Reclaiming the Past: Personal Narratives of Slavery in Toni Morrison's Beloved

The present paper is the study of the newhistoricism and in Toni Morrison's Beloved. It explores the historical narrative with realism. The present work is a personal narratives of slavery are reclaimed through the characters' "re-memories," forcing a reckoning with the trauma of the past and the enduring legacy of slavery on individual and collective identities. It the story of the slave woman Sethe. Morrison's novel delves into the unspeakable horrors of slavery, particularly the sexual exploitation of Black women and the psychological trauma inflicted on enslaved people, which were often omitted or minimized in traditional slave narrative. The present paper studies these themes in the novels.