Morrison's Use Of Defarcation In Beloved

Throughout the text, Morrison presents healers who accept others and reach beyond self. Besides the title character, Morrison offers another beloved: Amy Denver, the often-ignored young white woman marginalized by society. In a novel about the evils of slavery where it would seem easy enough?and perhaps entirely logical?to draw a line of demarcation between black and white as between protagonist and antagonist, reader take care: in Morrison's artistic hands, nothing is ever quite what it appears at first glance. It may seem ironic, in a novel so obviously about the African slave experience, even to bother about a white girl whom Morrison directly devotes only about fifteen pages of the novel's 275, and to whom critics devote even fewer?indeed,