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

• VerfasserIn: Spatzek, Samira,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: American Frictions Ser.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 284 p.)
• Other title: 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
• ISBN: 3110780577
• ISSN: 2698-5349
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Samira Spatzek.

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.