“The gap between Africa and Afro-America and the gap between the living and the dead and the gap between the past and the present does not exist. It’s bridged for us by our assuming responsibility for people no one’s ever assumed responsibility for. They are those that died en route. Nobody knows their names, and nobody thinks about them. . . . There is a necessity for remembering the horror, but of course there’s a necessity for remembering it in a manner in which it can be digested, in a manner in which the memory is not destructive.”1
“This is not a story to pass on” (324).
Engaging with relevant ideas from the “History” and “Racial Difference” chapters from Bennett and Royle, answer the following question:
What does Beloved suggest about the responsibility of contemporary readers to remember the history of American slavery?
ensure to:
Organize the analysis around a central argument or“thesis”and provide textual evidence to support its claims.