Unruly Narrative
Private Property, Self-Making, and Toni Morrison’s ›A Mercy‹
Abstract
This study deals with the formative powers of modern liberal ideas of private property. The liberal subject emerged with the formations of European liberalism, Atlantic slavery, and settler colonial expansion in the New World. Toni Morrison’s A Mercy is thus identified as a key literary text that generates a fundamental critique of the connections between self-making and private property at its 17th-century scene.
Keywords
Afropessimism; Black Feminism; Slavery; Toni MorrisonDOI
10.1515/9783110780574ISBN
9783110780574, 9783110780345, 9783110780666, 9783110780574Publisher
De GruyterPublisher website
https://www.degruyter.com/Publication date and place
Berlin/Boston, 2022Imprint
De GruyterSeries
American Frictions, 6Classification
Literature: history and criticism
General studies and General knowledge