Assess students' ability to apply feminist and formalist methods to Toni Morrison's Beloved through close readings of selected passages: identify and analyze narrative techniques (e.g., free indirect discourse, polyphony, temporality, silence) and feminist concepts (e.g., intersectionality, maternal subjectivity, gendered trauma), explain how narrative voice constructs and complicates representations of race and gender, cite textual evidence, and evaluate the comparative strengths and limits of feminist versus formalist readings.