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• W2146372414 abstract "Many of the characters in Beloved are born into slavery and experience the imposed objectivity of its commodifying ideology. Clearly, as we know from historical and slave narratives, such objectivity does not exclude all possibility of experiencing some degree of subjectivity. In Beloved, however, denial and oppression of black identity by the larger slave-owning society leads to internalization of this colonizing discourse and subsequently to inability for some, and for others a constant struggle, to develop a self-empowered subjectivity when free from physical slavery. Thus, although the end of slavery signals the beginning of a post colonial(1) period for African Americans, their status continues to be defined by slavery's ideologies.(2) The imposed perception of themselves as commodified beings, when internalized, results in their continued struggle to develop empowered, agentive sense of self. In Yearning, bell hooks writes about black subjectivity as an oppositional worldview, a consciousness, identity, a standpoint that exists not only as that struggle which also opposes dehumanization but as that movement which enables creative, expansive (15). For Sethe, Beloved's central character, self-actualization, or the development of subjectivity, can be realized only outside the limits of a discourse and within a collectively defined alternate discourse signifying individual empowerment. This alternative discourse, I argue, is found in the free black community to which Sethe flees. But her subjectivity is realized only when she becomes a full member of her community. Membership depends on both Sethe's and the community's recognition of internalized ideologies of oppression. Morrison's text, then, can be read as postcolonial(3) because it delineates a process of self-liberation through communal support within the context of slavery. In a postcolonial analysis of Beloved, the work of Homi Bhabha(4) and Gloria Anzaldua helps us to read Sethe's self-actualization as a resistive process against objectifying definitions of black identity. Anzaldua's definition of consciousness(5) complements Bhabha's definition of the shifting positionalities within the colonial and the formation of a subjectivity through the fetish and stereotype. For Anzaldua, all women of color have the potential to reflect a mestiza consciousness. As oppressed woman of color, Sethe has this potential. In Sethe, then, the text develops a mestiza character. Together, the theories of Anzaldua and Bhabha serve to recontextualize Sethe's motivations for murdering her child, the subsequent ostracism by her community, her obsessive love for Beloved, and her final release from the ideological confines of commodification. This recontextualization of Sethe's story defines Beloved as a mestiza text. Within the postcolonial framework through which I read Beloved,(6) resisting the perception of self as commodified inferior is part of what Satya P. Mohanty terms decolonization. Developing empowered subjectivity involves learning to define oneself through a perspective uninformed by dominant definitions of black identity. Acquiring a perspective outside of constructs of inferiorized subject positions subverts these constructs and thus decolonizes the self. The process of decolonization is important part of this mestiza text because the main character moves from a limiting counterstance position, signifying a mere inversion of roles, to mestiza consciousness, signifying alternative discourse outside ideologies. Significantly, in Beloved decolonization occurs in a communal context. The book's central characters begin to define themselves against a colonially defined and internalized isolation, fear, or even pride only with the support of others who also have experienced oppression. …" @default.
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• W2146372414 title "Postcolonial Experience in a Domestic Context: Commodified Subjectivity in Toni Morrison's Beloved" @default.
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