eng Toni Morrisson and the translation of history in Margaret Garner Bynum, Leon James article info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2011 Margaret Garner Toni Morrison Agency History Translation Filicide Beloved Opera Agencia Historia Traducción Filicidio Amado Ópera Agència Història Traducció Filicidi Estimat Òpera Doletiana : revista de traducció, literatura i art http://ddd.uab.cat/record/72276 19883366n3p1 oai:ddd.uab.cat:72276 Tots els drets reservats http://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ This article probes how Toni Morrison translates biographical history in Margaret Garner in relation to Black women’s self-determination. Margaret Garner was regarded with both reproach and reverence for murdering her two-year-old daughter to prevent the child from being returned to slavery after they escaped in 1856. Writing the 2005 opera Margaret Garner, Morrison made a number of changes to the historical narrative of the eponymous heroine. The focus of her translation is not on presenting an accurate recountal of history; rather, the goal is to redress the limitations placed on Black women’s self-determination by granting them agency through this interpretation of Garner