Why Toni Morrison’s Beloved is Both Celebrated and Censored
Toni Morrison’s Beloved
receives acclaim and suppression in equal measure, proving that unapologetically centering Blackness in literature is still controversial in the United States.
Katherine (Hyun-Joo) Mooney (Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 2024) is a historian of independence-era Africa, a web content manager and editor, and a poet. Her writing has been or will be published in the Journal of Popular Music Studies, Africa is a Country, Army History Magazine, Research in African Literatures, Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, The Lantern, and in other forums, such as learning modules in the School of New Africa (SONA) app. In her current role she curates, edits, creates, publishes, and disseminates digital content on a high-visibility government website that receives millions of views every week. She is a former Col. Charles Young Fellow for the Center for Military History in Washington, D.C. Her poems have been published in journals such as Lunch Ticket, The Maine Review, Poets Reading the News, and many others.
Visit her website at https://hyunjookim.squarespace.com/
Toni Morrison’s Beloved
receives acclaim and suppression in equal measure, proving that unapologetically centering Blackness in literature is still controversial in the United States.
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