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Record Nr.

UNINA9910629590403321

Autore

Spatzek Samira

Titolo

Unruly narrative : private property, self-making , and Toni Morrison's A Mercy / / Samira Spatzek

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : De Gruyter, , 2022

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 284 pages)

Disciplina

323.46

Soggetti

Right of property

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

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.