Beloved and Julia Kristeva's the semiotic and the symbolic

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. © 2012 ACADEMY PUBLISHER Manufactured in Finland.