RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 The pattern of severed mother-daughter bond in Toni Morrison's "Beloved" and "A Mercy" A1 López Ramírez, Manuela A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid K1 Filología Inglesa AB In Beloved and A Mercy Toni Morrison revisits the mother-daughter plot, focusing on the feminine. She explores the female black slave’s appalling oppression through the traumatic separation of a slave mother from her daughter, which destroys the emotional ties between them and causes terrible effects on both their psyches. Morrison describes her heroines’ identity journey from “desertion” to wholeness. The black female slave’s unspeakable ordeal unveils her humanity and courage, convulsing the patriarchal slave system. SN 0210-9689 YR 2014 FD 2014 LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17427 UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17427 LA spa NO ES: Revista de filología inglesa, 2014, N.35, pags.151-170 DS UVaDOC RD 04-oct-2024