ON THE SPACE METAPHOR AND NARRATIVE SIGNIFICANCE IN BELOVED

Morrison is the leading character in Afro-American literature.So far she produces nine long novels.Beloved is her masterpiece with plenty of space images and space metaphors.With the help of space criticism,the paper attempts to analyze the symbolic and metaphorical meanings of important spaces in the novel.The aim is to show the relationship between description of spaces and narrative procession and discover that races should depend on each other and ethnic unity is the only way to establish national subjectivity.