Join us for an exploration of myth and liminal spaces in Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved. We will examine how the novel’s landscape holds the characters’ grief, connects them to death and the underworld, and helps them transmute trauma. The novel—author Toni Morrison’s fictionalization of the story of Margaret Garner, an enslaved woman who fled to Ohio from a Kentucky plantation with her four children in 1856—earned Morrison the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and was adapted as an award-winning motion picture. It also includes numerous mythic symbols from Greco-Roman mythology, Judeo-Christian tradition, and archetypal psychology, and examines the psychological and social repercussions of a mother’s act of infanticide and what occurs 18 years later when her child’s ghost returns.