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

Samira Spatzek

Open Access Veröffentlicht von De Gruyter 2022

Unruly Narrative

Private Property, Self-Making, and Toni Morrison’s ›A Mercy‹

Samira Spatzek

Band 6 der Reihe American Frictions

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110780574

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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 17^th-century scene.

Autoreninformation

Samira Spatzek, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Fachgebiete

Frontmatter Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	I
Acknowledgements Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	V
Contents Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	VII
1 Introduction Open Access PDF downloaden	1
2 Claims to Freedom: Private Property and the New World Liberal Subject Open Access PDF downloaden	26
3 Interrogating Private Property: Black Studies and the Liberal Imagination Open Access PDF downloaden	54
4 Practicing Refusal: Narrative Interrogations of the Property Paradigm in A Mercy Open Access PDF downloaden	99
5 Coda Open Access PDF downloaden	246
Works Cited Open Access PDF downloaden	255
Index Open Access PDF downloaden	279

(English)

Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: De Gruyter
Copyrightjahr: 2022
Zielgruppe: Scholars in the fields of Early American, American Studies, Literary, African American, and Critical Whiteness Studies
Seiten
- Frontmatter: 8
- Inhalt: 284
Schlagworte: USA

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Veröffentlicht: 6. September 2022
ISBN: 9783110780574

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Veröffentlicht: 6. September 2022
ISBN: 9783110780345