Ghosts, metaphor, and history in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Gabriel García Márquez's One hundred years of solitude cover

Ghosts, metaphor, and history in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Gabriel García Márquez's One hundred years of solitude

by Daniel Erickson

This study examines the complex relations between the figure of the ghost--the textual figure of metaphor and history--in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Gabriel Garcia Màrquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
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  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
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