Ep. 78: BELOVED (1998) - You're Your Own Best Thing

Published: Sept. 22, 2020, 9 a.m.

b'"The horror is history..." This week your favorite ghouls discuss Oprah Winfrey and Jonathan Demme\'s film version of Toni Morrison\'s prize winning novel, Beloved (1998). Topics include but are not limited to The horrors of the past: slavery, trauma and ghosts, Southern Gothic horror, mothers and daughters, and sisterhood.\\n---\\n\\nThanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilyleblanc.com\\n\\n---\\n\\nResources:\\n\\nBeloved (1998 Film) Wikipedia\\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beloved_(1998_film) \\n\\nBeloved: The Best Horror Novel the Horror Genre Has Never Claimed by Grady Hendrix\\nhttps://www.tor.com/2016/02/18/beloved-the-best-horror-novel-the-horror-genre-has-never-claimed/ \\n\\nBlack Horror Rising BY TANANARIVE DUE\\nhttps://uncannymagazine.com/article/black-horror-rising/?fbclid=IwAR2_acNtT-tCRsQ30f17jrzuTVmYpCsio-wGvAIkX2Nm5mHQyI55UaviH7E \\n\\nToni Morrison\\u2019s \\u2018Beloved\\u2019: A Gothic Classic of Black Horror Media by Donyae Coles\\nhttps://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3578911/toni-morrisons-beloved-gothic-classic-black-horror-media/ \\n\\n\\u201cShould \\u2018Beloved\\u2019 Be in the Black Horror Film Canon?: An interview with two Black women horror creators, Tananarive Due and Robin R. Means Coleman\\u201d by Juliana Ukiomogbe\\nhttps://zora.medium.com/should-beloved-be-in-the-black-horror-film-canon-7e523a419c90 \\n\\nAFRICAN AMERICAN FOLKLORE, MAGICAL REALISM AND HORROR IN TONI MORRISON NOVELS by Sumiko Saulson\\nhttps://mochamemoirspress.com/uncategorized/african-american-folklore-magical-realism-and-horror-in-toni-morrison-novels/ \\n\\nHorror in the 90s: The Southern Gothic by Ashlee Blackwell\\nhttps://www.graveyardshiftsisters.com/2014/01/horror-in-90s-southern-gothic.html \\n\\nThe Horrors of Remembrance: The Altered Visual Aesthetic of Horror in Jonathan Demme\\u2019s Beloved by Ellen Scott\\nhttps://www.colorado.edu/gendersarchive1998-2013/2004/09/01/horrors-remembrance-altered-visual-aesthetic-horror-jonathan-demmes-beloved \\n\\nSlavery, Human Cruelty, Survival, Horror, Maternity and Rememory : Translating \\u201cBeloved\\u201d to the Screen by Matty Stanfield\\nhttps://mattystanfield.com/2015/07/25/slavery-human-cruelty-survival-horror-maternity-and-rememory-translating-beloved-to-the-screen/ \\n\\n\\nAfrican American Gothic: Screams from Shadowed Places by Maisha L. Wester\\nhttps://books.google.com/books?id=wmKKOzK422QC&q=Beloved#v=snippet&q=Beloved&f=false \\n\\nSearching for Sycorax: Black Women\'s Hauntings of Contemporary Horror by Kinitra D. Brooks\\nhttps://books.google.com/books/about/Searching_for_Sycorax.html?id=F3BADwAAQBAJ \\n\\nMother/Daughter Relationship: Psychological Implication of Love in Toni Morrison\\u2019s Beloved\\nhttps://www.ajol.info/index.php/lwati/article/view/46583\\n\\n\\u201cAnalyzing Relationship of Sethe and Denver as Mother and Daughter Relationship in the Novel Beloved Written By Toni Morrison\\u201d by Debora Tambun\\nhttps://www.google.com/amp/s/deboratambun.wordpress.com/2012/11/09/analyzing-relationship-of-sethe-and-denver-as-mother-and-daughter-relationship-in-the-novel-beloved-written-by-toni-morrison/amp/ \\n\\n\'\'Motherlove was a Killer:\'\' Mother-Daughter Relationships in A Mercy and Beloved by Chrysa Titi\\nhttps://www.academia.edu/11978901/Motherlove_was_a_Killer_Mother-Daughter_Relationships_in_A_Mercy_and_Beloved \\n\\nMothering Violence: Ferocious Female Resistance in Toni Morrison\'s The Bluest Eye,\\nSula, Beloved, and A Mercy by Amanda Putnam\\nhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.5406/blacwomegendfami.5.2.0025.pdf?ab_segments=0%252Fbasic_SYC-5187_SYC-5188%252Fcontrol \\n\\nTHE RETURN OF THE SISTER: SISTERHOOD AND BLACK FEMALE SUBJECTIVITY IN TONI MORRISON\'S "BELOVED" by Su-lin Yu\\nhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/44325441?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents \\n\\nAmong Women: Toni Morrison\'s Mothers, Sisters, and Daughters. By Hazel Ruth reames Caillouet\\nhttps://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7469&context=gradschool_disstheses'