Extending this idea, Morrison’s Beloved (1987) shows how unexamined memory narrows the visible world. Sethe’s “rememory” troubles the present until lifting the corner—naming, facing, and reinterpreting trauma—expands what survival can mean. The past, once flattened into silence, becomes textured and navigable. Thus the horizon shifts not by denial but by reckoning; through remembrance, the sky lifts and reveals a path beyond mere endurance, toward an imagination resilient enough to hold grief and possibility at once. [...]
