Rememory & the Tale of the Sixty Million and More
Rememory & the Tale of the Sixty Million and More In Toni Morrison's Beloved , Sethe introduces her concept of rememory. According to her, rememory is the idea that people's experiences and memories are forever imprinted or imbued upon objects, places, and other tangible and intangible indicators, similar to supernatural beliefs in spirits. Sethe asserts that even though the person that underwent the experience forgot about it or died, they or those connected to them could still encounter and re-experience that past event. Using this idea of rememory, Sethe and Morrison seem to redefine our common perception of the past and history. Employing this concept, this blog post aims to interpret Morrison's use of rememory in the final chapter of Beloved . In the last chapter of the novel, Morrison depicts Beloved's disappearance from history. She describes: They forgot her like a bad dream....