Beloved is the work of a famous American writer-Toni Morrison, which told us how a black female slave named Sethe who was tangled by her dead daughter killed by her. By examining the construction of female black slaves’ subjectivity construction, this passage proposed there are three stages in Sethe’s subjectivity construction. She firstly experienced lots of oppressions which pushed the forming of her self-consciousness. Then she took actions to fight against the so-called destiny and gained the subjectivity. Three stages not only show the consciousness-production of Sethe, but also reveal the history-the miserable sufferings of black slaves. 

Qianqian Li. Three Stages in the Construction of Sethe’s Subjectivity in Beloved. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2021), Vol. 3, Issue 9: 44-46. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2021.030908.

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