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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin/Boston
De Gruyter
2022
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| Series: | American Frictions
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| Collection: | Directory of Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Creative Commons (cc), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (284 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9783110780345 9783110780666 9783110780574 |