... and down trodden poor souls." The music within the novel "Beloved" presses upon the reader's own emotional boundaries by presenting to us the treatment of slaves through an entirely different medium; not only through language but through sound; through the "soul" of those who give their voice melody. It further accumulates within Toni Morrison's poetical style, symbolising the repression of slaves, but paradoxically, ... non-people and are as alive as jazz with their quiddity and idiosyncrasy." The past and the present are not separate within "Beloved"; they appear as a single entity, wi...

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