CRITICAL COMMENTARY: The Scholarly Article I chose is Toni Morrison's Beloved: Feminine Mystiques by Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis
The main point was how Morrison wrote so complex and how Sethe was still "enslaved." Physically, no but mentally she was still living through and dealing with the past. "Sethe is a woman who's suffering from the effects of slavery after it happened." p 134 An example of Morrison's readers as they read "Beloved" is as follows. "Being present and taking part of what happens in the present tense of the narration and also having an insider's knowledge about what has already happened". p131
I agree with what the article says and also I have learned a few things as well. The concepts that the characters in the book deal with is "performative panpsychism of the African folklore where everything, a living creature or not, is endowed with spirituality, while on the other hand, for the slave holders these are the monotheistic, pedagogical beliefs of the western Enlightment and Modernity." p127
Morrison does a really good job of addressing slavery as a whole. More often than not, I believe people think that once slavery was abolished the former slaves went on to live normal lives unaffected. However, that's so far from the truth and through the stories of Sethe and Paul D readers become aware that just because the past is left behind doesn't mean it's forgotten.
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