Zi-Han Qian

Thing Narrative: A Reading of Toni Morrison's Beloved from the Perspective of New Materialism

: Different from the dominant anthropocentric research paradigm of existing studies on Toni Morrison’s Beloved , which marginalize natural imagery as mere rhetorical ornamentation, this paper adopts a new materialist framework centering on material agency, intra-action, and material hybridity to reinterpret the novel’s...