Her name was Margaret Garner, and she was born a slave. This story inspired Toni to write the novel. The inspiration behind the story was a newspaper clipping regarding a slave woman’s story of escape in 1856. She started working on this novel in the early 1980s but gave it full-time attention when she left her job. It is the reenacting of the “civilized” life of white slave owners. There were no families, and whites used them like animals. It is a portrayal of slave women who were treated as birth-giving machines and produced as many slaves as they could. It was written in Albany, NY, and published in 1987. Heart of Darkness as a Psychological Novel | Psychological Journeyīeloved was an attempt to make the world feel what freedom meant for black people back then when there was slavery, and now when still there is segregation, though not explicit. Before writing this novel, she left her job there and sensed a feeling of freedom, which she wanted to express in her novel, and thus it came in the form of Beloved. She worked as a teacher as well as a fiction editor at a famous publishing house. Her first novel was The Bluest Eye, which was published in 1970.
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