A Mothers Love The idea of a ghost story or horror story has long since been introduced into the world of American literature starting in the late 18th century. These works played with the idea of life after death and its effects on the present. The term gothic or gothic horror has been used to describe this form of literature. The literary meaning of the gothic style of is hard to define, but to give …
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…stories of Ma'am. Bibliography Works Cited Kubsitschek, Missy Dehn. Toni Morrison a Critical Companion. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998. History Behind Beloved . 19 Jan 1999. Bontemps, Arna .Great Slave Narratives. Boston: Beacon Press, 1969. Harris, Trudier. Fiction and Folklore: The novels of Toni Morrison .Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1991 Solomon, Barbara H. Critical Essays on Toni Morrison's Beloved . New York: G.K. Hall&Co., 1998. A Past that can not be Forgotten by Shavone White African American Literature Dr. Dudley