Unruly Narrative
Private Property, Self-Making, and Toni Morrisons A Mercy, American Frictions 6
| ISBN/EAN: | 9783110780345 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Umfang: | VIII, 284 S. |
| Einband: | gebundenes Buch |
Erschienen am
06.09.2022
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 Morrisons 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.
Samira Spatzek, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
