Eroticism’s dual role in beloved by Toni Morrison: a feminist and anticolonial perspective.

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dc.contributorMagíster en Literatura
dc.contributor.advisorLópez Riveros, Maura
dc.contributor.genderFemenino
dc.contributor.otherFacultad de Humanidades
dc.contributor.sponsorUniversidad de Playa Ancha Ciencias de la Educación
dc.coverage.spatialChile, Región de Valparaíso, Valparaíso
dc.creatorLabbé Huerta, Valentina Isabel
dc.date.accessioned2026-09-03T15:09:49Z
dc.date.available2026-09-03T15:09:49Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractThe 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.
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dc.identifier.urihttps://dpl-repositorio.upla.cl/handle/20.500.15012/598
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversidad de Playa Ancha Ciencias de la Educación
dc.rightsAcceso abierto
dc.rights.accessRightshttps://creativecommons.org
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectNovels
dc.subjectLiterary style
dc.subjectLiterary analysis
dc.subjectWomens liberation movement
dc.subjectNovela
dc.subjectEstilo literario
dc.subjectAnálisis literario
dc.subjectMovimiento de liberación femenina
dc.subject.odsODS: 05
dc.subject.oecd1nHumanidades
dc.subject.oecd1nHumanities
dc.subject.oecd2nIdiomas y Literatura
dc.subject.oecd2nLanguages and Literature
dc.subject.oecd3nEstudios Literarios / Literatura Norteamericana y Crítica Decolonial
dc.subject.oecd3nLiterary Studies / American Literature and Decolonial Criticism
dc.titleEroticism’s dual role in beloved by Toni Morrison: a feminist and anticolonial perspective.
dc.typeTesis Magíster

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