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For my digital project I will be taking a look at the actions prompted by love in Toni Morrison's Beloved. In other words I plan on presenting how love acted as a catalyst for many major events in Beloved.  For me this is an expansion on my close reading assignment where I argued Sethe's overbearing love for Beloved served as her tragic flaw. I plan on using Padelt for my visual representation because I find that it will suit my ideas better than other digital platforms. When dealing with love as a catalyst, there are many layers to its understanding. First I plan on exploring the different types of love that are displayed throughout the novel. After that I intend on going a bit deeper in discovering how each type of love is connected to each character. Finally I plan on connecting both of those categories into a final category which will be a major event that has taken place. Padelt will serve me well because my idea of visual representation will be a pyramid shape, beginning with love at the top and trickling down into the specifics. I have met with librarian Joelle Thomas who assisted me in finding supplementary articles pertaining to either the theoretical component of love its self or the role of love in Beloved.

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My final conference paper will analyze Beloved as a post-apocalyptic (PA) novel. To be clear, I am not trying to make the case that the novel can only be read as PA, or even that it is best read in this way; only that reading the novel through the conventions and analytic lens of PA fiction sheds light on its message and Morrison’s larger intentions as author. This will involve a fair amount of definition and reimagining of “apocalypse” and an explanation of the typical tropes of PA fiction. Beloved contains several levels of potential psychological and sociological apocalypse - Beloved’s traumatic death, the breakdown of family and social structures within the confines of enslavement, the hundreds of years of slavery itself – and the attempts at survival in their wake. One of my major concerns will be time; how can a novel set in the past adhere to a genre typically concerned with the future (near or distant)? I also plan to explore the amorphousness of race and its continual reconstitution and adaptation to social change – why would race not be as important (if not more important) in a collapsed society than in a complex one? I hope that my project sheds light on the long-lasting, catastrophic effects of enslavement on our world (perhaps on par with an ecological disaster or pandemic – common fare for PA fiction) while bolstering PA fiction’s image as a legitimate and powerful mode of social critique.

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Pedagogy Proposal
Healing in Beloved

Proposal Topic:

My project will be the pedagogy project in which my course I am designing centers around the topic of healing in Beloved. I will take an intersectional approach as I focus on demonstrating how Morrison lays out the healing journey with each of the main characters, how Beloved, the novel itself, by reading and engaging with the novel can serve as an act of healing, and further how African traditions and retentions can be found within Beloved regarding healing.

Specific Questions I plan to examine:

How does Morrison present healing? What are each of the characters own healing journeys and where throughout the novel do we see evidence of healing?

How does Beloved, the novel itself, serve as a broader form of healing? How does Morrison use story-telling as a way to offer healing? What does Beloved encourage the reader to do while reading the novel?

What African traditions and retentions regarding healing can be found in Beloved? Why does Morrison call upon African traditions? Is remembering traditions rooted in culture a form of healing?

Significance of the potential findings and insights I hope to generate:

I hope that the course I will design that focusses on healing shows the many ways in which healing can occur, and also gives appreciation to healing rooted in tradition. I hope that my course will illuminate not only how each character in Beloved goes through a healing journey, despite suffering immensely in parts of the novel, but also how Morrison crafted Beloved in such a way that a type of healing is allowed for the reader to experience. I want to show how Beloved serves the people who read it, and touches us, and this was by intention. Further, I hope my course can also draw upon African traditions and retentions used by Morrison in the novel, and potentially demonstrate how the act of remembering these traditions is a form of healing in itself. I feel this allows for a different perspective into Beloved that might not be examined as often, but I think it ties perfectly into the concept of healing, especially because Morrison greatly emphasizes the act of rememory as a step towards healing, and I think that drawing upon African traditions and retentions falls under this notion.

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I have created a lesson plan draft that can be found in the link below that explains the direction of my project, initial ideas for the lesson plan I will create ( 12th grade level) and the intended outcomes.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HAw3Ko7X-d0Iz4hcgIHey-yAl4aCKz-z/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=116788513007557983638&rtpof=true&sd=true

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Draft of Proposal for Final Project.docx

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In my digital project, I plan to explore the importance of color in Toni Morrison's Beloved. Toni Morrison herself once said, "[there] is practically no color whatsoever in its pages, and when there is, it is so stark and remarked upon, it is virtually raw." I plan to display these raw expressions of color on a digital color wheel through a Prezi presentation. Prezi will allow me to display the entire color wheel, while simultaneously allowing me to zoom into each color. Within each color I plan to demonstrate and show different depictions of color through different mediums (a book cover for red, a quote for yellow, a movie clip for green, etc.). Through many different mediums I hope to convey the importance of color as a literary technique and Morrison's use of this technique in Beloved.

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In my pedagogy project, I will create a college-level course for high school students. The course will begin by reading Toni Morrison's Beloved and will continue with a semester-long seminar on Black Feminism and love as a political tool. Like an American Study course, the class with be interdisciplinary and will showcase films, book excerpts, and academic articles on the topic of love and Black feminism. 

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In my pedagogy project, I will create a college-level course for high school students. The course will begin by reading Toni Morrison's Beloved and will continue with a semester-long seminar on Black Feminism and love as a political tool. Like an American Study course, the class with be interdisciplinary and will showcase films, book excerpts, and academic articles on the topic of love and Black feminism. 