Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison’s "Beloved" : The Case for Reparations (Hardcover)

Foreword: Too Many, Too Quiet, Too Long; or, "Anything is better than the silence" One: Remembering Is Not Forgetting; or, History Is in the Texts of It Two: Tragedy and Its Props; or, History Is in the Things of It Three: Literary Memory and the Amnesiac Nation; or, "The rest is weather" Four: Bodies [sic] Matter; or, "Certainly no clamor for a kiss" Five: The Powers of Intertextuality, the Spectre of Reparations; or, Three Tragedies and a Critique of the American Slave State Afterword: First Things, Lost Things; or, The Purloined Name and the Necessity of (Postcolonial) Failure Coda: Impossible Things; or, "I've had enough of shitty news"