Table of contents : Contents......Page 8 Introduction......Page 12 The Slave Mother: The Tale of the Ohio......Page 30 Margaret Garner and seven others......Page 34 Daughters Signifyin(g) History: The Example of Toni Morrison's Beloved......Page 46 Beloved: A Spiritual......Page 76 Toni Morrison's Beloved: Re-Membering the Body as Historical Text......Page 88 The Ghosts of Slavery: Historical Recovery in Toni Morrison's Beloved......Page 116 Beloved: Woman, Thy Name Is Demon......Page 136 Remodeling the Model Home in: Uncle Tom's Cabin and Beloved......Page 168 Between Presence and Absence: Beloved, Postmodernism, and Blackness......Page 188 A Conversation on Toni Morrison's Beloved......Page 212 Suggested Reading......Page 230