i was just looking for some scholarly articles about Beloved on the internet and found something truly interesting about the African myth, or tradition, concerning the reincarnation of dead children. the article is "An abiku-ogbanje Atlas: a pre-text for rereading Soyinka's Ake and Morrison's Beloved" by professor Ogunyemi. She actually references Chinua Achebe in her article, which reminds me of his novel Things Fall Apart. he mentions this myth on several ocassions and ties it to other cultural traditions and superstitions in Nigeria. i'm thinking it might be a great material for a paper. i mean shedding light on this whole myth and conducting a comparison between the two novels on this basis and recognize teh different ways Morrison still visits African traditions in her novels.