Driven toward madness : the fugitive slave Margaret Garner and tragedy on the Ohio /
The story of Margaret Garner-the runaway slave who, when confronted with capture, slit the throat of her toddler daughter rather than have her face a life in slavery-has inspired Toni Morrison's Beloved, a film based on the novel starring Oprah Winfrey, and an opera.
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| Language: | English |
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Athens, Ohio :
Ohio University Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | New approaches to Midwestern studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: bodies and souls
- "Hope fled"
- Before the blood
- After the blood
- "Faded faces" tell secrets; or do they?
- Driven by madness, badness, or sadness?
- A kind of hero.