Abstract
Beloved appears to create many connections within the theme of “Mémoire: héritages et ruptures” as the author focus on the individual footprint and inheritage of black slavery in the United States. Across the personal story of a fictional character named Sethe, we meet the true heavy burden of slaves' collective memory. While in most textbooks, the topic has been mostly introduced from the white viewpoint, we deal here with the confused and painful black memory recollection. The novel embraces thus a mixed style of realism, supernatural and typical black folklore to create a unique kind of individual as well as collective remembrance of these “sixty million and more” slaves whose suffering individual paths remain closed and are here mentioned by Morrison who dedicates her novel to them. The sensitive approach of the characters' fate generates a close interaction with the protagonist's trauma, guilt and fate.
