토니 모리슨의 『빌러비드』에 나타난 재기억을 통한 치유와 회복 - 살아남은 덴버를 중심으로 -

Abstract

When Denver was a year old baby, she took her mother`s milk right along with the blood of her sister. We can see this as a symbolic representation. It shows us that Denver is indirectly connected to slavery. Sucking her mother`s breast with the blood of her dead sister indicates that Denver absorbs slavery. In this way, Denver is connected with a painful past. Denver asks her mother, Sethe, what happened in the past and she tells Denver her own story and then Denver reiterates the story to Beloved. Through this storytelling, Denver understands that the pressure of slavery drove a black woman to kill her own lovely daughter. In this way, Denver helps Sethe to heal her trauma, and she connects one generation to another by encountering her mother`s resentful rememory. In this regard, I assert that Denver acts as a promising storyteller and a kind of bridge linking the past and the present in this novel.