TONI MORRISON, Beloved (Part 2) - On Time and Memory
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- This episode will look at the relationship between time and memory in Toni Morrison's Beloved through the character of Sethe. Sethe tells her daughter Denver about the concept of rememory, which for her means that no event ever dies. But this concept also implies a philosophy of time that is fascinating for the ways in which it binds Time itself to the traumatic events that time is composed of for the former slave.
thank you Dr. Quayson, wonderful analysis. one of the greatest books ever written!
Glad you think so! Much appreciated.
Prof. You are my role model. You inspire me to be great. Jah bless
Jah Love to you too, Kwame. Upwards and onwards!, as your namesake Nkrumah put it. And thanks for the compliment.
This is one type of unique explanation....
I was looking through Beloved lectures for thesis inspiration and stumbled on this video; this was absolutely fantastic. From a high schooler's point of view, this was easy to understand, very informative, and made me think about the novel in ways I never had before. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and insight with the world, I can't wait to watch more videos from you!
HI Karly, I am glad that you found the episodes on Beloved useful for your school work. It is a terrific novel so I am always pleased when other people also enjoy it. Good luck with everything@
Thank you for this informative video series. I really enjoyed it. I think the process of remembering can also be seen in the non chronological structure of the book and also the parts where we seem to be transported to the Atlantic Slave Trade and we can't tell who is who. Your videos helped me think deeper about Beloved and Toni Morrison.
Insightful, thanks a lot
Glad it was helpful!
Deep and close reading of ‘The philosophy of Time and History’ in TMorison’s Beloved. This lecture reminds me of an earlier one you gave years ago on Chronotopes. Can we apply chronotopes to Beloved, Prof?
Yes, Jerome, we can definitely apply the concept of chronotopes to Beloved. Sweet Home Farm is a chronotope, as is also 124. But they serve distinct functions in the novel, and in fact might be said to simultaneously overlap and diverge in terms of the location of the tragic emotions. Thanks for the question.
I love this video, it gave me such a well-rounded idea of the novel and its themes of time and memory. Thank you so much!
Thank you sir. I am Ranjan from India. I am doing PhD on Toni Morrison. Please make a criticism video on Toni Morrison's works. Please
Thank you for this lecture, Prof. Ato. André Brock's work 'Distributed Blackness' asserts Black kairos as a way to understand Black digital formations (such as this podcast): He interprets kairotic time (as moments, or phenomena perhaps) that structure Black discursive meanings. Black Twitter is about the moment, but as digital media, is also timeless if left up on a server. The circular(?) nature of time, or the timeless quality of the experiences in 'Beloved' perhaps render time differently. Is the time your describe here phenomenological? Or is it perhaps 'deep time' -- re-memories of Slave trauma? How are they related? How might a notion of kairos add to the analysis of the enduring time signatures happening in the piece and in other Black Atlantic literatures? I hope I am not being too opaque in this inquiry.
Hi Reginold, I must admit that I am not familiar with Andre Brock's work, but the idea of Black kairos sounds very appealing. However, with specific reference to Beloved time is both phenomenological and "deep". The only problem with the notion of deep time in this context is that the term is typically used to reference the deep time of the earth itself, which requires a different form of knowing that the social sciences have allowed us. So memories in Beloved are deep, but only as products of the social disfunctionalism of slavery. But that is deep enough if we accord it the proper attention.
@@CriticReadingWriting Thank you for this response. And congratulations, I will be following this closely, and referring my students.