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Unruly Narrative : Private Property, Self-Making, and Toni Morrison's ›A Mercy‹ / Samira Spatzek.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: American Frictions ; 6Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 284 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110780574
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No title; No titleOnline resources: Available additional physical forms:
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Contents:
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 -- Works Cited -- Index
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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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 -- Works Cited -- Index

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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 17th-century scene.

Issued also in print.

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