Virginia governor race highlights irony of banning 'Beloved' from schools
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Virginia governor race highlights irony of banning 'Beloved' from schools
Description
“124 was spiteful. Full of baby’s venom.”
These lines open Toni Morrison’s magnum opus “Beloved”and give the reader fair warning that the story is about something haunting. But what “Beloved” represents is a haunting in itself. The novel never lets us forget that the past is ever-present.
That’s part of the reason the book is considered not only part of the canon of Black literature but American literature as a whole. But it’s also why people are trying to keep it out of public schools.
These lines open Toni Morrison’s magnum opus “Beloved”and give the reader fair warning that the story is about something haunting. But what “Beloved” represents is a haunting in itself. The novel never lets us forget that the past is ever-present.
That’s part of the reason the book is considered not only part of the canon of Black literature but American literature as a whole. But it’s also why people are trying to keep it out of public schools.
Creator
Williams, Dana A.
Publisher
NBC News
Date
2021
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Williams, Dana A., “Virginia governor race highlights irony of banning 'Beloved' from schools,” Omeka, accessed June 1, 2026, https://omeka.ischool.utoronto.ca/items/show/752.