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aisthesis-37	Speight, Amelia	What You Call Yourself?: Nothingness, Naming, Abjection, and Queer Failure in Toni Morrison's Beloved	2017	7	.pdf	application/pdf	5185	219	63	Her master attempts to shame her for this choice, saying that “Mrs. Baby Suggs ain’t no name for a freed negro,” but how can he when she is the one acknowledging and existing in her own dehumanization and presenting to him her nameless nothingness as one of the consequences of slavery and his specific slave-owing? (167). Their chosen names “fail” in many ways, leading me to questions about how Baby Suggs and Stamp Paid resist a dominant narrative and instead find power in, as Jack Halberstam would say, “the refusal of legibility, and an art of unbecoming” (Halberstam 88).	cache/aisthesis-37.pdf	txt/aisthesis-37.txt