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Online literary criticism of "Beloved"
- Redeeming History: Toni Morrison's "Beloved" Helene Moglen Cultural Critique
- Truth in Timbre: Morrison's Extension of Slave Narrative Song in "Beloved" Peter J. Capuano African American Review Vol. 37, No. 1 (Spring, 2003), pp. 95-103
- Revisions, Rememories and Exorcisms: Toni Morrison and the Slave Narrative Cynthia S. Hamilton Journal of American Studies Vol. 30, No. 3, Part 3 (Dec., 1996), pp. 429-445
- Beloved, She's Ours Barbara Christian Narrative Vol. 5, No. 1 (Jan., 1997), pp. 36-49
- Figurations of Rape and the Supernatural in Beloved Pamela E. Barnett PMLA Vol. 112, No. 3 (May, 1997), pp. 418-427
- Circularity in Toni Morrison's Beloved Philip Page African American Review Vol. 26, No. 1, Women Writers Issue (Spring, 1992), pp. 31-39
- Toni Morrison, Oprah Winfrey, and Postmodern Popular Audiences John Young African American Review Vol. 35, No. 2 (Summer, 2001), pp. 181-204
- Narration, Doubt, Retrieval: Toni Morrison's "Beloved" Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan Narrative Vol. 4, No. 2 (May, 1996), pp. 109-123
- "Beloved: Ideologies in Conflict, Improvised Subjects (also available in JSTOR) Keizer, Arlene R.. 1999. “Beloved: Ideologies in Conflict, Improvised Subjects”. African American Review 33 (1). St. Louis University: 105–23. doi:10.2307/2901314.
- Looking into the self that is no self: an examination of subjectivity in Beloved Holden-Kirwan, Jennifer L.. 1998. “Looking into the Self That Is No Self: An Examination of Subjectivity in Beloved”. African American Review 32 (3). St. Louis University: 415–26. doi:10.2307/3042242.
- Models of memory and romance: the dual endings of Toni Morrison's Beloved Carden, Mary Paniccia. 1999. “Models of Memory and Romance: The Dual Endings of Toni Morrison's Beloved”. Twentieth Century Literature 45 (4). [Duke University Press, Hofstra University]: 401–27. doi:10.2307/441945.
- Morrison's Beloved: Allegorically "Othering" White Christianity Ochoa, Peggy. 1999. “Morrison's Beloved: Allegorically Othering "white" Christianity”. MELUS 24 (2). [Oxford University Press, Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS)]: 107–23. doi:10.2307/467702.
- Slavery and Motherhood in Toni Morrison's "Beloved" Terry Paul Caesar Revista de Letras Vol. 34 (1994), pp. 111-120
