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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Spatzek, Samira (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : De Gruyter, 2022.
Colección:American frictions ; v. 6.
Temas:
Morrison, Toni. > Mercy > Criticism and interpretation.
Mercy (Morrison, Toni)
Right of property.
Slavery.
Droit de propriété.
property rights.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Right of property
Slavery
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Claims to Freedom: Private Property and the New World Liberal Subject
  • 3 Interrogating Private Property: Black Studies and the Liberal Imagination
  • 4 Practicing Refusal: Narrative Interrogations of the Property Paradigm in A Mercy
  • 5 Coda.

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