Unruly Narrative Private Property, Self-Making, and Toni Morrison's ›A Mercy‹

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 th...

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Main Author: Spatzek, Samira (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2022
Series:American Frictions 6
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