02468nam 22005535 450 99648716050331620231110225927.03-11-078057-710.1515/9783110780574(CKB)5700000000110895(DE-B1597)613994(DE-B1597)9783110780574(MiAaPQ)EBC7076311(Au-PeEL)EBL7076311(OCoLC)1341997181(EXLCZ)99570000000011089520220830h20222022 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierUnruly Narrative Private Property, Self-Making, and Toni Morrison’s ›A Mercy‹ /Samira SpatzekBerlin ;Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]©20221 online resource (VIII, 284 p.)American Frictions ,2698-5349 ;63-11-078034-8 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 -- IndexThis 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.American Frictions Right of propertySlaveryLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshbisacshAfropessimism.Black Feminism.Slavery.Toni Morrison.Right of property.Slavery.LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.813/.54Spatzek Samira, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1255065DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK996487160503316Unruly Narrative2910061UNISA