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  1. "Own Yourself, Woman": Toni Morrison s A Mercy, Early Modernity, and Property
    Author: Spatzek, Samira
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Universität Bremen ; Fachbereich 10: Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (FB 10) ; English-Speaking Cultures

    This study puts Toni Morrison s novel A Mercy in conversation with John Locke s Two Treatises of Government (1689), re-visiting the Treatises in light of recent Black Studies interventions in the topos of Western subjectivity. While situating both... more

     

    This study puts Toni Morrison s novel A Mercy in conversation with John Locke s Two Treatises of Government (1689), re-visiting the Treatises in light of recent Black Studies interventions in the topos of Western subjectivity. While situating both the Treatises and the scholarly engagement with them in their historical moment, it develops a post-slavery reading of the early modern conceptions of individual liberty and property by means of A Mercy s characters. ; 57 ; 71 ; Bremen ; 1 ; 1

     
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    Source: BASE Selection for Comparative Literature
    Language: German
    Media type: Article (journal)
    Format: Online
    DDC Categories: 800
    Subjects: early Enlightenment; slavery; subjectivity; John Locke; proprietorship; rhetoric and criticism
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