self-expression, healing and reconnection with a community and their common history, also symbolizing the embracement of African oral traditions and folklore in the novel. Utilizing concepts from scholars like George Bataille, Frantz Fanon, bell hooks, Angela Davis, Walter Mignolo and others, this analysis reviews the interrelations an anticolonial thinking, specifically from decolonial studies with black feminism in order to understand their contribution alongside eroticism in Beloved, a text that reclaims black female subjectivities through the reimaging of their bodies and identities. Morrison makes political choices on her representation of the black female body, exploiting eroticism as a disruptive form of resistance against colonial heritage. Key words: eroticism, body, trauma, memory, anticolonialism, feminisms.