Theory and Practice in Language Studies, Vol 2, No 7 (2012), 1491-1497, Jul 2012
doi:10.4304/tpls.2.7.1491-1497

Beloved and Julia Kristeva‟s The Semiotic and The Symbolic

Camelia Talebian Sadehi

Abstract


One of the most important African-American female novelists of the 20th century is Toni Morrison. Her novels consider the blight of the black people in American history. This article intends to focus on Morrison’s Beloved in the light of Julia Kristeva’s theory of the semiotic and the symbolic. As Morrison has written a poetic-fictional text, Kristeva’s the semiotic and the symbolic are applicable in Morrison’s Beloved.


Keywords


Beloved; the semiotic; the symbolic; black people; poetic-fictional text

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