Toni Morrison, Black Matter(s)

"It was not a story to pass on."The sentence is chanted in the last pages of Beloved, published in 1984. Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, defies the ban by telling the brutality of slavery from the point of view of an infanticidal slave, willing to do anything to avoid the horror of her condition to her daughter. Through this seminal work, the film explores the resonances of Toni Morrison's work in an America still struggling with racist violence.