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

"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. --- Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilyleblanc.com --- Resources: Beloved (1998 Film) Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beloved_(1998_film) Beloved: The Best Horror Novel the Horror Genre Has Never Claimed by Grady Hendrix https://www.tor.com/2016/02/18/beloved-the-best-horror-novel-the-horror-genre-has-never-claimed/ Black Horror Rising BY TANANARIVE DUE https://uncannymagazine.com/article/black-horror-rising/?fbclid=IwAR2_acNtT-tCRsQ30f17jrzuTVmYpCsio-wGvAIkX2Nm5mHQyI55UaviH7E Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’: A Gothic Classic of Black Horror Media by Donyae Coles https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3578911/toni-morrisons-beloved-gothic-classic-black-horror-media/ “Should ‘Beloved’ Be in the Black Horror Film Canon?: An interview with two Black women horror creators, Tananarive Due and Robin R. Means Coleman” by Juliana Ukiomogbe https://zora.medium.com/should-beloved-be-in-the-black-horror-film-canon-7e523a419c90 AFRICAN AMERICAN FOLKLORE, MAGICAL REALISM AND HORROR IN TONI MORRISON NOVELS by Sumiko Saulson https://mochamemoirspress.com/uncategorized/african-american-folklore-magical-realism-and-horror-in-toni-morrison-novels/ Horror in the 90s: The Southern Gothic by Ashlee Blackwell https://www.graveyardshiftsisters.com/2014/01/horror-in-90s-southern-gothic.html The Horrors of Remembrance: The Altered Visual Aesthetic of Horror in Jonathan Demme’s Beloved by Ellen Scott https://www.colorado.edu/gendersarchive1998-2013/2004/09/01/horrors-remembrance-altered-visual-aesthetic-horror-jonathan-demmes-beloved Slavery, Human Cruelty, Survival, Horror, Maternity and Rememory : Translating “Beloved” to the Screen by Matty Stanfield https://mattystanfield.com/2015/07/25/slavery-human-cruelty-survival-horror-maternity-and-rememory-translating-beloved-to-the-screen/ African American Gothic: Screams from Shadowed Places by Maisha L. Wester https://books.google.com/books?id=wmKKOzK422QC&q=Beloved#v=snippet&q=Beloved&f=false Searching for Sycorax: Black Women's Hauntings of Contemporary Horror by Kinitra D. Brooks https://books.google.com/books/about/Searching_for_Sycorax.html?id=F3BADwAAQBAJ Mother/Daughter Relationship: Psychological Implication of Love in Toni Morrison’s Beloved https://www.ajol.info/index.php/lwati/article/view/46583 “Analyzing Relationship of Sethe and Denver as Mother and Daughter Relationship in the Novel Beloved Written By Toni Morrison” by Debora Tambun https://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/ ''Motherlove was a Killer:'' Mother-Daughter Relationships in A Mercy and Beloved by Chrysa Titi https://www.academia.edu/11978901/Motherlove_was_a_Killer_Mother-Daughter_Relationships_in_A_Mercy_and_Beloved Mothering Violence: Ferocious Female Resistance in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, and A Mercy by Amanda Putnam https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.5406/blacwomegendfami.5.2.0025.pdf?ab_segments=0%252Fbasic_SYC-5187_SYC-5188%252Fcontrol THE RETURN OF THE SISTER: SISTERHOOD AND BLACK FEMALE SUBJECTIVITY IN TONI MORRISON'S "BELOVED" by Su-lin Yu https://www.jstor.org/stable/44325441?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Among Women: Toni Morrison's Mothers, Sisters, and Daughters. By Hazel Ruth reames Caillouet https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7469&context=gradschool_disstheses