The student is quoting from page 187 of the following essay:

Pérez-Torres, Rafael. “Between Presence and Absence: Beloved, Postmodernism, and Blackness.” Tony Morrison’s Beloved: A Casebook. Ed. William L. Andrews and Nellie Y. McKay. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 179-201. Print.

Amy describes the scars on Sethe’s back as a tree, which, as suggested by Rafael Pérez-Torres, transforms “the signs of slavery…into an image of fruition instead of oppression.” (187)

Amy describes the scars on Sethe’s back as a tree, which, as suggested by Rafael Pérez-Torres, transforms “the signs of slavery…into an image of fruition instead of oppression” (187).

When a quotation is run into the text of a paper, the parenthetical citation appears after the quoted material and before the sentence period.

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